The Winchester Goose

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Getting a dose of the clap was referred to as being ‘bitten by a Winchester goose’ or getting ‘goose bumps’. The humour, no doubt, intended to detract from the sometimes dire consequences. There was no effective treatment and death was long and slow – often leading to insanity. Constable says that later the same night, “the Goose” took him on a walk through the Southwark streets, whispering more poems, plays and songs in his ears, until the strange tour ended in a vacant lot. According to Constable, he didn’t know the lot contained Cross Bones until several years later. In fact, Constable insists that on that night in 1996, he had never heard of Cross Bones at all. Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida V x: Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade, Some two months hence my will shall here be made; It should be now, but my fear is this, Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss.

maritima, whose dense rosettes do look a little like goose tongues, I guess. Honestly, I’ve no clue about this one. Set in Tudor times, during the latter years of the reign of Henry VIII, 1540, the book uses first person and, to commence, four different voices to tell a tale of love, lust, hope, marriage, desperation, loss and tragedy. The main protagonist is Winchester Goose, Joanie Toogood (great name) who, due to the death of her parents when young, gained responsibility for her two younger siblings turning to the oldest and only profession available to her as a single woman of a certain class. Big of heart, popular among locals and with oodles of common sense, Joanie is a delight. When she falls for the rather shady but young and dashing Francis Wareham, a gentleman who seems to stumble from bad choice to poorer ones, her life changes. But so does that of two other women from a completely different class who also encounter the dashing courtier: Evelyn Bourne and her sister Isabella. The plaque was removed. Another appeared in its place and also removed. Some unknown soul climbed the fence and planted a small, wild garden. Friends of Cross Bones Graveyard bonded together to protect, recognize and honour those buried without comfort or care. Small notes and memorials appeared on the cemetery gates…names, dates, prayers, candles and occasionally, bottles of gin.

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She lives on the coast of West Wales where she writes both fiction and non-fiction based in the Medieval and Tudor period. Her main focus is on the perspective of historical women but she is currently writing a novel from a male perspective, that of Henry VIII himself. station up to the river – was considered to be outside the jurisdiction of both London and Surrey, and fell under the authority of the Bishop of Winchester. For a few hundred years it After the public complained that the overcrowded cemetery offended public health and decency, Cross Bones was closed in 1853 on the grounds that it was “completely overcharged with dead.” An 1832 letter from parish authorities had noted the ground was “so very full of coffins that it is necessary to bury within two feet of the surface,” and that “the effluviem is so very offensive that we fear the consequences may be very injurious to the surrounding neighborhood.” (At the time, people feared the city’s burgeoning population of foul-smelling corpses was partly responsible for the city’s cholera epidemic. The true culprit, the water supply, was discovered later.) The land was sold for development 30 years later, but the sale declared void under the Disused Burial Grounds Act of 1884. Locals resisted further attempts at development, although the land was briefly used as a fairground, until complaints about the showmen’s “steam organs and noisy music” became overwhelming. Down an unremarkable side street in Southwark, London, is a fenced lot filled with broken concrete slabs, patches of overgrown grass and the odd piece of abandoned construction equipment. Its dark history and iron gates separate this sad little patch from the outside world. Lengths of ribbon, handwritten messages and tokens weave a tight pattern through the bars of the rusty gates … all tributes to the 15,000 Outcast Dead of London. Cross Bones is a disused post-medieval burial ground on Redcross Way in Southwark, south London. [2] Up to 15,000 people are believed to have been buried there. It was closed in 1853.

a b c Lovejoy, Bess (21 October 2014). "The London Graveyard That's Become a Memorial for the City’s Seedier Past", Smithsonian.com. Mercurius Democritus 3-10 Aug. 89: A most gallant harbour for small Frigots, out of which issued forth a small Vessel [...] laden with Winchester Geese. The Winchester Goose is a slang term used for prostitutes in Southwark, London, during the days of Henry VIII. Amid the historical drama of Henry's marriages, is the fictional story of Joanie Toogood, a typical, run-of-the-mill prostitute, plying her trade. One of three sisters, Joanie does what she must to survive, but discovers a tragic love with one of her clients, who's a dubious character, himself. When a bizarre tragedy strikes, Joanie's sense of humanity is tested like never before, and she adopts a mysterious young woman, who has fallen prey to a tremendously awful situation. In caring for Eve, Arnopp crafts a striking character transformation, and Joanie becomes a motherly, loveable woman who will do anything to provide for her family--ANYTHING. Within the heart of this novel is a song of sisterhood and the redemption and acceptance of a person, regardless of societal status.

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Hausner, Sondra L. (18 July 2016). "The spirits of Crossbones Graveyard: time, ritual, and sexual commerce in London". Bloomington: Indiana University Press – via Internet Archive. However, the more respectable etymology source Online Etymology Dictionary disagrees with this etymology: The prostitutes of Bankside became known as Winchester Geese and a dose of goosebumps became a euphemism for contracting venereal disease. A gaggle is the collective noun for geese, seemingly derived from the sound they make. It’s also been used to describe groups of humans, especially if they’re Oh, this is a good medicine for my aching bones! Oh world! World! World! In this way the poor servant is hated! Oh traitors and matchmakers, how honestly are you made to work, and how badly are you rewarded? Why should people love what we make possible, but hate us when we do it? What poem can describe this What argument can I used to object to this? Let me see: [Singing]

Hughes, Kathryn (12 August 2017). "Watling Street by John Higgs review – the myths and stories of Brexit Britain". The Guardian. the word “sauce” instead of “good”. I’ve no idea where the idea of cooking someone’s goose comes from, nor why anybody thinks that a goose step

was the go-to place to find a prostitute South of the Thames, because the Bishop would license them to be able to trade there. These prostitutes were known as Winchester geese. As a result, to be This is, at least, how it started out in the late medieval period. During this time, the local prostitutes were known as “Winchester Geese”. These prostitutes were not licensed by the City of London or Surrey authorities, but by the Bishop of Winchester who owned the surrounding lands, hence their namesake. The earliest known reference to the Graveyard was by John Stow in his Survey of London in 1598: This book was well written, not over descriptive and the characters are nicely developed through the various events that they endure. For those interested, The Winchester Geese was the collective name for the prostitutes who worked this part of London, hence the title refers to Joanie. I liked the way the author shows the gritty side of Tudor London and the hard life that these women endured, along with the risks that they took on the job. We also see that the rich Court that everyone wanted to attend was just as deadly for hooking you up with the wrong men and losing your head at the whim of the King. I’m an author, a history teacher, an experienced speaker – and an enthusiastic life-long-learner. I’m a member of the Research Committee of the Richard III Society and a library volunteer where I lead a Creative Writing group. I regularly give talks to groups and societies and attend history events as a costumed interpreter. I write for a variety of history magazines and have created seven online courses for http://www.MedievalCourses.com Cross Bones is a place of complex modern rituals, meant to remember the women and children buried here, as well as mark recent history.

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Concanen, Matthew; Morgan, Aaron (1795). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark. London: J. Parsons. p.261. I have heard ancient men of good credit report, that these single women were forbidden the rights of the Church, so long as they continued that sinful life, and were excluded from Christian burial, if they were not reconciled before their death. And therefore there was a plot of ground, called the single woman’s churchyard, appointed for them, far from the parish church.” end of the year to some of the migratory birds goose, the same kind of thinking that gave us “barnacle geese” could be seen as an explanation for gooseberries’ name, too. But really: Though rusted, the iron gates surrounding Cross Bones graveyard are festooned with ribbons, feathers, beads and other tokens commemorating those buried there. A plaque honoring “The Outcast Dead” was added in 2006, a more permanent version of a plaque said to have originally been placed on the gates by a group of Londoners in 1998. And every year since then, right around Halloween, these Southwark pilgrims re-enact a ritual drama to remember those whose final resting place is in Cross Bones, particularly the many prostitutes who are said to have been buried there during the Middle Ages.