Dickie Pearce – last court jester, fell off castle battlements, got state burial.
Anon
Llantrissant Folk 2023
Quote:
“The last of the court jesters was Dicky Pearce he was the Earl of Suffolk’s fool, born in 1665 …In 1728 during a performance he overbalanced from the minstrel gallery and fell to his death. The question has been raised -did he fall or was he pushed he had apparently made fun of one of Lord Berkeley’s guests who had taken offence, the truth will never be known.” Cotswolds Info.
https://www.cotswolds.info/strange-things/last-court-jester.shtml