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Pucklechurch and the death of a king….

May 26, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, culture, religion, sources

Ashburton’s History of England, Devon, Domesday Book, Dorset, Edmund I, Glastonbury Abbey, jelly, Kings of Wessex, Malmesbury, mediaeval food, murder, Pucklechurch, St. Aldham, St. Augustine’s Day, St. Thomas Becket, Star Inn, whitepot

According to The Folklore of Gloucestershire by Roy Palmer, there was a traditional dish in the south of the county known as whitepot, and it was served at Whit Sunday “revels”. The ingredients of whitepot were: “….four quarts of milk, a pound of flour, a pound of golden syrup, eight eggs, two ounces of butter,…
Sir Bevis Bulmer – son of Smithfield

May 25, 2021

anniversaries, genealogy, law, religion

Elizabeth I, executions, Ireland, James VI/I, John Dee, Lady Margaret Bulmer, Lowther Hills, mining engineers, Pilgrimage of Grace, Robert Aske, Scotland, silver, Sir Bevis Bulmer, Sir John Bulmer, Smithfield, Staffords, Wriothesley’s Chronicle

Bevis Bulmer certainly didn’t have a good start in life. He was about one when his parents were executed for high treason on the same day in May 1537, having been caught up in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Sir John, from a prominent Yorkshire family, was hanged and beheaded whilst Margaret, his mother who may…
THE TUDOR CROWN UNEARTHED

May 23, 2021

anniversaries, art, battles, religion

“Lancastrian”, Charles I, crown, English Civil War, Henry VI, Henry VII, Henry VIII, insanity, Market harborough, metal detecting, Naseby, Oliver Cromwell, St. Edmund, St. Edward the Confessor

A metal detector enthusiast has come up with an impressive find that may be worth a cool £2 million. Tucked away in a hole in a field field near Market Harborough was a tiny figure made of pure gold. This figure is believed to be from the ‘Tudor Crown’ designed by Henry VII for state…
THE STONOR PAPERS, LOVE LETTERS THEREIN..

May 21, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion, sources

Agnes Winnard, Anne Neville the younger, attainder, Barnet, Buckingham rebellion, correspondence, Elizabeth Croke, Elizabeth Wydeville, John Neville Marquis of Montagu, Kingsford, merchants, Richard of Warwick, Simon Stallworth, Sir William Stonor, Ston, Stonor Letters and Papers, Stonor Park, Taunton Castle, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Westminster Abbey

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Being of somewhat a silly old romantic I was pleasantly surprised to read in the blurb of Kingsford’s Stonor Letter and Papers 1290-1483 that there were love letters to be found among them. And what could possibly be nicer than a medieval love letter? And there they were, letters from…
Buckingham’s Cousin: the Quiet Stafford

May 15, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, religion

Anne Neville, Blackheath, churches, Constance Greene, Cornish rebellion, coronation procession, Drayton House, Earls of Wiltshire, Edward Earl of Wiltshire, Edward of Buckingham, executions, Fotheringhay, Henry Greene, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Hexham, Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, John Earl of Wiltshire, Knights of the Bath, Lowick, Staffords, tomb effigies

In the sleepy little village of Lowick in Northamptonshire stands a fine medieval church with a tall octagonal ‘lantern’ tower that bears some similarity to that at Fotheringhay. It is normally kept locked but if you are very, very lucky you can track down the key in the village. There are many fine tomb effigies…
The many wonders of medieval Caversham

May 14, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Catherine of Aragon, Caversham, Caversham Park, Countess of Warwick, Dean’s Farm, Despensers, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Our Lady of Caversham, Oxfordshire, pilgrims, Reading, relics, St. Anne, St. James, Thames, Walsingham, William Marshall

Caversham is just across the Thames from Reading. The present bridge carrying the main road between the two places is modern, but it is more or less on the site of a medieval stone and timber bridge, dating from between 1163 and 1231. Sources vary as to whether it had one, two or three chapels,…
A visit to Beccles (2016)

May 11, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Azincourt, Beccles, Beccles Museum, Crowfoot family, Dorothy Hodgkin, East Suffolk Line, grammar school, graveyards, Horatio Nelson, Leman House, Lord Mayors of London, marriages, Nobel Prize winners, Norfolk Broads, Sir John Leman, St. Michael’s Beccles, Suffolk, Warwickshire

Originally posted on Mid Anglia Group, Richard III Society: To visit this town, by the southern extremity of the Broads, the Group assembled at the King’s Head, a short walk from Beccles station on the East Suffolk Line. After this, we met Murray’s late grandfather James Woodrow, local historian, to show us around the town.…
The More I Read

May 6, 2021

anniversaries, religion, The play’s the thing

“Princes”, denialists, Dighton, executions, Henry VIII, heresy cases, Huddersfield, Lord Chancellor, Miles Forest, Richard Hunne, sandbagging, Sir John Tyrrell, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, William Shakespeare

A paper by Professor Tim Thornton of the University of Huddersfield, first published on 28 December 2020, has reached the national press with claims … The More I Read
She also married in secret …

May 5, 2021

anniversaries, law, religion

Adele, Andre Previn, Beatrice, birthdays, denialists, Ed Sheeran, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, John Ashdown-Hill, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Louis XIV, Royal Marriage Secrets, secret marriage

… and, to add to Louis XIV, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Andre Previn, Ed Sheeran and Princess Beatrice, we can now add the singer Adele to the list – she appears to have married in 2016 but divorced in 2019. In Cairo, they will still maintain that Edward IV married in secret in 1464,…
Medieval spies….

May 4, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion

Bristol, Church of England, Churchdown, Edward IV, Gloucester, Ian Arthurson, Margaret of Anjou, River Severn, Robinswood Hill, spies, Tewkesbury

Thanks to a post on the Richard III Society Forum, I was steered to the following interesting Ian Arthurson article about medieval spying. We know that the Tudors excelled in this dangerous world, but it’s not so well known that it was quite rife during the Wars of the Roses as well. Royalty—and the Church—always…