Tudor Encyclopaedia
Langdale School
Have you ever wondered about
what the Tudors did in their spare
me?
Tudor Encyclopaedia
How were diseases treated and
cured?
Where did the Bindloss family live in
Tudor mes?
Find out the answers to these quesons, and many more besides, and
see some fantasc photographs of
the children from Langdale School
learning about Tudor life.
This encyclopaedia was
compiled by Langdale
Juniors aer vising
Levens Hall and Borwick
Hall in September 2011.
Take a look inside to
found out about bleeding
chairs, fleas, quills and
much more...
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Was- Langdale Tudor Encyclopaedia WorWashing clothes: in Tudor mes
the way of washing clothes was
very different to nowadays.
Wee from the chamber pot was
le for two or three days, then
the dirty washing was washed in
it, then it was taken to the freezing cold river and wash all of the
wee off. As it sll might smell,
they put bags of dried orange
peel and lavender amongst the
clothes to make them smell Above: a chamber put, that might have
nice.
been used to store wee that was used for
washing clothes.
Watch Tower: the watch tower was a
look-out place to watch for enemies,
especially the Scots. When an army
was coming the person in the tower
would tell his army to defend the castle.
Le&: the watchtower at Levens Hall is the
oldest part of the building, and was there
even before the Tudors.
Wormwood: was used to keep insects away,
such as lice, fleas and bedbugs. The Tudors
just grabbed some, and hit it against their
smelly hands. The creatures hated the smell
and would go away.
Arc- Langdale Tudor Encyclopaedia BedArchery: a sport the Tudors used for hunng and
wars.
They went in the deep
dark forest to hunt for
wild boar and deer. Tudors used a bow and arrow. They would pull back
the string, aim and let go.
Tom Burke loosing an arrow.
Barber surgeon: was a barber who cut people’s hair and also had the job of surgery,
which was mainly amputaon. This meant
cu/ng different parts off people’s bodies.
This was very painful as there was no anaesthec in those days.
Right: barber’s diagram of the body.
Below: a straw ma*ress on a bed.
Beds: in Tudor mes the
ma0resses were made of
straw. Wealthy people had a
four poster bed. At night
people would say ‘sleep
ght, don’t let the bed bugs
bite’ because of the straw
ma0ress.
Ble- Langdale Tudor Encyclopaedia CoaBleeding chair: these were used for people in the Tudor
mes who felt a li0le ill. Someone would put a leech on
the paent in the chair. The chair was lent back because you had to stay in the chair for twenty four
hours, as you might feel faint with losing blood.
Emilie Beston waing for Dr Ma*hias to explain her treatment in
the bleeding chair at Levens Hall.
Borwick Hall: a large, mainly Tudor
house in North Lancashire. It was
owned by the Bindloss family at the
mes of the Tudors. It is now an
outdoor educaon centre. Langdale
CE School visited it to help learn
about Tudor life in September 2011.
Langdale School children play Tudor games
such as Nine Mens Morris and Shove
Ha’penny at Borwick Hall.
Coat of arms: the Tudors fought
for their coat of arms. It was like
their badge. Their coat of arms
was white and red. They joined
up the Lancashire and the Yorkshire rose to make the Tudor
rose.
Sho- Langdale Tudor Encyclopaedia TreShove Ha’penny: is a game where
you have coins that you shove
along a board. Every me you land
on a line on the board you get three
point. You also need to try to knock
other players’ coins off the board.
Right: intense concentraon on the
board. Mr Lunn looks on having
lost to Giselle Meschino.
Tarred cup: this is a big leather cup
that has tar on the inside of the cup,
because the leather is not waterproof but the tar is. The poor only
drank old ale. Fortunately, the tar
made it taste sweeter.
Trencher: ist was a plate
made out of wood. Somemes it was fried in hot
oil to clean it. Posh people put salt in the small
hole in the corner.
At the banquet, the children had trencher bread.
Pri- Langdale Tudor Encyclopaedia RecPriest Hole: it was a li0le room that was
oen made in a wealthy Tudor house.
They did this because they were forced
to pray for the Protestants but some
people sll wanted to pray for the Catholics. so they hid a Catholic priest in a
secret room and called it a priest hole.
The Langdale Juniors pracsed hiding at
Borwick Hall by playing sardines there.
Dol- Langdale Tudor Encyclopaedia GamWooden doll: a wooden doll was
bought without clothes. A li0le
girl would be taught to sew and
make beauful dresses toput
them on the doll. They had to
make anything they wanted for
it.
Gambling: gambling was a
way to win money. The cards
looked like nowadays cards,
and Levens Hall was lost in a
games of cards by the Bellingham family, who had to
sell the house to raise money.
Right: was there a secret priest hole at
Borwick Hall?
Quill: a shaped, feathered pen. It had a
slit down one side like a fountain pen nib
now. To style it you would have to pull out
some of the barbs so that the barbs were
not all the way down. The point would be
sharpened with a pen-knife.
Recorder: a recorder was
used for live music at a banquet.
Wealthy people
bought recorders in all
different sizes. They could
be over 1 metre long, and
could be less than 10cm.
Right: a collecon of recorders.
Fabienne Meschino wondering what will happen now that the Ace of Hearts has
been dealt in the library in Levens Hall.
Goat’s blood: in Tudor mes, there
were a lot of fleas, but there was a
way to get rid of them. Tudors put
goat’s blood under beds because
the fleas would drink the blood and
not the human blood.
Right: a flea looks like this.
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Leather ball: the leather ball was
made of a pig’s bladder. It was a
throwing game. It was too delicate to kick.
Marigold petals: in Tudor mes these were
used to prevent fungus
growing in people’s feet.
The petals were put in
cold water, and then
placed in socks and
shoes.
Levens Hall: this house is
owned by the Bagot family. In
Tudor mes, it was gambled
away by the family that owned
it. When the Ace of hearts
came up, it meant they had to
sell the house. It has world famous topiary in the gardens.
Lute: is a musical instrument from the
Tudor era. It has 15 strings because
players plucked two at a me to make a
chord. The back of the lute is round, not
flat like a guitar. The neck of lots of
stringed instruments have a tuning device, and it is bent at an angle on a lute.
Elizabeth Dodd playing a lute in the Great Hall,
Borwick Hall.
Lost in the willow maze at Levens Hall.
Maze: a maze is where you could
get lost but only rich people could
afford them in their gardens. They
grew them in very big gardens and
were made of box or yew trees.
The modern one at Levens Hall is
made of willow.
Nine Men’s Morris: this
was a si/ng down Tudor
game. It was a leather
board game. There were
li0le bits of po0ery to play
with. To win, you’d need
to make a line of three
pieces.
Isla Hamilton and Daniel Sanderson taking a
break from Nine Men’s Morris.