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From: Tom Camfield <>
Subject: Re: John's death
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 21:05:40 +0300

In article <>, Tanya Marshall
<> wrote:

> On 29 Mar 1996 wrote concerning John's death
>
> >I thought it was eels....of which he was inordinately fond.....
>
> Acturally, it was Henry I who died after eating too many eels, one of his
> favorite dishes.

"A surfeit of lampreys" is what I have listed as the cause of Henry I's
death. The cause of death I have for his successor Stephen is "the piles."
For John, I have merely: "course of nature."
Henry III also is said to have died of diarrhea.
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Tom Camfield -

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