The 7-Year-Olds Who Would Tame Wild Hawks As Their First Job | Worst Royal Jobs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Tony Robinson continues his look at The Worst Jobs in History with a rundown on the worst royal jobs. As Tony takes on the work traditionally done at court we learn of the miserable lot of food tasters, whipping boys, falconers, and laundry women who beat Elizabethan laundry with paddles similar to cricket bats.
Tony has a go at knitting chain mail; marvelling at the intricacies and tedium of fashioning one link, let alone a suit which used 200,000. Then there was the lance-makers' task of carving hundreds of lances for jousting tournaments or the shining of shoes for Edwardian hunting parties. Armourers, fire-workers, grooms of the chamber, hall boys and royal messengers all had their moments of misery.
But the most unpleasant job of all fell to the unfortunate lackeys who were responsible for the rich purple dye for the monarch's coronation robes. The purple maker created the royal colour by stomping up and down on rotting shellfish which had been soaking in human urine.
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"After about an hour, you will experience purging. Which is a polite way of saying..."
"That's enough."
10:01 a perfect example of how tedious it must have been to make chain mail, the artist who drew the picture of someone making it, couldn't be bothered to actually draw the links to proper size because it would have taken far longer. Choosing instead to draw the rings as huge and saving a lot of time.
I thought that too.
You read my mind perfectly!
Fun fact, during the making of the film lord of the rings, the artists in charge of making all the chainmail actually wore their fingerprints off. The amount of effort that went in to making so many suits of chainmail is unreal.
Vey meditative/zen when you work out a system for it. That's the best way to get through any tedious chore.
@@slhughes1267 it's like a "fire saw" it's all about the rhythm, same with the stone breakers yard... Should sound like a symphony of ding ding dings!! Even with a rowing boat if the gang are in sync it shouldn't be any strain.
Bless that horse for stopping and checking on him when he fell off. 😂
Indeed. That is a very well trained horse! He also sidesteps in the opposite direction from which his rider fell to avoid stepping on him! Kudos to his trainers! I'll bet you he's a training horse for novice riders.
Most horses are trained to avoid stepping on their rider, some just naturally know to avoid your dumbass when you fall haha. Great horse either way.
Ah that’s ace! I didn’t know that. Thought it was quite sweet how she stopped, that’s something my friends ex racer never would do. I remember him throwing her off because of a plastic bag in a tree and he cracked on without her. Always wanted to learn to ride but in my 30 years alive I’ve never gotten around to it. I’m one of those parents that lives vicariously through their child and now my son rides instead. 😂
@@CWM-xl8ki you should ride!!! Its never to late to do something you've always wanted to!! Plus what a great life lesson for your son and something for you two to do together! Don't be afraid, every cowboy worth their salts fallen off more times than they can count! But most importantly; do it for you, and your soul. Do it because you want to and because you deserve to do the things that make you happy! Please tell me you will go???
Horse: " woah, sorry about that, are you okay mate?"
The narrator was like a smiling little boy when the powder from the fireworks was lit. It was adorable. Brought a smile to my face. How sweet!
nothing like staying up till almost 5 am to watch some history stuff
Same!! ✌️👍
Ya got 3 - 4 hours to spare before work and resumed regret, lol
Yoooo it's about that time of night where youtube comments start calling me out. Greetings, fellow travellers.
stayed up till 6, climbed into bed, woke up at 8 to continue watching lol
@@TarmanTheChampion That's a little too relatable. It's so engaging.
I love how he gets so hands on into actually doing all of the steps of these jobs. It looks horrible, but it does give a more personal, intimate look at how these people lived and what their jobs were like. He literally brought us into those lives, and it worked.
I also feel terrible for him. He must get hurt doing this just to show everyone how people in history lived rather than reciting their struggles and pain while walking down a path.
I appreciate it though. There's so much focus on the personality quirks of the nobles
For the poison tasting explanation, found that a really good book that explored this was Poison Study by Maria V Snyder, explains that you can't consistently eat off one side of the plate (someone scoping the king would know if you always tasted the left side that they should poison the right side) but you also should know what all the poisons are so that you can tell them before they die - some people have a signature poison, so it would be easier to catch them after the tasters demise, you couldn't just go "welp, that was poisoned" and then cark it.
the falcons are so cute
just taking their humans for a walk
i'd be vibing with that cage and a shit ton of falcons
Goodness, I love birds!!
They are amazing!!
I want to know their names. Fluffy? Pecky? Margaret?
Falconry, yes! A Harris’ hawk?
@@monkeynumbernine aw, thanks!
I wanna know how a person randomly discovers such an involved process as this to make purple dye. It's not like they were seeking out any possible way to make purple dye
I dunna. They might have been. "Oi, me likes dat Violet here. Me so does wish to wear it."
When I was a child I played with a shellfish on the coast. I found part of my hand stained purple from handling the creature. It seems like just a matter of making that connection, experimenting, and eventually tweaking and optimizing the process for the best yield.
The smashed shells already have a purple tint to them, just sitting on the bench.
Logically someone noticed the purple colour could stain cloth so they boiled the shells to make dye. It probably took more than a few trys to get the right purple colour, but it's not like they had anything better to do.
As always,by accident.
There's like a 168 hours in a week. Same then, same now.
I love Tony Robinson who played as Baldrick in Blackadder is hosting a documentary on Worst Jobs....indeed a cunning plan
Holy hell I’ve watched dozens of shows he has hosted and never made that connection.
Now I can’t NOT see him as baldrick.
Baldrick was one of the best characters ever. 😂
I can’t believe he actually tasted the fermented shellfish dye 🤮
I can't believe how selfish royaltys are and still rule today.
He get's paid well to do the show for a reason.
I know! In the shows I've watched him in and saw him retching my stomach wants to do the same.
Ugh, yeah!
Worcestershire sauce- fermented anchovies
Honestly, the Falconer, that looks bloody amazing, there is somethin' truly magical there.
@Sunny Love those birds were treated better than most people, but yeah... magical birds.
Like a trained dog when you put it that way.
@@gregkral4467 fully agree! I love birds so much that I find the "as entertaining as bird watching" to be a false and idiotic statement. I am a 40 years old dude who had grown up in the countryside and when I have been a little kid in the 80s and 90s - hell, even until late 20s - I would literally stand on the dusty ground in my grandparents' backyard and watch hens, geese and ducks for 3-4 hours straight. I would only leave that place cause hunger and exhaustion would set in, but after a few 2-3 hours of relaxation and feeding I'd go back to watching (and sometimes feeding, and playing with) them until nightfall when they'd go to sleep. I would do this 10-20 times a month, every month for several years as a kid. It's probably because I have always been an introvert, thus the company of people never appealed to me, but pets (and especially birds) really have called out to me on a level that most people don't understand.
Birds are so amazing!
He tasted the shellfish dye, I want to puke. Who even discovered this? What kind of madman were they?
The falconer job is intense, but at least it's badass. I feel bad for the guys who got stuck polishing boots all day with that sulfuric acid concoction, or the women who had to lug barrels of water and destroy their hands with lye.
And there I was thinking delivering leaflets was unpleasant
I flipping LOVE this show! I can’t believe how disgusting some of these jobs were and how they all lead to death. I’m commenting from Portland, Oregon US the history of the Monarchy is like an intense soap opera.
soap opera - so funny! :D
I know right; it's fascinating and, y'know, a little awful too but it's good to learn this stuff. If you're American you may not have heard of Horrible Histories, which sounds right up your alley! It's this sketch-comedy history show, just got a TH-cam channel too.
Hello! Fellow Portlander!
I love Horrible Histories!
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30:42 Awww, look at that horsey, she looks concerned because she understands the rider hurt himself..
I find the royal food taster one of the most intriguing. One of my favourite authors Maria V Snyder one of the main characters in her books starts as a food taster. You find out in the book that there is a lot more to food tasting than most putting some food in the mouth and chewing and swallowing.
Poison study? The books are so cool
What is the title of the book please?
@@TheLadybughug the first book in the series is called poison study. The following books in order go magic study, fire study
Then it switches character for a trilogy (but includes past characters) which goes- storm glass, sea glass, spy glass. Then goes back to the original characters for a trilogy shadow study, night study, dawn study. There is also an E-book only story that overlaps night & dawn study which tells what happens to the main character in the glass trilogy + on Maria v snyders website there are short stories et between certain books.
When I started watching I though "He sure does sound a lot like Baldrick from Blackadder", then I checked the casting. Did not see that coming. Instant subscribe.
Worst jobs? You mean any job? That era was horrible!
Like every era? lol
I dunno; I'd have liked to be the chemist coming up with all those recipes. Dangerous, of course, but I'd have probably had a decent education, know how to mitigate risk as such, and have access to the fun experimentation that a science student could yearn for. Not a life I'd take over anything nowadays, but probably not as bad as the others.
Yup the Medieval era and the Age of Enlightenment, :d
@Prairiedoggen Oh? Oof.
@Prairiedoggen there's a slim difference between being a wage slave and a serf. The internet, food quality, education possibilities, and standard of living is better now than in Medieval times, though.
The purpler probably has the easiest job of all of them. You probably get used to the smell and taste after a while but all they do is crush some shells and let them sit. What's so bad about that?
*sees man ruining my bushes with preschool scissors*
...WORST ROYAL JOBS IN HISTORY!
Me: w h a t t h e f u c k.
I just get it waxed...much neater..
When the lady said "potentially dangerous" he did the exact thing with his hands our 5 month old does when she startles 😂 she throws her hands up like that and just like pretends to be praying mantis for a bit lol
So cute!😂
Hahaha
I bet the lance makers were okay with seeing them broken. It meant more business for them.
mlisaj1111 didn’t think of that, good point!
Having cheap labor available helped too.
Bragging right for the lancemaker--that the king used his lances.
@Prairiedoggen Balsa is only found in South America. Hundreds of years before Medieval Europe.
It wasn't "business." They were serfs. The Master said, "Make," and he asked, "How many?"
Parents: "Hey son what do you want to be when you grow up?"
Him: "Ancient dye researcher"
always hella weird fields of study/jobs in the history line of work lmao 😂
IcyHot I think the word you’re looking for is anthropologist
I know right!! Dream job! ! Dye maker ! Question: why did he taste test it?!!!
@@jamesstultz5860 Curiosity killed the cat; satisfaction brought it back.
@@shelbyb9965 HAHA HAHAHAHA!!!
"Hey son," is sort of a more modern times way of talking, I don't think that Medieval dads spoke that way.
Man, you've got to hand it to Tony. He's willing to do this shizen. He's tough as nails.
I will never understand how the whipping boy made sense.
@legionary anti-illuminati Yeah... Jesus accepting our sins as his own. Completely different than an innocent child basically being forced into accepting another child's punishments. I can see how you're trying to link the two. But i was more so talking about how is a child to learn to not misbehave, or consequences of life. If all his punishments get put off to another.
I think the person carrying out the punishment would have regretted it later when the monarch as an adult would later remember who spanked him and have that person executed just because he could. This is a job that nobody in their right mind would do. So they couldn't have the king to be whipped.
@legionary anti-illuminati why you gotta throw religion/jesus into it. Its people like you who turn people off jesus/christianity
Uuuuuhhhh because religion was the very justification for a monarchy's existence. Ever heard of divine right to rule? Ppl believe that god made them kinga for a reason, that they were the chosen ones, and bc god gave them that power....well, they were fit to use them however they pleased, bc after all, god chose them. Lol imagine not understanding the history of your own religion
@@Pomagranite167 You referring to me not understanding? This isn't my religion.
I'll never complain about my job again
Falcon with rabbit: MINE! Tony: ok
"We don't know anything about them. They were killed."
Well, that explains that, then.
And then a plague hits, and the royals don’t know how to clean their own shorts. That would be fun to watch.
*Rivits one ring * "I'm terrified I'll die of boredom here!"
Good god your lucky you don't work in a factory! xD
~40 years ago I worked in a factory making gears. The first station I worked at had several steps: turning, milling, milling the other side, grinding, etc. I think I made around a thousand units per day. Every step except one required me to handle each wheel manually. Repetitive, not exactly mentally taxing (but you still had to check the measurements and avoid being eaten by a machine, so you couldn't let your mind wander completely). Never boring, worked there a couple of years until that gear was taken off the product range.
One day, they wanted me to temporarily broach keyways. It was horrible. Lock the gear, run the broach, set the gear on the tray. Again and again. After half an hour, I was bored. After five hours, I was to tense to go on.
Different people can handle different things with varying tolerance. I have worked in a factory and liked that work. If I had been tasked to make mail, I would have been so bored that I would have longed for death.
@@peterlewerin4213 oh the joys of broaching! -__-
I'd still like to try making chainmail (more for the experiance) but ya if I never see a broach or spot welder again you wont see me complaning! xD
Could you imagine today, a person walking around with a square board around them, with 5 birds attached to it, “hello, hi, yeah just taking my birds for a walk”.
What a sight to see. Lol. 😆
What a well trained horse! No bit, & didn't abandon Tony when he messed up 😂 great show! Ty🥂. Hahaha! The shell fish! 🤢
The best part is Tony having to carry 4 expensive falcons 😂😂😂
The women also drowned because of their heavy skirts. They would get weighed down, and the skirts would float up and catch them. Scary.
RUTH! She's evrywhere! Always smiling doing the worst jobs possible :D
And no gloves!
It's good to see Ruth again. Love her in the life of history.
His enthusiasm towards everything including the worst jobs gives me life 😂🙏🏻
Me: *sees Ruth Goodman* HEY A CROSSOVER EPISODE
In reality, there was a lance tree back in the good ol' days, that has now gone extinct, because people were simply cutting off all his branches which looked like perfectly shaped lances.
Is that Baldrick?!
Covid-19 quarantine has me discovering a lot of good shows I didn't get to see because I wasn't born yet. ❤️
Yep, it's Baldrick.
18:29
Lady: "This is arsenic"
Tony: :O
Me: :O
Potentially dangerous. Like in movies.
I love these videos and learning about the jobs that made empires great, even if some were gross! I bow down to these folks who did these grueling, dangerous, and tedious jobs, my total respect and admiration goes to you all!
Is it just me, or does making chainmail sound oddly relaxing? I feel like it would be a good stim activity.
Yeah I think it'd be okay especially if you had coworkers to talk to
I know people who seem to enjoy making chainmails 😄 But they mostly just make them for themselves to wear. Historical enactors.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing!
I've made one chainmail bracelet once. Took FOREVER! And had I had more wire, I'd have made more. It wasn't melded like the armor but split rings, hand made. It was fun.
horsey checked on it when he fell off lol "*sniff* u good?"
Honestly, the whole dye purple thing was interesting. The whole process was like a science experiment at college.
"oh that funny history man is coming to do some filming today so we can do what we like, lets give him the holey waders and a bit of a whipping"
3:00
Guy with glasses: he was nearly killed
Guy with glasses: he was inches from death:
Guy with glasses: the lance broke above his eye injuring the king.
Guy with glasses: it’s remarkable he wasn’t injured...
🔨🧐 he was or he wasn’t. Can’t have been at deaths door and said oh hello death, it’s just a flesh wound.
Lol
Right! I thought the same thing when I heard that part lol
@smarts I thought this was due to falling from a horse. I looked it up and it suggests both could have contributed. Either way, not something you want a ruler to have when in control 😬
You are magically hilarious.
@smarts or it's a two minute interview and they edited out a bunch of stuff.
Had to pause just to say Tony's face when he's watching the falcons is sooo adorable!!
There would be a lot of satisfaction in making a teapot ,out of chocolate. EATING IT AFTER.
Evie Doowup the point is that the minute you put boiling tea into it, it’d melt, lasting about as long as a lance in a tournament.
@@patriciaorourke1816 I've always wanted to see if I could make an effective chocolate teapot. It'd be single-use, certainly, but just maybe it could survive long enough to brew something...
It would be more like someone one else dumping tea into it and constantly forgetting to drink or eat any of it while it just melted all over and was washed away lol.
A bite-sized teapot might be good
love this show so much! you guys deserve more views
Geez, glad I’m a peasant not involved in royalty at all.
This was so great, thank you so much for giving me a good laugh. Tony handling the shellfish is me at work, or thinking of work when I'm not there
MY GOD!!!! Groom of the Queen's chambers, what a Herculean Task....
"wind, rain, 200 miles and people waiting to kill me" earning money is never easy then and now...
Easier for some. When you realize how much actual wealth there is, and how disproportionately it's distributed, you might come to realize how little you're being paid for what you do. Depends, doesn't it?
The Lance Making Master Carpenter being cut off by Host and while holding a hatchet and making Capricorn remarks, is the best!
*mixes plaster into food* *absently eats a spoonful* *cue slow realization on his face while she talks about the real effects what the plaster was standing for*
I'm sure someone let him know that fuchsia pink and lime green dyes tend toward synthetic compositions and would have been even more difficult to acquire than the deaths of mere thousands of unfortunate shellfish.
Also, while you couldn't commission a set of smancy king's maille in a single night and day, you could get a fairly decent set as a regular (well, still somewhat wealthy) knight in that short of time, as armorers could pre-make items to a semi-standard size and leave the "seams" open. They would then "sew" them up with a line of links, or re-size them as necessary with similarly pre-made gussets of maille.
i love seeing ruth goodman. i love all of her shows so much. shes got such a good drive to just live the time
I love how enthusiastic the host is
He's the British Mike Rowe.
Ugh it's 6:30am and I gotta sleep! Maybe one more video...🤔
🤣
they would have the whipping boy be a friend it was a lesson in your actions effect othrers
People just dont get it, im glad you do. The whipping boy was a tool to control the prince. They could not hit the prince because he was royalty, so they hit his best friend, the whipping boy, to make the prince feel bad and so behave.
@@SeverusStudios1980 it's not a difficult concept.
This makes me want to start a revolution, and i'm not even in the middle ages.
This show is incredible
I have heard in the past, there were something like14' lathes used, and that alone would have been difficult to power..... I am sure, there was a few shops that were attatched to a waterwheel that did much of this work, with several helpers..... We don't have much of that kind of lathe used for that kind of size anymore, you would need wood cutters, sorters, planers or draw knife workers, boilers, straighteners, then cutters and planing...... Again, I commented without actually watching the whole thing through, sorry folks... got excited about what I knew and what you knew working together...
A wive to run the household, cooks, laundry, scullery and chambermaids.
@@fionafiona1146 what's a Chambermaid, what eras did they work and what was their pay compared to say a scullary maid, just out of curiosity?
@@benandjerrys338
Households that could afford to seperate maid's duties into multiple roles had "upstairs" maids to do basic cleaning and tidying (including chamber pots and fire duties) those would be the highest paid staff underneath any ladies maid still referred to as "maid" and accordingly have wages that were some 20-60% higher than a scullery maid in the same household
Tea pots made out of chocolate sounds oddly satisfying...just saying.
@Livia Wong and none of them would remain solid long enough to hold any tea, much less pour it. Which is why it would be unsatisfying.
I love Tony as one of the hosts. Hats off to him for trying every job.
Love this channel as well! Very enlightening.
I dont care what Tony Robinson is discussing - I want to hear it! ❤🙂
I can't stop laughing after he tasted that purple die. That is absolute me!
Watching these videos makes me really appreciate being born at this time.
guess we'v learned Tony's not into some kinky stuff😂😂
These jobs sound pretty good for the times, probably quite honorable and well-paid. I'd imagine horrible jobs would include emptying latrines, removing dead bodies from battlefields, removing trash and dead animals from the streets.
Yes, those were horrible jobs, mucking the royal stables or those of your local lord,emptying latrines etc.
My late father was in the US Airforce.In the late 1950s he did a tour of duty,TDY as the military call it, to England and Germany. When he visited relatives in Garmisch, he visited the local parish, and the priest let him see the parish records. Apparently one of the Hilperts in the 1690s had been a burgermeister, and had also served as a steward to Maximillan II Eugene, Prince Elector of Bavaria.Some of the relatives in the Black Forest were hereditary foresters. When or how they got that honor don't know. I recall him saying his family was the german version of the english landed gentry. I guess according to records he checked when back in the old country, the family did pretty well for themselves.
14:09 awwwwwww tony's face seeing the falcon fly is just the sweetest
Ruth Goodman! Recognized her voice instantly. The Farm series was awesome.
There is a strange satisfaction in hearing Baldrick rant on about horrible jobs...Must be the four lifetimes of experience he got from Blackadder.
I absolutely *cherish* this channel!!
I absolutely loved this channel! I hit the like button before even seeing the video! That how much!
Tony: falls off horse..
Horse: ...? You good man? You took a tumble there
Imagine being the guy jousting against king Henry VIII
I've heard that when KIng Henry the 8th got sick someone had to wipe his butt after he purged his dinner.
He fully spat into the "royal" dye 🤣
The flip side for the lance maker is that he had job security.
A very interesting video. Most of these works were still around in India till about 30 years ago. The purple (or any other) dye was prepared from plants and spices.
The whole court of the Viceroy (Governor) of colonial India moved to a hill station at beginning of summer and moved back down when the rains came. The Gov's stuff ran into about 200 boxes, including all his files and papers. As if that was not enough, the top brass of the Army and all the High Courts moved in the same manner.
Washermen, or women used bats but had soap, as I have seen.
I have done boot polishing myself (thank God, not as a profession). Cobblers and boot polish boys are still around. But thanks to Reckitt and Coleman Co., we had ready made boot polish in a tin can.
This came on autoplay while I was working, and as soon as I heard the voice I was like "Baldrick?? What're you doing here?" then looked over to the tab and read the video title. "Ah, yes, perfect for you, Baldrick"
Is it bad that when Tony Robinson popped up my first thought was, "Oh my god its Baldrick!"
I've always known that making the color purple was hard, and now I get to know how it's done!! Very cool. Thank you ☺️☺️☺️💜💜💜
21:20 - nothing's more authentically Medieval 1500s than hearing "Greensleeves" on a recorder
there's this deafening high pitched sound that grows more and more towards the end, i couldn't watch the whole thing, but this is great
This show does a great job of taking about 15 minutes worth of actually informative content and stretching it out to fill an hour's worth of time
Dude love tony's videos
Tony Robinson's doccos are legendary and always worth watching.
You are amazing! 😁👍🏽Greetings from San José, Costa Rica.
Only just discovered this series, I guess I'm gonna waste many hours now, because this is absolutely wonderful.
The sport is called falconry but that was a hawk (Harris' hawk)
Jane Fondle: I read an article (Wikipedia) that hawks were (or still are) used in falconry. You wrote it was a Harris's hawk. What would falconry be like when they used tomahawks?
You just have to love Toni's enthusiasm 😊😊
I heard King Henry Viii had a joust strike his leg and then infection set in that had to be packed with herbs and soaked. It was one reason he had started to gain weight. The rest of his weight came on due to the depression that he had, because he couldn't move very well, and he was supposed to be very athletic before the accident.
Fireworks were used in ancient China, but I guess the English didn't get the memo on how they were to be used.
🇨🇦 omg I loved watching this video! Wow so interesting! Thank you so much
CA! CA! CA!
That was so educational boy what a life loved watching this
So realistic and unable to switch off the video because it's so terribly good. Thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks .Salisbury Park , Pune.
Truly, what amazing birds..... wonderful.... magical.
imagine giving a king a pepper and he sends his guards at you saying it burns feels like poison