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Renaissance dancers

16 May 2010
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Jousting

16 May 2010
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Imagine being visited by this in your dying moments...

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A particularly keen re-enactor had invested in this all-over leather suit for keeping out the Plague miasma. A full length leather coat, leather gauntlets fitting over the top and a leather helmet with rigid 'beak' for stuffing with sweet-smelling herbs to filter out the pestilent vapours. The outift topped off with a wodden staff bound with a posy of herbs, for rapping on the door of the potential plague victim.

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