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The following are the attempts made to figure out the hidden meaning of this particular piece of “a great puzzle”…

A description of the medieval 'Great' or 'Old Custom' wool tax of 1275, which survived until the fifteenth century. Contrary to some commentaries, this tax did not involve the collection of one-third to the king, and one-third to the church, but a less punitive sum of 6s 8d to the Crown per sack, about 5 per cent of the value. This theory also depends on it surviving unrecorded and even unmentioned in extant texts for hundreds of years.

It is connected to the slave trade. This explanation was advanced during debates over political correctness, but scholars agree that it has no basis in fact. The adjective that offers pretext of slave trade was modified to many other adjectives like “sad, happy, pink and hopping”

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