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January 13, 2016

A medieval (horse) tragedy in Shropshire

Posted on 13 January 2016 by Helen Nicholson

Alas! In 1311-12 one of the two affers or draught animals at the Templars' commandery at Lydley in Shropshire fell ill with quodam morbo in nervis, an unidentified disease of […]

The Templars at Bristol

Posted on 13 January 2016 by Helen Nicholson

Keepers accounts for Bristol 1309-13 in full Everyone who has ever travelled through Bristol Temple Meads is aware that the Templars owned land in Bristol, and Beatrice Lees's edition of […]

Salving the sheep at Cowley and Horspath in 1308

Posted on 13 January 2016 by Helen Nicholson

On Wattpad you can find the ingredients for the sheep's salve used on the Templars' sheep at Cowley and Horspath in Oxfordshire in spring 1308: white grease, quicksilver (the metal […]