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Ten surgeons haunt English deed in mock royal tale
F. Addison Blake discovers a quirky clause in the Fyles Abbey title deed. The gift from Henry V requires ten surgeons each year, a mistake that leads to a comic Balmoral encounter as a kingly misread turns into a muddled royal ruse. The summoned doctors, led by a dignified elder, confront Blake amid golf links and hawthorn hedges, revealing the word surgeons actually reads sturgeons in the period deed.
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F. Addison Blake
Fyles Abbey
Muriel
Lord Tyneside
Barrett & Co
Fylese Abbey
Tyneside
Henry V
Scotland
Henry
George
London
Balmoral Station
Mr. Blake
Blake
Balmoral Castle
Balmoral