Or ‘Friar Tuck’ so overblown
He tipped the scale at fifteen stone.
Henry III. 1216–1272
AND what of Henry number Three,
The King who suffered poverty?
It’s very awkward we must own
To be ‘hard up’ when on a Throne;
To have to scrape up an amount
To pay the butcher on account,
Or ask a dun in Kingly way
To kindly call some other day.
Coinage 1257
In twelve-five-seven it is stated
Gold was coined and circulated,
Ha’pence and farthings just before;
In those times worth a great deal more.
Langton Died 1228
The Bible which from over seas
Had no chapters and no verses
Was by Archbishop Langton’s skill
Divided as we use it still.