Royal Maundy pence to each of fifty poor men. It is not known, however, whether it was as yet the practice each year to have the number of pence and the number of recipients track the monarch's age: Henry IV was the first monarch to decree that the number of pence given be determined by the monarch's age. The ceremony was not always performed on Maundy Thursday; it could be postponed a day to Good Friday by royal command, as it was in 1510. Nobles could hold their own Maundy distributions, as did Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland in the early
Thursday October Christian I house was the oldest building still standing on the island, until it was demolished on 12 March 2004 because of termite damage. Thursday's life story was written by R. M. Ballantyne in "The Lonely Island; or, The Refuge of the Mutineers" (1880). He also appears in Charles Dickens' "The Long Voyage" (1853). Thursday October Christian is also mentioned on the Rasputina album "Oh Perilous World". Thursday October Christian I Thursday October Christian (14 October 1790 – 21 April 1831) was the first son of Fletcher Christian (leader of the historical mutiny on the "Bounty") and his Tahitian wife Mauatua. He