Tom Holland

Gorgeous.

So just imagine the scene.

You're there as a Spaniard.

There's a load of mummies being paraded around with their fingernails, teeth and other things.

And meanwhile, people are constantly relieving themselves into these massive overflowing drains of urine.

So it's like being at a festival, I guess.

Yeah, it's kind of Glastonbury, isn't it?

Or the Rest is History Festival at Hampton Court this summer.

I don't think that the people who will be coming to our wonderful festival will be urinating and bringing the mummies of their ancestors.

I mean, I may be surprised.

Who knows?

Yeah.

But I don't think so.

I put nothing past the members of the Rest is History Club, quite frankly.

So the climax of this event, it's the Spanish who take charge.

Vicente de Valverde reads mass, and then they parade into the square where Manco is sitting on a stool surrounded by his nobles.

And then Pizarro's secretary, Pedro Sancho, reads out for all to hear the requirement, which we've discussed earlier.

It's this mad legal thing that the Spanish have to read

the history of the world, the story of Christ, the history of the papacy, and it's like a brilliant Restless History series, and the Spanish monarchy, and then the legal obligation of the Incas to accept the Pope, the Church, and the King of Spain.

And then it ends with this warning, which always amuses me,