Comments on: The Poisoner’s Art http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2010/02/20/the-poisoners-art/ "Poison is everything and no thing is without poison" - Paracelsus Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:47:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robin Gleaves http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2010/02/20/the-poisoners-art/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Robin Gleaves Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:47:11 +0000 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/?p=825#comment-597 Back again, just spotted (whilst looking for something else) that the Poisoning Act was in 1530 not 1531. This year also saw, inter alia, the Aliens Act, the Bridges Act, the Butchers Act and the Egyptians Act! See: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:List_of_Acts_of_Parliament_of_the_English_Parliament#1531_.2823_Hen._VIII.29 Back again, just spotted (whilst looking for something else) that the Poisoning Act was in 1530 not 1531.

This year also saw, inter alia, the Aliens Act, the Bridges Act, the Butchers Act and the Egyptians Act!

See:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:List_of_Acts_of_Parliament_of_the_English_Parliament#1531_.2823_Hen._VIII.29

]]> By: Robin Gleaves http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2010/02/20/the-poisoners-art/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Robin Gleaves Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:40:21 +0000 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/?p=825#comment-326 Leon I am keen to avoid my post being seen like that xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/386/ So I must explain that I am a bit of a Henry VII fan and when I saw the story I was interested to find another new fact about him. I quickly realised the date error when I clicked through. HVII is so often overshadowed by HVIII and consequently he is not as widely known about. For example, he turned down Columbus' brother Bartholomew's request to fund 'that' expedition, long before funding Cabot. He had to fight off rebellion and two pretenders, was the first British monarch to issue gold sovereigns, amongst many other things. To top it off, Francis Bacon wrote his biography. Leon

I am keen to avoid my post being seen like that xkcd comic:
http://xkcd.com/386/

So I must explain that I am a bit of a Henry VII fan and when I saw the story I was interested to find another new fact about him. I quickly realised the date error when I clicked through.

HVII is so often overshadowed by HVIII and consequently he is not as widely known about. For example, he turned down Columbus’ brother Bartholomew’s request to fund ‘that’ expedition, long before funding Cabot. He had to fight off rebellion and two pretenders, was the first British monarch to issue gold sovereigns, amongst many other things. To top it off, Francis Bacon wrote his biography.

]]> By: Leon http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2010/02/20/the-poisoners-art/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Leon Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:17:44 +0000 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/?p=825#comment-297 Robin: Thanks for pointing out that correction. It was indeed Henry VIII, who ruled from 1509- 1547. Robin: Thanks for pointing out that correction. It was indeed Henry VIII, who ruled from 1509- 1547.

]]> By: Robin Gleaves http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2010/02/20/the-poisoners-art/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Robin Gleaves Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:33:15 +0000 http://www.thepoisonreview.com/?p=825#comment-296 Interesting stuff. There is a minor mistake in the SMH article taken from the Telegraph's article* It wasn't Henry VII, he died in 1509, but his more famous son, Henry VIII. * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7231018/Poison-An-alarming-revival-of-a-dying-art.html#postComment Interesting stuff. There is a minor mistake in the SMH article taken from the Telegraph’s article* It wasn’t Henry VII, he died in 1509, but his more famous son, Henry VIII.

* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7231018/Poison-An-alarming-revival-of-a-dying-art.html#postComment

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