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1765: The Coventry Hangings

by Caducus

Member since 2002 · Posted 5 Sep 2007 · Edited 5 Sep 2007 · 2 comments

Within three eyes were blossom and horsehair, 'Pippin' death knells reached a moaning cart where six damned eyes of Coventry blue, would weave themselves white. Through the thousand crowd a barotone nobleman, greeted them by name damned them by moniker, then lips and lifelines pressed before the glockenspiel ascent to death. Within three eyes were 'Baker', 'Drury' and 'Leslie'. A yarn of heads tried to pray God replied in Gibbet, and the slow motion ladder brought August to three buds of our 'Cofa' tree.

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[n/a] Caducus 5-Sep-07/5:26 AM Reply
Pippin and cofa are indiginous trees of coventry 'cofa tree' was where coventry derived.

After these hangings they were treated to a coating of hot tar and left to rot for 35 years - Coventry justice has never been the same since lol.
[n/a] Caducus 5-Sep-07/5:27 AM Reply
oh and 'coventry blue' was the colour renowned that coventry weavers produced until the early 20th century.