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Part 1: Medieval Tennis - Fun and Death
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Part 1 of the history of royal tennis. A ball game once practised by 12th century monks, up against monastic walls, it came to be the favoured sport of medieval kings. But even as sovereigns played on their own newly constructed courts, medieval tennis would be at the heart of several sudden, brutal, and unusual deaths among those, who ruled.
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