{"id":151,"date":"2016-01-13T20:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/?p=151"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T15:34:14","slug":"salving-the-sheep-at-cowley-and-horspath-in-1308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/salving-the-sheep-at-cowley-and-horspath-in-1308\/","title":{"rendered":"Salving the sheep at Cowley and Horspath in 1308"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a title=\"Wattpad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/205779941-the-knights-templar-in-oxfordshire-cowley-and\" target=\"_blank\">Wattpad<\/a> you can find the ingredients for the sheep&#8217;s salve used on the Templars&#8217; sheep at Cowley and Horspath in Oxfordshire in spring 1308: white grease, quicksilver (the metal mercury) and verdigris. The mercury and verdigris would have acted as strong antibiotics, while the grease held the chemicals together and made them stick to the sheep. But the mixture can&#8217;t have been kind to the sheep&#8217;s hide &#8212; or to the hands of the humans who rubbed it on!<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere\u00a0the sheep-rub was a little kinder: at Swanton in Bedfordshire in the period 3 December 1308 \u201318 June 1309 grease and tar were bought for the sheep (E 358\/18 rot. 24) and at Chelsing in Hertfordshire\u00a0between 9 February and 18 July 1308 grease and &#8216;tarpitch&#8217;\u00a0were used (E 358\/18 rot. 24 dorse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,87,27,66],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knights-templar","tag-health-care","tag-knights-templar","tag-medieval-farmworkers","tag-sheep"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}