{"id":158,"date":"2016-01-13T20:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-01-13T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:20:21","slug":"a-medieval-horse-tragedy-in-shropshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/a-medieval-horse-tragedy-in-shropshire\/","title":{"rendered":"A medieval (horse) tragedy in Shropshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas! In 1311-12 one of the two affers or draught animals at the Templars&#8217; commandery at Lydley in Shropshire fell ill with <em>quodam morbo in nervis<\/em>, an unidentified disease of the sinews, or the nerves &#8212; or simply meaning that it lost all its strength. A <em>mareschal<\/em> or farrier was called in to care for it, at a cost of two shillings and 11 pence, but there was no hope: the animal died.<br \/>\nIts carcase was sold for seven pence, and a replacement affer was obtained from the former Templar manor of Stanton Long, so that there were still two at Lydley at the end of the year. The accounts for 1311-12 add that during the sowing the two affers and 18 oxen ate 6 and a half quarters of oats &#8212; so at Lydley the ploughing was done by both horses and oxen, and obviously two horses were needed to pull a plough.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_66\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2015\/10\/Lydley-Penkridge-IMG_1218-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2015\/10\/Lydley-Penkridge-IMG_1218-small-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo copyright Nigel Nicholson\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2015\/10\/Lydley-Penkridge-IMG_1218-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2015\/10\/Lydley-Penkridge-IMG_1218-small-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2015\/10\/Lydley-Penkridge-IMG_1218-small-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penkridge Hall, on the site of the former Lydley commandery<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFor more about Lydley, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/2015\/12\/02\/finding-henry-the-templars-in-britain-after-july-1311\/\" title=\"below\">below<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,29,87,43,28],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knights-templar","tag-health-care","tag-horses","tag-knights-templar","tag-ploughmen","tag-shropshire"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/knightstemplarsestates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}