INFAMOUS YEARS IN HISTORY 1067- William the Conqueror grants "ye lands in ye swarde of Macc's feld to Jean de Normandie,          henceforth Sir John de Macclesfield." 1081- In an amazing coincidence, John builds his castle at one end of Castle Street-          right next to Macc Donald's. 1086- The Domesday Book entry reveals Macclesfield to have a population of 12,          land for four ploughs, and thirteen alehouses. 1281- Macc O'Polo walks the Silk Road and makes contact with the outside world.          He reaches Buxton (1281), Leek (1282) and China (1283).
1286- Macc brings home spices; silk; mints; tea; gunpowder and Gordon:-          an oriental entrepreneur.
1287- Gordon establishes an emporium on the banks of the local river.          It is a place where fighting takes place after the alehouses are drunk dry. 1290- Gordon begins to sell hot turnips for the crowds that gather to watch the fights. 1301-Trout is added to the menu. Fish and Nips becomes the local delicacy. 1346- The local archery team visits Picardy and defeat 20,000 French knights on the field of Crécy.          They return with blood-soaked mud from the battlefield, complete  with spinal cords,          hair and bits of brain. They present this mud to           Gordon as a momento of their deeds:            "Behold the soil of Picardy, where many frogs were bashed this day,             .... and now lieth in their graves." 1347- Gordon invents gravy, and begins to market 'nips and glavy'. 1431- Joan of Arse burned at the stake. The decision was taken to burn her body          as engineers could not dig a hole big enough to bury her.
1484- Gordon takes advantage of the Wars of the Roses,            and gets the contract to clean up the battlefields.            His new menu features cold peasant with boiled lice. 1485- A hungry hunchback is spotted in Gordon's shouting:                    "A horseburger! A horseburger!                     My kingdom for a horseburger."
1523- Local fat bastard Macc Ear, cultivates an enormous belly.          He eats dried worms, puppies, and even children in his search for greatness.          He travels the world displaying his huge gut: The Macc Ear Belly.          Eventually he becomes rich- proving that the end justifies the means.          He died of obesity in Florence, where locals took to eating his dried worm recipe-          and called it Macc Irony.
1564- Birth of William Shakesbeer- bard of Macclesfield.          He writes a series of rude plays and beery ballads:           King Beer, Macc Breath, & Toilet and Cressida. 1588- William has a bastard son with a local trollop called Baggy Anne Hathaway.          The boy is known throughout the Shire as Smuttley (for his dirty mind)           Mucklad (as he works in a sty). Mucklad pens several sonnets including:           My Lady Muck, Hogbashing, Lads from Muck, and I Love Muck. 1603- Courageous sea dog, Sir Salty Raleigh sails round the world,          and returns with a potato, a guitar and twenty Embassy No1.
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