Tradition says that

in 1040, she rode on her palfrey naked through the town of Coventry on her husband’s promise that if she would do so he would relieve the inhabitants of certain exactions which bore heavily on them. She had first proclaimed that no one should leave his house before noon, that all windows and _ other apertures in the houses should be closed, and that no one should even look out till noon was past. Only one person, “ Peeping Tom,” the story says, attempted to look out, and he was immediately struck blind. A yearly pageant, in which a P a = woman enacted the part of Godiva, was long kept up at Coventry, and still occasionally takes place.