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Folks at the top of Grouse Mountain in 1906

North Vancouver, BC

Credit: MONOVA

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Margery Jourdemayne was born sometime before 1415. Where she was born, her maiden name, and who her parents or family were is unknown, as is her early life; she only starts to appear in records after her marriage to William Jourdemayne. He came from a well to do family of yeoman and they lived in Acton. What her own education was is unknown, but from the 1430s on, she spent a lot of time in the company of different scholars and respected clerics; considering her lowly status, this is most unusual. She was said to make potions and predict the future and counted the Duchess of Gloucester and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, among her clients. In 1430, Margery had been one of seven women imprisoned for a time for an unspecified offence concerning sorcery; it is possible she was making herbal remedies for the sick. She was released, however, without charge for good behaviour and on the condition that she no longer practice witchcraft.

Margery was most known among the ladies of the court for providing spells, love potions and concoctions for bringing about a pregnancy or ending one. In 1441, Margery got caught up in the trial of Eleanor Cobham when it was mentioned that Eleanor had called upon Margery for a spell to conceive. She was also accused of making a wax figure of King Henry VI in order to cause him harm. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided over a church court, and she was found guilty of treason and sentenced to be burned at the stake at Smithfield. The sentence was carried out on October 27, 1441.

Sources:

Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville, Gemma Hollman.

https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/2019/10/halloween-special-margery-jourdemayne.html

[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2004.08.001](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2004.08.001?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3WmGTepD2q2UyDrwh3tINFeuZ6nKH6R-NIJ1pp__X4MR864nMjbNUmG8M_aem_Adn0cW5YCcBX_JoSACoPjkL-1VxWDdlKtjkc97t7RR-2wU57Y85pdHi-SP9NEvaCbmxXiPh_7Qe2mtgK3ZyQUf9Z)

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A lacy carpet of spider webs on heather.

- Photo taken at dawn in Abernethy Forest, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland

by Mark Hamblin/Shutterstock

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Some of Grandma Mary Fisk's beautiful tatting collection.

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Thinking about the lives of my beloved Grandparents who were born at this time… with love, respect and perspective ❤️🙏✨ #love #perspective #respect

"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass."

~ Diane Carter

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“I use beef shin - and carrots. Back in my great-Gran's day (& no doubt her great-Gran's too), how you made it (shin or trotter, carrots or without carrots) depended on what parish you lived in. My Gran & Nanny, and other families too, used to take their beanjar to the L'Islet bakery to cook in the oven overnight. The next day my family ate it for lunch - to you youngies out there, most people ate a cooked lunch as opposed to a cooked tea years ago! I still make beanjar and always the same recipe as my great-Gran's which was passed to my Nanny which was passed to my Mum”

- Jackie Osborne Williams

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-Flowers and hens in front of a farmhouse-

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-The Cemetery Entrance-