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Rough Latin, rough justice. I winced when I read Bill's dog-Latin. The only real description of the murder, in 1326, of Edward II at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire reads thusly:
Cum veru ignito inter celanda confossus ignominiose peremptus est.
I'll bet that made his eyes water. Local legend has it that his screams could be heard for miles around. Not hard to imagine, really. Ouch!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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