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Could there be ‘More’ to this Tomb?

Jun 23, 2024

buildings, genealogy, religion

Dorset, esses, graveyards, melplash, More family, netherbury, thomas fuller, Thomas More, tombs, william purchase

While out churchcrawling, I recently visited the rather remote Dorset church of St Mary’s at Netherbury. We were looking for the tomb of my partner’s ancestor, William Purchase, who was lord of the manor in the early 1800’s. We found his posh tomb in the graveyard…but when we looked in the church, I found another…
ANOTHER PRECIOUS FIND TO ADD TO THE MIDDLEHAM JEWEL AND RING..

May 13, 2022

archaeology, art, buildings, religion, sources

Anne Beauchamp, Anne Neville, British Museum, Calais, Cheapside, childbirth, Coverham Abbey, Dennington, East Park, esses, gold bible, goldsmiths, Henry IV, Isobel Neville, Jervaulx Abbey, John Cherry, John of Gaunt, Lancastrians, London Bridge, Lord Bardolph, Middleham Jewel, Middleham Ring, Nevilles, Rous Roll, Sheriff Hutton, St. Leonard, St. Margaret, Suffolk, Ted Seaton, York Museum

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com The Middleham Jewel, AD 1450-1500. Photo Anthony Chappel Ross, Courtesy York Museums Trust. Two metal detectorists have recently had a sumptous litte find. A tiny gold bible beautifully engraved. Which is great. But what makes their find super great is that it is yet another discovery made near the remains…
Leslau, Holbein, More and Clement

Nov 23, 2020

anniversaries, art, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, Science

“Princes”, Dr. John Clement, Duchy of Lancaster, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Erasmus, esses, Fleet prison, fleuur-de-lys, flowers, Germany, Hans Holbein, Henry Patterson, Henry VIII, infrared photography, Jack Leslau, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Fisher, John Harris, jousting, Latin, Louvain, Matt Lewis, Mechelen, peonies, Pilgrimage of Grace, rebus, Richard III, Rowlandas Lockey, royal arms, Seneca, Sir Anthony Wingfield, Sir Edward Guildford, The Family of Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, Tower of London, Utopia, William Cecil

Before I begin, I have two words of warning. The first is that a huge spoiler for my novels Loyalty and the sequel Honour unavoidably follows. Just so that you know! Secondly, the following is my telling of the theory researched and expounded by Jack Leslau, an amateur art enthusiast who believed that he stumbled…

esses

Could there be ‘More’ to this Tomb?

ANOTHER PRECIOUS FIND TO ADD TO THE MIDDLEHAM JEWEL AND RING..

Leslau, Holbein, More and Clement