Thursday, August 25, 2005

The Worst Jobs in History - Tudor

And you thought your job is bad . . .

In honor of the upcoming Renaissance Fair (Saturday, 27 August 2005, Washington Park), we offer you a glimpse of the worst jobs in Tutor England.

Britain's Channel 4 has a web site that briefly describes the worst jobs in 2,000 years of British history, from Roman/Anglo-Saxon days through Victorian.

For the Tutor era, eight execrable jobs are described, including two that dealt with excretion: the monarch's groom of the stool and gong scourer/farmer.

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