Every year, the Mayor of London is given a dozen oxen as part of his annual pay packet. The livestock are usually donated to a charity of the mayor's choice or slaughtered. In 2015, traces of cannabis were discovered in tobacco pipes buried in William Shakespeare's garden. Does that mean Shakespeare was a pothead? Maybe, but maybe not as well because it could have been someone else's who was living there.

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