==BBC - Tudor Monastery Farm (2013) Part 5 Welfare -==


[[http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=53262|BBC - Tudor Monastery Farm (2013) Part 5 Welfare ]] {{:hdimage.jpg?20|}}

{{http://forums.mvgroup.org/release.images/JungleBoy/tudorfarm.jpg?200&nolink|}}

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back over 500 years to run a farm at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex exactly as it would have been in 1500, during the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII.

**Part 5: Welfare**

With no other provision for the poor, monasteries played a key role in providing welfare for those in need. But funding charity also meant extending hospitality to wealthy donors. The monastery restores a corrody room which would have been granted to an elderly worker as a form of pension. The room needs a new floor so limestone is gathered and roasted to make lime putty. Ruth is in charge of the home comforts and harvests rushes from the river to make a mattress. The Abbot is planning a big feast to entertain a patron - a good way to encourage the wealthier members of society to make large donations. Tom oversees the production of a book to give the patron as a gift, while Ruth lends a hand in the kitchen to produce some lavish dishes for the Abbot's table, and Peter distils wine into brandy. There is also a lesson in Tudor etiquette for Tom and Peter before the feast is served.


==See Also==

{{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01k3b96|BBC Site}}

==Trailer==

,,Full Version Available Upon Request,, 

{{ youtube> }}





{{tag>HD History England BBC SER BBC_-_Tudor_Monastery_Farm_(2013) FF 2013 Ar12/13 Name}}