The Tudor Dynasty
They ate coarse grey bread made from
rye and barley. Soups were made from vegetables and herbs. Meat was a luxury but
poor people sometimes kept animals to provide milk, cheese and eggs.
Life for the poor in Tudor times was harsh. When the harvest failed it was tempting for
poor people to steal food. When people did break the law, they risked public flogging
or being hanged.
Tudor Toilets
Toilets were called 'Privies' and were not very
private at all. They were often just a piece of
wood over a bowl or a hole in the ground.
People would wipe their bottoms with leaves or
moss and the wealthier people used soft lamb's
wool.
In palaces and castles, which had a moat, the
lords and ladies would retire to a toilet set into a
cupboard in the wall called a garderobe. Here the
waste would drop down a shaft into the moat
below.
THE TUDOR
DYNASTY
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