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  • Immortal Meals #28: Freedom and Chicken March 29, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
    Immortal Meals #28: Freedom and Chicken

    The date, sometime in the 1440s; the place, the English village of Long Newnton in what is today Gloucestershire; the meal, a table of chicken; the host, Thomas Carter; the occasion, Thomas’s freedom. Thomas Carter had been born a bondsman sometime in the 1370s  around the time Richard II was crowned king and the first […]