Kinda puts the Eleanor Crosses in a new light when you realise that the shrine to Little St Hugh (d.1255) endorsing Blood Libel was probably built and funded as part of the same royal campaign in the early 1290s. (Edward had expelled the Jews from England 18 July 1290) https://twitter.com/DrJACameron/status/1300043903199064067

Remember Lincoln Cathedral was where Eleanor's viscera were entombed, so it's the first stop on the procession to Westminster. Henry III was a gullible moron but Edward knew what he was doing giving alms to the shrine

Little St Hugh was started by the chapter of Lincoln Cathedral endorsing it, but it was really John de Lexington who got it taken to court. He got the chief suspect, Copin, to confess under immunity, but King Henry just revoked his immunity and he was executed. Plan all along.

That said King Henry did use the confiscated land from the Jewish convictions to pay off debts to his brother, Richard Earl of Cornwall, so maybe he wasn't just the sweet little idiot I always think of him as

Often thought about why the Crown spent thousands of pounds on what were essentially, free crosses for villages, but they were really a strong-arm display of Edward I's authoritarian rule: declaring war on just about every kingdom in sight, and expelling the Jewry to help fund it

Little Hugh was just an 8-year-old son of a widow, Beatrice, who fell into a cesspit attached to the Lincoln Jew Copin's house. He was discovered 29 days later during an important marriage ceremony, and they were so terrified of blood libel accusations they dumped Hugh in a well.

he's still under here as far as I know. which used to have this over it, before it was smashed down in the Civil War occupation of the Cathedral after the siege of Lincoln May 1644.

Oliver Cromwell's protectorate readmitted the Jews in 1655, incidentally.

nazi punks

fuck off

I think the original fash site I pinched this off has gone now. I didn't censor the faces (they're the cowards), but I should've archived the whole page. sorry

i seem to remember the page had an account of how a cathedral canon told them to get the fuck out with their bullshit. oh well. at least I've kept this photo of them draping a crypto-swastika in the public realm eh