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Literature | Peeping Tom of Coventry Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry, imposed some very severe imposts on the people of Coventry, which his countess, Godiva, tried to get mitigated. The earl, thinking to silence her importunity, said he would comply when she had ridden naked from one end of the town to the other. Godiva took him at his word, actually rode through the town naked, and Leofric remitted the imposts. Before Godiva started, all the inhibitants voluntarily confined themselves to their houses, and resolved that anyone who stirred abroad should be put to death. A tailor thought to have a peep, but was rewarded with the loss of his eyes, and has ever since been called Peeping Tom of Coventry. There is still a figure in a house at Coventry said to represent Peeping Tom. Matthew of Westminster (1307) is the first to record the story of Lady Godiva: the addition of Peeping Tom dates from the reign of Charles II. In Smithfield Wall is a grotesque figure of the inquisitive tailor in "flowing wig and Stuart cravat." In regard to the terms made by Leofric, it may be mentioned that Rudder, in his History of Gloucester, tells us that "the privilege of cutting wood in the Herduoles was granted to the parishioners of St. Briavel's Castle, in Gloucestershire, on precisely similar terms by the Earl of Hereford, who was at the time lord of Dean Forest. Tennyson, in his Godiva, has reproduced the story. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 45 50 49 4E 47 54 4F 4D 4F 46 43 4F 56 45 4E 54 52 59 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01000101 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001111 01001101 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010110 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E E P I N G   T O M   O F   C O V E N T R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 0045 0050 0049 004E 0047 0054 004F 004D 004F 0046 0043 004F 0056 0045 004E 0054 0052 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5039395043484125449472494023749563948545259 |
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