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02/03/1897

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At the Peterborough County Court sitting of this day, a number of orders were made that give us a glimpse of the time. Charles Jenks, a labourer from Water Newton, had debts totalling £21 4s that had accrued due to his loss of work caused by illness. He offered to meet his debts to 8s 6d in the pound at the rate of 3s per month. An order was made allowing this situation. Daniel Monk, a labourer from Eye, was in deeper trouble with debts of £40 10s 4d. He was offering 9s in the pound on the debts - an offer accepted by the court and requiring him to pay at a rate of 6s per month. If my sums are right, that's five years of payments. Among the undefended cases we find that Charles Tebbs, butcher of Midgate, was seeking payment of £26 15s 6d from one W. Chapman of Robin Hood Chase in Nottingham. The claim was upheld and Chapman was required to pay the debt at 10s a month. Tebbs has to wait over four years for settlement of the debt - if he's lucky. (Peterborough Citizen)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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Do You Know If the Romans Had Pets?

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43-410

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We are a nation of animal lovers, with dogs and cats the most popular pets, but did they have pets in the Roman period? The Roman period was from AD43-410, so the remains of Roman pets would be long gone. So what can we look for?

One thing we can look for is paw prints on pottery and roof tiles. Whilst waiting to be fired (baked) clay objects were left out to dry before going in the oven. Occasionally animals jumped on to the pottery and left little paw prints behind. 

A Roman roof tile was found in Castor with a small paw print, possibly a cat, pressed into it. Castor was close to Durobrivae, a large Roman town, and was the home of a large pottery industry. You can view the roof tile at Peterborough Museum where you can look for other paw prints and signs of Roman pets.

Romans, like us, liked pictures of their pets and mosaics of animals, especially dogs have been found throughout the Roman world.

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Image of a mosaic from Pompeii

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