For a start, around half the scenes depict a priest – complete with the characteristic bald patch, or "tonsure" haircut, and robes – duelling with a scholar. This alone is highly unorthodox. Does this mean fencing was a common pastime at monasteries? Is it even possible that disgraced nobles like Essex may have continued honing their skills after enrolling as a monk? Or is the inclusion of the religious figures somehow symbolic? The book"s earliest recorded home was, in fact, a monastery. But to this day, no one knows.