Treaties

There is a fascinating wikipeadia webpage that appears to list all the treaties from the treaty between the cities of Lagash and Umma in Mesopotamia, circa BC2100, setting a boundary between their two states, up to the rather inneffectual 2015 Treaty of Minsk between Russia and Ukraine.

As I was rapidly paging through the list, various exotic and romantic names flashed past: Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty of 716...Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum 878...the golden bull of Sicily 1212...Treaty of Nymphaeum 1262...the Compromise of Caspe 1412...the Treaty of Constantinople (1479)...Treaty of Woking 1490...Alliance treaty between Geneva, Berne and Fribourg...the

WHOOOA...hold on there Tonto.
I screech to a halt.

What the,,, THE TREATY OF WOKING???
That's what it says, Kemosabe

Surely I read it wrong. Probably The Treaty of Whoaxshing between the hill peoples of fourteenth century Manchuria and the Nuristani tribesmen of the Hindukush at the very least?

I back up.

And there it is:

"The Treaty of Woking 1490. An agreement developed between England and the nascent Spain. Its provisions accomplished four goals: the establishment of a common policy regarding France, the reduction of tariffs between the two countries, the arrangement of a marriage contract between Arthur Tudor, eldest son of Henry VII of England, and Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. and most crucially, banning the use of mobility scooters on the Esplanade after 4.00pm between The Golden Cornet Ice Cream Parlour and Beasley's Novelty Rock Emporium."


Bollocks to the Treaty of Woking. I'm off for a Mivvi