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419 – The Wake at Peterborough

The British History Podcast

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The History of the Mergerum Fine

William had been working steadily to colonize England with new Norman landlords. But those Normans kept turning up dead. So he instituted the Mergerum Fine, which is how we get the modern word of murder. And it's clear that this problem of suspiciously dead Normans was wide spread.

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