"The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells is coming to dinner. That was one of the hand painted slogans written large on the gates of Berwick on Tweed, Elizabeth One's northern border fortress.
"Scrub that damned thing off" shouted the Gate Captain, "If he sees that we'll all be having sweetbreads on toast for breakfast".
"What are sweetbreads Captain?"
"Testicles son…..testicles and it'll be our testicles we'll be eating, now get scrubbing".
Fortunately for them the Bishop had taken a detour and was visiting some of his smaller estates in the North of England. His landholders and their tenant farmers hadn't been able to send his rents south. They claimed the money had been sent, but the Border Reivers had taken the lot…"
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