Might not have had any choice in the matter. If she was the freedwoman of Barates she'd have been his slave to begin with. (View Post)

Or even earlier, like Barates the Palmyrene Geordie. https://blog.twmuseums.org.uk/the-regina-tombstone/ "This is the tombstone of Regina from the tribe of the Catuvellauni, freedwoman and wife … (View Post)

Given the problems which Mrs C had on getting a Government Gateway account and then a taxpayers' account before she could prove she existed and deal with the tax she had paid for decades, there's a b… (View Post)

You mean, like Colditz was a "royal* palace". *Electoral, I think, but am hazy ... (View Post)

The donor might have kept the fishing rights and farmland, for all I know. Potentially lucrative and wasted on the average pol anyway (especially if they were only there for weekends). Interesting an… (View Post)