OK, Malcolm, don't add one more version to the tally!

In any case, "Geordie" shows how enduring are double standards in the criminal justice system. Poaching the King's royal deer was quite obviously a capital offense, but what about the final purchasers of the ill gotten venison. I understand there was a ready market for such meat, but it was only the poor shnook of a poacher who got his neck stretched, not the nobilty who feasted on the stolen deer.

Geordie was at least lucky enough to be born to the King's royal breed -- a cousin who has fallen on hard times no doubt -- for he faced a relatively quick death. The execution of a commoner, by comparison, would be a long and torturous affair.

--- Steve