[ANSTHRLD] trial by combat [was: baronial service orders]
Diane Rudin
serena1570 at yahoo.com
Wed May 9 23:26:07 PDT 2007
Daniel of the Many Spellings wrote:
> It made my Urban Legend Detector twinge. If it was so celebrated,
> why
> didn't the writer cite it? Also, I have a hard time believing that
> Parliament would be called into an emergency session just for that.
It WAS a celebrated case. I've got reams of stuff in my paper about
the public reaction to the case, the pamphlets published pro and con,
the Parliamentary debates, and *Ivanhoe*. (Yeah, it ties in.
Really.)
Sometimes there is a grain of truth in Urban Legends. One.
Sometimes.
--Serena
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