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Thread #164112   Message #3926879
Posted By: David Carter (UK)
24-May-18 - 12:23 PM
Thread Name: How reliable is Folk History ?
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How reliable is Folk History ?
""he was preoccupied with “social life, travel and the opposite sex”"


Doesn't exactly mark him out amongst young men of any social class.

"and left a trail of lovers and mistresses across the continent"

Which marks him out as someone with the resources to do so across the continent rather than closer to home.

And he bequeathed his women servants £20. Seems more likely to be out of respect rather than penance.