Reviews of Beating the Bounds, Tower Hill
Review by Armyn Hennessy on 29th November, 2009
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It's so long ago I forget how I heard of it. However I am a blue-badge tour guide and I was interested to experience the event, and was able to join the onlookers. I followed the procession, which included choir boys and priests, and if I remember officials of The Tower. At some point we loaded up onto two boats and watched a choir boy lowered head first over the side of the other boat and beat the water where a boundary was supposed to be. Does this go back to Saxon days? There was a gentleman given a large stretch of land by The Tower which was his to the edge of the lowest tide. Well, so, Xerxes is not the only one to beat water. We do it here every three years, but here it's not a punishment.
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