8 March -Henry VIII receives a leopard and Sir Nicholas Carew’s sticky end
Joel | March 8, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 8th March 1516, Sir John Wiltshire wrote to King Henry VIII from the English territory of Calais warning him that a couple of gifts were on their way to the king from the Duke of Ferrara. The gifts were a courser (a horse) and a “lebard” (a leopard or […]
