On: Queen Victoria's Stalker

[rl3]

>Childe was a prolific letter writer, sending short, clear missives to friends and supporters or even the Lunacy Board about his case and his well-being.

Ah, how quaint: the Lunacy Board.

"The Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over lunatics so found by writ of De Lunatico Inquirendo" [2]

The history is interesting:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhouses_Act_1774

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunacy_Act_1845

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners_in_Lunacy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Control_for_Lunacy_an...

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> "The Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over lunatics so found by writ of De Lunatico Inquirendo" [2]

I thought you were riffing, and then I read the footnote.

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I've always been amused by HN footnotes, but this takes the biscuit!