Bad Mercy
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Badlesmere, a small town south of Faversham. It was named for a line of Kentish noblemen, the first of whom, Baron Bartholomew Badlesmere, was hanged for treason at Canterbury in 1322 after opposing King Edward II in the Earl of Lancaster's rebellion. "Mere" is the Old English word for a body of water; the name means "Badle's/Baeddel's pool". In Riddley Walker, the town is later renamed Weaping.
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