bank’. He was also said to
have established contests on
the Thames, when it was
common for members of the
aristocracy to sponsor
working men to swim for a
wager.
Swimming and ‘foot races’
became fashionable in
England during his reign,
explains The Badminton
Library, and when Colonel
Blood was arrested in 1672
for stealing the Crown Jewels
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