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Richard II was also supposed to have been killed that way-but it's probably untrue.
It's often staged that way in the Shakespeare play.
As for it being a way to cure venereal disease-well, as it's fatal, it does cure the gleet-and rectal itching, too, but I doubt it was ever a viable treatment.
The hot iron up the bung 'ole was a good way to kill political prisoners, no marks and no bleeding-this was long before autopsy was practiced.
Richard II was also supposed to have been killed that way-but it's probably untrue.
It's often staged that way in the Shakespeare play.
As for it being a way to cure venereal disease-well, as it's fatal, it does cure the gleet-and rectal itching, too, but I doubt it was ever a viable treatment.
The hot iron up the bung 'ole was a good way to kill political prisoners, no marks and no bleeding-this was long before autopsy was practiced.
Hard times!
Then there was Vlad the Impaler but I don't think he was related to
Richard or the Tudors.
Or just up and died, we'll probably never really know.
Do you mean Vlad is related to everyone by Trans(ylvania)fusion or
by geneology ?
Maybe Henry III was a Prince of Darkness rather than the true King
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