She grinned. Fun. Does that mean another trip to England for research? I volunteer as tribute.

He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.

Loseby was telling them that he was in a spot of bother. That's what he called it. But somehow he always managed to get out of spots of bother. Or someone got him out.

Explained a Curtiz assistant: We had three ravens in Assisi; one died of cold, and another flew the coop.