Tales Of Castle Rory

According to the online Cambridge Dictionary, a “king’s ransom” means “a large amount of money”. Something can be said to: “cost a king’s ransom”, or “be worth a king’s ransom”.  On occasion, kings were ransomed, and a large amount of money was definitely involved. […]

Currency in  thirteenth century England consisted of pounds, shillings and pence. There were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound (or ‘tower pound’, to give it its full name), so 240 pennies in a pound.  But the only […]

The feudal system was the main social structure during the Middle Ages. Feudalism meant a hierarchy of social status, with the King at the top and the unfree peasants, or villeins, at the bottom. In between came the bishops and the nobility, […]