I'm Imagining Children Abusing This Power

The boy bishop would be expected to spend several weeks travelling through the district, feasting, visiting the homes of the rich. It feels like the plot of a holmark christmas movie. Small child, cerdainly, but in charge of an entire town. The idea is that thereis a christian message behind all this. It's the exaltation of the humble. So the mighty can fall in importanceo the innocent are raised above. Eventually, the practice is brought to an end by henry, the eighth, one of our least fun kings.

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