forgotten taboring traditions - The Stang Ride

 

The Great Hall, Montacute House, Somerset

Montacute House was built for Sir Edward Phelips (c.1555/60-1614) a lawyer and Member of the House of Commons. He was the Speaker and then Master of the Rolls and the opening prosecutor during the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters in 1605. Having this plasterwork panel in his reception room was possibly a joke - trial by neighbour versus trial by the Houses of Parliament.

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