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News from Frampton Cotterell WI The second lockdown has of course meant that we As always, watch this space and our Facebook have still been unable to meet in person, however page for dates and more details. the committee continues to meet monthly on Zoom How we all wish that we can meet up again soon to discuss ideas to keep things moving within our WI. over a meal and a natter at one of our lovely local It may be a little quieter than normal in terms of pubs – fingers crossed! socialising and events, however Frampton Cotterell We would like to take this opportunity to wish all WI member Georgina Moore Winterbourne and Frampton has recently given us all good Matters staff and readers a reason to smile! very Happy Christmas – and Georgina has brought some all the best for an improved great news at a time when we outlook for 2021! could all do with it – she has a Under normal circumstances, record out with the other 2019 visitors and new members BBC Sports Personality of the are welcome to our monthly Year Unsung Heroes, with the meetings at St Peter’s Hall one and only Rick Astley – it's on School Road at 7.45pm, called ‘Every One of Us’ and is on the fourth Tuesday of the in aid of Children in Need. The month. There is a charge of

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News from Winterbourne Medieval Barn Just as we were getting into the swing of things Tell Trails – A Medieval Christmas – The Advent again, lockdown #2 arrived and the planned events family activity day, has been rescheduled to have had to be postponed. The November talk has Saturday 19th December. Families can join Matilda been rolled on to next March, but the December and her family as they prepare midwinter festivities one, Magic in Medieval Communities, has been at the Barn. Activities typically last a couple of hours moved just one week from 1st to Tuesday 8th and are aimed at families with children aged 5–12, December at 7pm. Dr Tabitha Stanmore will talk although pre-schoolers are welcome to join in. The about how magic and the supernatural were a part cost is just £5 per family. Pre-book your arrival time of everyday life in medieval England, and she will slot between 10am and 3pm. explore how magic was used, trusted or feared, Covid rules allowing, the regular monthly Tea and and affected community relationships, by looking at Tour Open Afternoon will take place on Thursday common spells and beliefs of the time. Tickets are 3rd December at 2pm. Enjoy a cuppa while you £5 and must be pre-booked. Tea, coffee, cake, and hear all about the history of Winterbourne Medieval wine will be available. Barn, then take the opportunity to look around the The Barn is a covid-secure venue, with limited whole of the recently renovated site. Tickets are £5 numbers, social distancing and contract tracing in and must be booked in advance. place. Adults are asked to wear a face-covering On Saturday 5th December there is a fun and except while eating or drinking. All events must be informal morning workshop to learn how to make a pre-booked on Ticketsource via the Barn website. beautiful and reusable Fabric Christmas Wreath. Please remember, the Medieval Barn can be chilly It is led by Amy from Bath Artists Studios and costs at this time of year, so wrap up warm! £30 including all materials and tuition. Festive For those who would rather not go out and about, mulled wine and mince pies will also be supplied. Relaxthe Trust will also be live-streaming the talk online. We cannot hold the normal this Carols in the Barn Bookings for this are also required in advance via year because of covid, but Fromeside churches will the Barn website. film their Christmas drama in the Barn without an audience and put this online for all to join in from Sunday 20th December at 3pm. So, get your mulled wine and mince pies ready at home, and visit www. BRADLEY STOKE SHOPPING fromesidechurches.org.uk to watch this Christmas favourite! The Barn will host a Fused Glass Jewellery workshop in late January, and an Apple Grafting workshop in February. One of these might make the perfect Christmas present for a craft enthusiast or gardener. Full details on the Barn website. Winterbourne Medieval Barn, Church Lane, Winterbourne, BS36 1SE For further details about Winterbourne Medieval Barn, visit: www.winterbournebarn.org.uk 89 Winterbourne & Frampton Matters Please call 01454 300900 to advertise Don’t forget to mention Winterbourne & FramptonFacebook: Matters Winterbourne when replying Medieval to ads! Barn 9

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To advertise Your Business email [email protected] or call 01454 300900 10 Winterbourne & Frampton Matters Email [email protected] Don’t forget to mention Winterbourne & Frampton Matters when replying to ads! 11 A local history on – the local! With pubs in Lockdown once again during November, Mary Marshall and her Frampton Cotterell Local History Society’s Chairman – Ian husband in the 1950s Haddrell identifies a number of local hostelries that are no and 1960s, during which longer trading and a few ‘locals’ that have survived to serve the period it is claimed that needs of the community. Cary Grant, the famous Bristol born Hollywood 1 The history of pubs can be traced to Roman taverns in Britain, and through Anglo-Saxon alehouses, but it was not until the movie star, twice visited 5 6 early 19th century that pubs, as we know them today, first the pub. began to appear. In many places, especially in villages, pubs The Huggins family ran are the focal point of local communities. In his 17th-century The Globe, in Church diary, Samuel Pepys described the pub as "the heart of Road, for over 80 years England". from around 1840 until The earliest phase of the building of the Horseshoe Inn in the early part of the Coalpit Heath dates from the late 17th century and George 20th century. In 1937, Richard was recorded as licensee in 1738, with the Holder Arthur Moon, licensee of the Globe was found family running the pub for most of the 19th century. It closed in 7 8 2 the late 1990s and was converted to dwellings. unconscious with head injuries with his bicycle The Bunch of Grapes was located in Woodend Road and beside him, at the bottom of Stoke Hill, Hambrook. He died in Bristol operated as a pub until 1934, when an application for a licence Royal Infirmary. He had served with the 4th Gloucesters in France in was refused on the grounds that ‘little business was done and the Great War. that the premises was not commodious for the purpose of a licensed house as other premises in the neighbourhood'. In the photograph of the Live and Let Live, a magnificent light hangs above the entrance of the pub, in the 1920s. The sign above informs Numerous developments have taken place at The Rising Sun, us that Harry Eaves is landlord, licensed to sell Beer, Ale and Cider. Ryecroft Road, from the 19th century up to the end of the 20th Mrs Lillian Eaves his wife, who died in 1943, stands outside the pub. century. The Howes family ran the pub for almost 100 hundred The 'Live' closed to customers in November 2019. years in the 1900s. In 1903 the pub had an annual rateable It’s back by popular demand - ‘Le TourAre youde Ballsstruggling Deux’ to cut your 3toenails? The Ring of Bells, Coalpit Heath is believed to be of 17th century value £14 10s 0d and was supplied by the Bristol United 9 Taking place 4th - 6th May 2019 Treatments offered include: Brewery. R.A.W DECORATING origin, with 18th and 19th century alterations and additions, and 20th • General Nail Care century alterations. Besides its main function of serving beer, in 1837 The Cross Hands (later renamed the Western Coach House) Raising funds for ‘It’s in the Bag’, four pub regulars from• Diabetic The Globe Nail inAnd Frampton Footcare Cotterell, namely the pub was the headquarters of a miners’ funeral club and, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, a venue for stood on the crossroadsPAINTING of Perrinpit AND Road, DECORATING Bristol Road and Giles Fletcher, Stuart Sharman, Kevin Ashton and Mark• Callus Chaplin, Reduction are taking • Cracked part inHeels this gruelling cycle Coroners Inquests. Church Road. 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Pranic Healing® is a simple yet powerful The prison is notorious for being haunted, Visitors and new members are welcome In a relaxed environment, our withmobility many issues. reported Mobile sightings treatments and paranormal are viewed Happyand 64th effective Birthday system of non-touch, energy healing to our monthly meetings at St Peter’s Hall volunteers will show you how to experiencesas a treat, especially being recorded. when there Even is moreour tour than guide, one based on the fundamental principle that the body on School Road at 7.45pm, on the fourth use a computer (PC, laptop or Winterbourne Evening WI whoperson was in athe former household prison who officer would there, like a hadtreatment personal possesses the innate ability to heal itself. 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The Friends of Hambrook School (FoHS) held their first committee meeting, over Zoom, at the start of term and quickly realised that this year was going to have to be approached in a very different way. Instead of their usual fun filled Christmas Fair in the grounds of the Hambrook Primary, they would have to come up with another way to raise much needed funds for the school. As well as supporting the school FoHS also wanted to help support the local businesses that would normally have stalls as part of the Christmas Fair. That's when Steph Chick, one of the members of the FoHS Committee, came up with the idea of holding a Virtual Christmas Market. To be included on the light trail please post your entry slip at The Brockeridge Centre, Woodend Held on Facebook, the Friends of Hambrook School Virtual Christmas Market Road, Frampton Cotterell or email sawalters@ Deadline for colouring competition 12th December. page was created. The Market started on the 26th October and will run up until blueyonder.co.uk ott text Sue on 07767 487531 All entries to be displayed in the windows of the The the 20th December 2020. Trail maps will be available on FCPC website Brockeridge Centre, during the season. Winner to be https://framptoncotterell-pc.gov.uk/ or announced on 14th December. Any queries contact Sue There are currently over thirty stalls offering a Facebook: framptoncotterell.org.uk on 07767 487531 / [email protected]. variety of things to buy. The stalls range from dog treats, to luxury skin care, to beautiful clothing and accessories, and many other wonderful Christmas items. Please feel free to join the page Blonde Angel Street Team and take a browse at what's on offer. It can all be done from the comfort of your own living room! Christmas Appeal If you are interested in having a stall please Blonde Angel Street Team is a growing local community contact FoHS for details, email hambrookpta@ movement bringing supplies to people living on the gmail.com. streets and hostels in the Bristol and Yate area. They The funds raised by the FoHS Market will be would love you to support their Christmas appeal Are you stuck for a Christmas gift idea going towards purchasing books and other much to fill a Christmassy shoebox, stocking or bag with for an animal loving friend or relative? needed items for the school. useful supplies and treats to bring comfort and spread some much-needed Christmas cheer to some of those Why not make a donation to the Jingle all the way! members of our community who need it most. Moggery in their name? Please wrap or decorate your box, stocking or bag, Keeping up the theme of us all Call the Moggery on 0117 9243128 and we will coming together safely at this include a Christmas card (with a warm message), and send a beautiful Christmas card to the name and write on a label/tag whether its for a man or a woman address you specify, detailing your gift. magical time of year. The Facebook (and if appropriate what clothing size). page: Worldwide Christmas Eve Like all charities we have not been able to hold Ideas for the contents: Woolly hat, scarf, gloves, warm any fundraising events in 2020 and our ‘Kitty’ is Jingle 2020 is encouraging everyone to socks, thermals (new or clean good condition second greatly reduced. come outside and ring a bell at 6pm on hand), new undies, small torch and battery, baby wipes, Christmas Eve for 2 minutes to spread toiletries, chocolates, sweets, snacks, pot noodle, hot Please help us to continue our much-needed work choc sachet, other Christmas treat foods, notebook, pen, small game, small book, face mask, hand sanitiser, rescuing Bristol’s abandoned and unwanted cats Christmas spirit and to help Santa fly the gift card for warm food or hot drink or food shop and kittens. sleigh. After a tough year for everyone it Prepare one or more – all contributions very much appreciated on or before the deadline of Friday 11 Thank you, Christine Bayka ‘Chair’ would be lovely if we could all take part, December. Our local collection points are Bradley Stoke (please contact Debbie Ellacott 07877 781660 The Moggery Rescue & Rehoming Centre Bishopston raise some community spirit and put a or Yate (please contact Sean Suleman: [email protected]) #blondeangelstreetteam smile on children and adults faces. 2021 Winterbourne & Frampton Matters Please call 01454 300900 to advertise Don’t forget to mention Winterbourne & Frampton Matters when replying to ads! 21

Minister’s Christmas Message Can you picture returning to your homes from the midnight service with the snow gently falling to the ‘Love is all around us' to celebrate in safety ground and Christmas lights shining from village this special season. So, cottages, dancing their hypnotic patterns on the As I write, I am looking out across the fields from what do we hope will pure white snow lying all around, like the icing on my study window, with the latest autumnal storm be in store if we come a beautiful Christmas cake. Well that’s the plan stripping the trees of their golden leaves and the out of restrictions on anyway! darkening clouds in the south west guaranteeing still 2nd December, or even In whatever way we are able to celebrate Christmas, greater levels of precipitation, ensuring that 2020 slightly later? however much of our plan we are able to deliver will be one of the wettest autumns on record. Well we hope to kick (sadly I can’t promise the snow but I will put in a We have gone into lockdown once more, in an off our celebrations with an open-air Christingle word!), the one thing that cannot be taken from us attempt to stem the tide of Covid 19 and I am left Service on December 13th at Iron Acton (let’s pray and perhaps is more poignant this year than ever, is pondering where the UK will be in its fight to deal with for a crisp and frosty evening) and if the evening that Christmas is the celebration of love and not just the current wave of infections over the coming weeks breeze means we can’t keep our Christingles alight, for our family and friends, important though that is. and just exactly what Christmas 2020 will look like? then we can always turn on the torch feature of our Christmas is about a ‘love’ that permeates through Normally at this time of year I have Christmas all mobile phones, waving them in the air as the choir our human family in the way that we care for those wrapped up, planning of services sorted, of children sing ‘Away in a Manger’. who are struggling, those who have little, those who programme of school carol concerts in place, There will hopefully be candle lit services are on the margins, those who are alone, anxious rotas all done, resources ordered, of ‘Reflective Music and Story for and afraid. It is about responding to the eternal truth with strategic thoughts drifting towards Christmas’ across the churches of the that God loves His creation so much that he sent and Easter, especially if it is early. However, Benefice with two sittings at each – 4pm gave up his Son Jesus Christ that all humanity might one thing that this pandemic has taught and 6.30pm (tickets please!). be enveloped in his love for all time. me is that forward planning has to be fluid, full of a myriad of options to On the 20th December, at 3pm we Without this all-embracing love we lose Christmas meet and work with an ever changing and still hope that the Benefice we will be anyway and if there is one positive that has come unpredictable future. Daily prayers for the NHS, our broadcasting for the first time on our website; from this pandemic it is to have witnessed the schools, the successful development of a vaccine, ‘Carols in the Barn’ https://www.fromesidechurches. ‘Rashford-esk’ actions of love, undertaken by prayers for those who are suffering as a result of the org.uk/ (this will be available to view all over the so many ordinary people, to meet the growing Please visit the website for up to date information virus’s impact and the hope that our leaders might Christmas period so you can bring the festive needs of the vulnerable and marginalised in our regarding Christmas services find a way to get ahead of the game rather than message into your homes at any point). Carols in communities. The truth is ‘Love is all around us’ and https://fromesidechurches.org.uk chasing their tails. These petitions of prayer seem to the Medieval Barn at Winterbourne is listed as one whatever happens regarding national restrictions, be the only constant in the shifting sands of dealing of the top 10 things to do at Christmas in the UK and we can rejoice once more this year that the ‘Spirit of with Coronavirus. rather than cancel this year we plan to film at the Christmas’ does truly thrive in all our hearts and lives. refurbished barn, retelling the story in an imaginative Christmas Blessings and a Happy New Year to you and all you love. I wonder what the way, punctuated with traditional carols for you to join second national in with at home. Revd Malcolm Strange, Rector of the Fromeside Benefice lockdown will mean for our Christmas on the On Christmas Eve, we will be open air again for The Parishes of Frampton Cotterell, Iron Acton, Winterbourne the ‘Crib Service’ at Iron Acton – 4.00pm and then Fromeside? Well folks I & Winterbourne Down, in THE DIOCESE OF BRISTOL am always a half glass finally, ‘Candle lit Midnight Mass’ and Christmas full person, so I am Day Family Services as we celebrate once more the www.fromesidechurches.org.uk Incarnation afresh. sure we will find a way Email – [email protected] The Parishes of Frampton Cotterell, Iron Acton, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down, in THE DIOCESE OF BRISTOL Firstly, can you pray? Donations need to be received before 29th with St Saviour's Church Comfort & Joy this Christmas Tel: 01454 776518Can we Email: pray [email protected] that these families might November to allow time to get the gifts to the www.fromesidechurches.org.uk schools. St Saviour's have been working with the other particularly difficult. ‘Together for Fromeside’ know God’s comfort and joy this year. There is a churches in the area (Winterbourne, Iron Acton would like to invite you to be a part of the Church’s prayer right you might like to use. Prayer for Families who are Struggling and Frampton Cotterell), to set up a campaign to response through their project. ‘Comfort & Joy’ Secondly, can you give? God, who comes among us as a child, raise money to help disadvantaged people in the The ambition is to create a fund to bless each of be close to all your children this Christmas, To give to ‘Comfort & Joy’ online at :https://www. area. The church group is called ‘Together for the seven primary schools in Fromeside with £500 especially to those who are struggling. . which can be distributed to the families who need justgiving.com/crowdfunding/comfort-joy?utm_ Fromeside’ Where there is hardship, bring comfort, it most. Schools have been central in providing for term=276ZYqW6 or by sending a cheque, made This has been a difficult year for many and our community this year, and ‘Comfort & Joy’ aims payable to 'Churches Together in Frampton where there is anxiety, bring joy. one which has highlighted inequalities in our to get behind them with our prayer and our money Cotterell and Coalpit Heath (LEP)'. To – ‘Comfort May there be peace on earth, community. For many families who were struggling to bless their efforts to serve those in need. & Joy’, c/o The Vicarage, St Saviour’s Church, through Jesus Christ. Amen. financially before lockdown, this winter will be Beesmoor Road, Coalpit Heath, Bristol, BS36 2RP. 22 Winterbourne & Frampton Matters Email [email protected] Don’t forget to mention Winterbourne & Framptonhttp://coalpitheath.org.uk Matters when replying to ads! 23 Are you in need of some painOstm, Lic reliefMET, Lic CR, and FAO support? 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My name is So it was that the Baron set about bringing doubt This was hardly surprising, as the Baron had found someone to strike some flint, that he may light the John Parsons into the peasant’s minds. A woman who went into her a long way away and told her what to say. He fire and send this witch back from whence she came and I live in her hut, was later found to have lost her child, promised to pay her well to accuse the woman of from. Soon a small stick with straw and hay tied to the village of the rumour started that she was well before she witchcraft. “How may you charge this woman that it was lit and the torch was passed to the Baron. He Winterbourne entered the witches hut. A witch. At the utterance you accuse of being a witch?” asked the Baron. “I walked to the pyre and lit the straw and soon it was and have of the word, the people shuddered, wasn’t it said was young when I went into her lair, but she stole burning well. They threw on more sticks to make done so for that a witch is a friend of the devil? They crossed my youth, and now I am as she was.” sure the fire took, and as he turned to walk away, so themselves and looked around, and so as each the last fifty There was fear now within the people who again the witch called out to him. misfortune occurred, so the witch was blamed. odd years. crossed themselves and vowed to wash the stench “Ye who hath condemned me falsely, shall Some things Reason didn’t come into the thinking behind this. A she was giving out from their bodies, lest they catch on the seventh day from my death, join me in in village life few weeks ago, she was a good friend, now people something evil. purgatory for ever more.” The Baron turned and puzzle me, and took to bathing in the river to clean the hand that “How say thee witch, will you reverse your spell as he looked up to her, she smiled, and he felt a until recently, may have touched them. In so doing, they washed and give this creature who lives in your old cold shiver run down his spine. the name of the filth from them, and felt better for it. They had body, her own back?” The woman lifted her head She writhed as she burnt, but not a sound came been purged from the evil that had been upon a hamlet near and as she looked around, the people shut their from her lips, and those watching crossed their them said the priest, and the church began to get Winterbourne, eyes so that she could not see into their souls. “I do hearts in fear that she was not dying but changing offerings of cabbage and potatoes once again. got me not know this woman. She means nothing to me,” into a devil. They watched her head slump forward, intrigued. I had not done any major research on it, Weeks later, the Baron rode down to the hut and the accused woman uttered. and soon the fire overwhelmed her. They moved but just by chance, I purchased an old map of the called the woman out. Two soldiers held her, and “Then by your own mouth, you have confirmed your back as the smell of burning flesh came to them, village and the surrounds. she was charged with being a witch. “You will get a fate. I find you guilty of witchcraft and condemn you then started to drift away as everything tumbled into fair trial, and then we will burn you at the stake,” he Now, it appears that the original name for the hamlet to be burnt at the stake.” He turned to the people, the flames. said. was ‘Yonder’. Yes, I know what you are thinking, I “What say you god fearing men and women?” Soon there was truly little of the frame to see, thought it strange also. It seems that the scattering She had her hands tied and a rope put about her To shouts of “Burn her” and “Guilty”, the woman and the body had been lost to the flames when of houses outside of the village of Winterbourne had neck, then with the Baron on his horse and the two was hauled away to wait for her final day. She was everything fell. no name, so when locals were asked where they soldiers behind him, he led her away from her hut, given bread and water; it was much better to burn a “You lad,” said the Baron, “stay here and see that lived, they pointed and said Yonder. as she stumbled behind the soldier’s horses. At his live witch than a dead one. the fire doesn’t spread anywhere. When the flame This got me doing more research and I found the manor house, she was locked in a small stock room dies, then you can return home.” church had old written logs of the burning and and then left for the trial the next day. In two days, a cross was made and stood tall in a field outside of the hamlet of Yonder. On the third The Baron got onto his horse and with his two purging of witches in the parish. Wonderful words On the following morning, the Baron, having had a day after the trial, the woman was dragged out and soldiers, returned to his manor. He took his usual assailed me as I read about one witch in 1783, who hearty breakfast, ordered the woman to be brought put in a cart. She was paraded through the three mug of ale and thought of the way the woman had was burned at the stake in the hamlet of Yonder. It out before him. The local priest was commanded villages and soon a gathering of people followed the died. Had she really been a witch? seems that she had been practicing medicine and to write the proceedings down. A chair was brought Baron sat on his horse, who was leading the cart to had cured many. People came from far and wide to out for the Baron to sit in judgement over her trial. The heat had been intense, he had to move back the burning site. Once they arrived, the two soldiers see her, and most times she was able to help if not People had come to be a witness, and the peasants himself as it built up. But to burn like that and to not tied rope around her wrists, and threw the rope over cure them. were told to attend. Not to see justice done, but to even scream, could she have put a curse upon him? the cross bars. Passing the ropes end to two men, endorse the idea that he could always be relied The Baron who held charge over the peasants in they waited as the priest said his prayer, asking god He slept badly that night and on the following upon to look after their welfare. three villages, heard about this, and was not well to shut the door of forgiveness for the likes of she morning, rose and had a good breakfast. He had pleased. The people were supposed to be servile The woman, who had had no food of water since who did the devil’s bidding. just finished his meal when a servant came to him. to him, and only him. To have someone who had a her arrest, looked a mess. She was made to kneel He was told that a man wanted to speak to him and Once he finished, Baron Watley said, “Three men little more than cow poo for brains, was unthinkable, before her superior and not to look at him. He told to ask a boon of him. “Tell him to wait,” he said, and to each rope, pull her up.” Hands grabbed the rope, and he now had one on his land. the people that she could cast a spell upon him just walked to a window that looked toward the place of and, in a few moments, the woman was hoisted up by looking at him. Everyone made the sign of the the burning. As he looked, he could just make out a What to do about it? Declare she was a witch and to the cross beams. A ladder was taken from the cross, and the Baron smiled. The woman had been spiral of smoke rising up from the area he estimated then give her a trial? Find her guilty and burn her! cart and a soldier climbed up to one cross beam judged already. that the burning had occurred. He turned and Persecuting suspected witches was not an elite and tied a new rope tight around her hand and arm. shouted to the servant, “Saddle my horse and call plot against the poor; nor was practicing witchcraft He then asked who among those here accuse this He called for the main rope to be released and he out my guards, there’s mischief afoot.” a mode of peasant resistance. The church and woman of witchcraft. A woman pushed through the untied it and it fell to the ground. He then repeated state alike tried and executed them. It took more people and said, “I do.” She was bent and frail, her the procedure on the other side. Another cart came Going down the stairs he saw the man who had than pure reason to bring the witch to justice, she face distorted and wrinkled and etched with grime. with hay stubble, sticks and logs. Soon the pyre was requested an audience with him. “Well man, tell me could incite the lower orders to think and it was best No one had seen her before. ready. quickly what you want. You can see I am busy and have need to be on my way within a few moments.” to remove the problem by letting the lower orders The Baron got down from his horse and asked for demand it through fear. Continued on next page ►

28 Winterbourne & Frampton Matters Email [email protected] Don’t forget to mention Winterbourne & Frampton Matters when replying to ads! 29 ► “Sir, my son who you told last evening to watch but still the flame burned. “Another, give me the steam had burnt over the dying embers of the burning, has not come another.” him as he threw the water over the fire. The home all night. I did go to the ashes, but they still Another bucket was passed to him and again he physician was again burn, and they burn with much heat. He did not threw it over the flame. Again, a large amount of called but on seeing return home for you told him to stay until the flame steam rose from the ashes and as it spat, so the the large blisters, dies, and it has not done so.” ashes rose up with the steam. Then the screaming suggested that he “Upon my soul man. If this is because that wretch of started among the people standing around the bleed him to purify his yours has been casting wood to the fire, then I shall flame, that still had not died down. Baron Watley blood, for that is what have him, and you flogged for your impertinence.” turned to see what was going on, and hot water it must be. He took out vapour burnt his face and hands. As he shouted “Sir, no wood has gone onto the ashes, but when I a large leech and tried out in pain, he breathed in some of the hot steam approached the fire, it rose, then fell again. It is as if to get it to fasten on the and some of the fine ash in the vapour. His face the devil himself,” and he crossed himself, “is under Barons arm, but as the was burning with the hot steam and ash clung to his the ashes. It is fearsome hot Sir.” bloodsucker bit in, so face. The Baron mounted his horse and with the two it died. He struggled to walk to his horse, but the water soldiers, he rode out from his manor and towards After six attempts, and ash hindered his efforts. He broke out from the the rising plume of smoke. The man ran after them the man decided that area, and as he lifted his tunic to wipe his face, the but was soon left behind. enough leeches had people and his two guards turned and ran away. Upon arrival to the place, he was surprised to see died, it was time to many of the people who had attended the burning, The Baron heard a noise above him and looked up. lance the blisters. Four standing around the ashes that truly had a flame The vapour was now in the shape of a female and men were called to coming from the middle of the pile of ash. “Boy, as he watched, one of her hands reached down and hold the Baron down where is the boy who I told to watch over the flames went into his opened mouth. He heard laughing as and once held; the from the burning, where are you boy?” he gagged at the taste of the ash. physician cut the first The boy who had been asked to stay ran up to the And then it all ended. blister. Pus oozed out Baron. “Have you been throwing kindling onto this The steam dropped to the ground, the dust blew and again the smell of boy?” “No Sir, but as someone moves towards the away, and the flame died down and vanished. The burning flesh attacked pile of ash, so the flame grows higher.” Baron mounted his horse and rode away from the their nostrils. The Baron smelt nothing; The Baron got down from his horse and said to one fire, and towards the people and his guards who were standing watching him come to them. he couldn’t understand of the soldiers, “Hold the boy. If I find a lie has been how four grown men told to me, I will push a branch of wood up his arse, “The fire is out, no thanks to any of you. You two, could be so affected by and he will join the witch’s ashes.” go and get your mounts, I need to clean this filth the bursting of a blister. Image thanks to Know Your Place map: from my clothes and my body. Then a good jug of The Baron walked toward the smoking ashes and The pain from doing it www.kypwest.org.uk/explore-the-map/go-to-the-map/ suddenly a flame came from the centre of the ale and I will then give thought to your punishment.” was his not theirs. He rode through the crowd who parted for him and Slowly, the people left their huts and moved away, pile and as he drew closer, so it also grew. He The physician continued with the lancing, and with made his way to his manor. He stripped his tunic always looking back yonder at the place of Watley’s stopped and then moved around the pile, looking each cut, the ooze gave forth more odious smells and his trousers and commanded that they be end. The hamlet became known as Watley’s end, for any sign of any new wood, but saw none. As he of burnt flesh and blood. Finally, the lancing was scrubbed clean, then asked for water that he could and as time moved on, so the story died, until I completed his circle, so the boy’s father arrived. finished, and the physician left the Baron, but he rinse the ash from his face and hands. Once clean, found it. “Release the boy, he tells the truth,” said the Baron. he sat in his chair and called for ale. He drank well continued to feel ill, and food nor ale interested him Now the old hamlet of Yonder, known as Watley’s He turned to the crowd and said. “Get water from and soon felt tired. anymore. end, is part of Winterbourne. But if you should walk the river, we shall dowse this fire and end this He became exhausted and slept for longer periods. 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