The opening title card refers to war in the 'marshlands' between England and Wales. This is presumably a misunderstanding of the term 'Welsh marches', 'march' means borderland and is the origin of the noble title marquess (fem. marchioness) meaning the feudal lord of a march.
at 31:10 where the seated man tells the original punisher to "find yourself another shire where you can peddle your brutal gifts," the speaker is wielding a pencil from Ticonderoga, with a metal end and an eraser nub.