Cordelia Beattie · @CordeliaBeattie
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Today is the #7thDayofChristmas. Instead of 7 swans a swimming, how about this story?
In August 1644, on the way to help her sister in labour with her penultimate child at Middleham Castle, 18-year-old Alice Wandesford (later Thornton) and her horse almost drowned in the river, but 'the poor mare drew up her forefeet & I perceived she did swim' (Book 1). She got to the birth uninjured.
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Tamsin Lewis · @Passamezzo
134 followers · 28 posts · Server historians.social
31 December is the #7thDayofChristmas, and #NewYearsEve.
Here is an #anonymous #17thCentury 'country' #dance of that name from Playford's Dancing Master, 1686.
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