{"id":18678,"date":"2024-01-25T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=18678"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:14:05","slug":"18678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/25\/18678\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Maid of Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth Barton was also known  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As The Mad Maid of Kent <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was executed at Tyburn <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For pissing off Henry the Eighth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She must have upset him a great deal Tyler <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes she did but initially he just let it ride <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the rantings of a madwoman <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Elizabeth continued to persecute him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So he ordered her trial <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After she was hung her head was chopped off <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not nice <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But worse was to come <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Could it get any worse for the poor girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes her head was placed on a spike on London Bridge <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it still there <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will pretend I did not hear that Alma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is the only woman in history <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To receive that honour <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a way it was an early form of gender equality <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is all you hear about these days to the point of tedium <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And there it was for all to see in 1534<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose you have a point Tyler <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have such a good understanding of history <br><br><br><br><br>From Travels with Tyler and Alma Wat (2024) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Barton was also known As The Mad Maid of Kent She was executed at Tyburn For pissing off Henry the Eighth She must have upset him a great deal Tyler Yes she did but initially he just let it ride As the rantings of a madwoman But Elizabeth continued to persecute him So he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18678"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18690,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions\/18690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}