A few weeks after a large French raiding party had been driven away from
the Isle of Wight, another flotilla arrived from across the Channel demanding money with menaces.
Augustus, the Roman Emperor, invited himself to dine at the luxury
Naples villa of Publius Vedius Pollio, but a broken goblet thoroughly spoilt the evening.
Following the Battle of Crécy in 1346, Edward III instituted an order of
chivalry in honour of St George, inspired (some said) by something he picked up in the street.