you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 15 points 1 day ago

Things titled people do are written down, so there's a record.

Probably, people had done this for centuries--as long as there's been bread--and it had different names, and no one thought anything about it. It wasn't important enough to write down until an Earl did it, and needed his ego stroked over it.

  • source