In uk.misc,  (JAF) wrote in ::

>On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:57:05 퍝, Marc Wilson
> wrote:
>
>>In uk.misc,  (Dave Budd) wrote in ::
>>
>>>In article <1cndqttw1vzen.1u93zk69t4m9j$.dlg@40tude.net>, 
>>>watercress@spamcop.org says...
>>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:42:56 퍝, Dave Budd wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> > In article <g3d5kd$1ms$5@anubis.demon.co.uk>, Huge@nowhere.much.invalid 
>>>> > says...
>>>> >> On 2008-06-18, Dave Budd  wrote:
>>>> >>> In article , august@kororaa.com 
>>>> 
>>>> <snup>
>>>> 
>>>> >>> Saw an ep of The Supersizers last night. Now wish I'd watched it proper, 
>>>> >>> it was very funny. Esp the Surprise Pie - a dozen live frogs in a pastry 
>>>> >>> case.
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> Hence "Four and twenty blackbirds".
>>>> >> 
>>>> > That was mentioned.
>>>> 
>>>> In the case for the defence?
>>>> 
>>>Apparently, as the monarch moved from noble house to noble house, there 
>>>was a sort of arms race to see who could lay on the "best" spread. 
>>>I /think/ the 4&20BBS outranked the dozen frogs, but.
>>>It got so silly people were building complete new houses for the 
>>>festivities - or so it was claimed. Possibly it was a tax dodge, or they 
>>>didn't want that sort of party in their real house.
>>
>>A Royal Visit, if sufficiently prolonged, could be used as a punishment.
>
>ISTR a story referring to, I think, Henry VIII, who had an intense dislike
>of some particular aristocrat, but nothing to pin on him that was worthy of
>punishment.  So, he got his entourage together (a couple of hundred,
>including all the servants, the hangers-on, and their servants), and turned
>up at the victim's home for a couple of month's hunting and partying.  Then
>again a couple of months later.  And again at Yuletide, until the poor bloke
>was thoroughly skint, and had to sell up. 

His daughter certainly used this approach with Dudley.
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Marc

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:55:44 +0100, Marc Wilson
 wrote:

>In uk.misc,  (JAF) wrote in ::
>
>>ISTR a story referring to, I think, Henry VIII, who had an intense dislike
>>of some particular aristocrat, but nothing to pin on him that was worthy of
>>punishment.  So, he got his entourage together (a couple of hundred,
>>including all the servants, the hangers-on, and their servants), and turned
>>up at the victim's home for a couple of month's hunting and partying.  Then
>>again a couple of months later.  And again at Yuletide, until the poor bloke
>>was thoroughly skint, and had to sell up. 
>
>His daughter certainly used this approach with Dudley.

That could be the one I was only vaguely remembering.
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