The basic fare was two properly baked loaves of bread daily. Other foods were prescribed at different times of year but varied according to the rank of the injured person. Nobles were to have salt-meat daily from New Year’s Eve to the beginning of Lent, garden herbs only during Lent, salt-meat twice a week from … Read more
Across 1 Spanish galleon that ran aground off Lacada Point, Co. Antrim, in 1588 (6). 5 Fanny ———, Russian political revolutionary and an attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin (6). 10 He was the last Anglo-Saxon archbishop of Canterbury (7). 11 Operation Rolling ———-, name given to sustained United States aerial bombardment campaign during the Vietnam … Read more
Across 1 North Italian monastery founded by Columbanus in AD 614 (6). 5 English hospital notorious for the ill-treatment meted out to the mentally ill in the eighteenth century (6). 10 This bay was the location of the Sea Horse tragedy in 1816 (7). 11 Site of modernised Norman castle in County Meath associated with … Read more
cross 1 A celebrated chalice was discovered here in 1868 (6). 4 This hospital was founded in 1839 to care for sick Protestants (8). 9 He served as Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland in the seventeenth century (6). 10 Ian Smith served as its prime minister from 1964 to … Read more