‘ERE COME (AND EAR GO) THE TYRANNICAL TUDORS!
Meet John Thomas, the partly earless 16th century ex-launderer of monks’ habits, wondering where York’s St Mary’s Abbey has gone.
The York Dungeon’s new ‘Tyrannical Tudors’ show, opening on 4 April, promises some rip-roaring merriment as well as bringing those on the receiving end of King Henry VIII’s wrath vividly to life.
If you were impoverished in Tudor times and begged in the wrong part of York, you could expect to be whipped, lose part of an ear or even incur the death penalty – especially after Yorkshire’s rebellion during Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries – which
