Our thanks to Ian Brandt for letting us know whodunnit! Here is the solution to our medieval murder mystery and our huge thanks to all the re-enactors who made such an amazing event for us once more. Well be posting an album for photos up very shortly... For those who may not have been able to stay to the end of the event we can announce that the killer of Thomas the Inn Keeper was Lady Elizabeth Fitzwalter. Lady Elizabeth was ambitious, cold blooded and eager to inherit the family estate from her elder brother so that she could marry a handsome Knight of Edward IV’s Household and be presented at Court. Although her brother, whose own wife had died recently of the sweating sickness, believed that Lady Elizabeth should have already been married to one of the local knights Elizabeth had managed to persuade her doting brother that his proposed husbands for her had not been suitable at all. For a while Lady Elizabeth had been adding poison to her brother’s food and drink in small doses slowly killing him and she had been using two of her household servants, Catherine Miller and Sarah the Apprentice Seamstress to buy various “tonics” from the village Apothecary. One of these was Bella Donna (Deadly Nightshade) which although a poison was, in the Middle Ages, also used as a cosmetic. However, before Christmas Catherine Miller had seen Lady Elizabeth tainting her brother’s food, had guessed the truth and her challenged which resulted in Catherine being murdered by Elizabeth. Unfortunately, Catherine had told her lover, the Inn Keeper, of Lady Elizabeth’s murderous intent toward her brother with the result that the Inn Keeper had been blackmailing our killer. As an initial “payment” Elizabeth had given Thomas a gold pilgrim badge that contained within it a piece of cloth soaked in the blood of Thomas a Beckett. Killing Catherine had been easy but the Inn Keeper was a former soldier and an altogether harder prospect to deal with so Elizabeth would have had to bide her time. Following a spate of recent pilgrim badge thefts in the village, Elizabeth “faked” the theft of a chest from her bedchamber and claimed the precious Thomas a Beckett badge was inside. She then arranged to meet the Inn Keeper to “warn him” that her brother believed the gold badge was missing and that if it was found on the Inn Keeper everyone would believe he was the thief. During the secret meeting Elizabeth managed to give Thomas wine drugged with a sedative which made him sufficiently drowsy for her to stab him and hide the body. All the other sub-plots were simply red herrings.....................
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 17:39:28 +0000
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