Tannat

This book was part of the Shakespeare display at my local library, so I picked it up on a whim.  I’m glad I read it before The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England, though.

It’s basically an overview of the sights and personages of London in 1599.  I’d say it does what it says on the tin, but I didn’t actually tally the average daily outlay to see if the 5 groat limit was respected.  Fairly interesting, but some of the phrasing was awkward.  For example:

“By the time Anne was old enough to be married Hewett, who had become very rich, refused all others but Osborn, giving him both his daughter and a huge dowry.”

Osborn had rescued Anne as an infant when she fell out of the window of Hewett's house on London Bridge, you see, but something radical should have been done to that sentence.

[1 groat = 4 pence]