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Originally Posted by Doug
Ok, so the monks of Church didn’t get beheaded by Cromwell, it’s just a childhood myth told to us “me” by our “my” grand parents. I think the romance and darkness of our childhood myths made our childhood much more interesting than the isolating environment of play station groupies of today.
What are your memories of local myths and legends of your childhood?
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There's a lot of "blurring" with the history of the Middle Ages. The Bloody Assises/The Monmouth Rebellion and Judge Jeffries - the Hanging Judge. Beheadings, Hanging, Drawing and Quartering and all that grisly stuff prevalent at that time. Deportation if you were a lucky one.