Item 7 in a BBC article on Ten strange ways Tudors died
Tudor-style mad cow disease took the form of a "madd cow" belonging to William Cheills of Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire. A man walking through the fields in March 1557 was attacked by the cow, which gored him to death with her horn [just the one?]. The victim's name was Robert Calf.
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4 comments:
I just goes to show that our bovine adversaries have been fighting a very long war.
RA, but we started it, and so far we are ahead by a ratio of a million to one.
Ancestor of Paul Calf?
JH, and indeed of Pauline Calf.
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