During the Lepers’ Plot of 1321, King Philip V [“the fifth”] ordered about five thousand lepers who had been accused of poisoning wells to be killed in this way. Jacques de Molay and William Tyndale died in this manner, and Charles the Bad died through these means after his physician wrapped him from (*) neck to toe in linen cloth soaked with brandy. Only six deaths were recorded in an event of this type that began at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane; that event caused the destruction of a large portion of houses and churches in London in 1666. For 10 points, identify this means of death which Diocletian used to kills Christians and destroy their scriptures, and which Nero was purported to have ignored by playing the fiddle.
During the Lepers’ Plot of 1321, King Philip V [“the fifth”] ordered about five thousand lepers who had been accused of poisoning wells to be killed in this way. Jacques de Molay and William Tyndale died in this manner, and Charles the Bad died through these means after his physician wrapped him from (*) neck to toe in linen cloth soaked with brandy. Only six deaths were recorded in an event of this type that began at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane; that event caused the destruction of a large portion of houses and churches in London in 1666. For 10 points, identify this means of death which Diocletian used to kills Christians and destroy their scriptures, and which Nero was purported to have ignored by playing the fiddle.
During the Lepers’ Plot of 1321, King Philip V [“the fifth”] ordered about five thousand lepers who had been accused of poisoning wells to be killed in this way.