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Tag Archives: Shropshire and Staffordshire
Drink and food
I’ve commented in an earlier post on cheese produced on the Templars’ estates, and on the porridge produced for the farmworkers. Other food and drink listed in the accounts for these estates include cider and bacon. At Upleadon in Herefordshire, … Continue reading
A Templar found: Henry of Halthon
… in fact, he wasn’t really lost, only mislaid after July 1311. We all knew he was sent to a monastery in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, but which monastery? The answer is ‘St Peter’s Shrewsbury’, and I explain … Continue reading
The Knights Templar in Shropshire
As I have now completed the first draft transcription of the accounts for the Templars’ former estates in Shropshire and Staffordshire, I have put up pdf files of the transcriptions here: http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/knightstemplarsestates/2015/11/03/the-accounts-for-the-templars-estates-in-shropshire-and-staffordshire-1308-9-and-1311-13/ Penkridge Hall, Shropshire, on the site of the … Continue reading
A tragedy at Lydley
I have been blogging on my ‘Knights Templars Estates’ page about a sick horse at Lydley commandery in 1311-12, as described in TNA E 358/18 rot. 54. What does an estate manager do when half the motive power of the … Continue reading
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Tagged arable, health care, Horses, Lydley, Shropshire and Staffordshire, Stanton Long
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Let them eat porridge!
I have been blogging on my ‘Knights Templar estates’ blog about the food allowances that were paid to the Templars’ former farm labourers: oat porridge and various mixtures of grain.
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