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The Parliamentary Fart Of 1607 - Henry Ludlow, the man who became immortal for farting in the Houses of Parliament

In 1601 Henry Ludlow became the Member of Parliament for Andover and then, in 1604, for the constituency of Ludgershall, near Salisbury. He had a bit of a reputation for irascibility and in December 1602 was accused of the attempted murder of Joel King, a former servant of his father’s who had had the audacity to elope with one of Ludlow’s sisters. There were allegedly two assaults on the…