EVERy nation embraced & adorned the popular romance of Arthur,
Art Neuendorffer
<<Asterix lives around 50 BC in a fictional village in northwest
*ARMORICA* (a region of ancient Gaul mostly identical to modern
Brittany). This village is celebrated amongst the Gauls as the only
part of that country not yet conquered by Julius Caesar & his Roman
legions. The inhabitants of the village gain superhuman strength
by drinking a magic potion prepared by the druid Getafix (French:
Panoramix). The village is surrounded by the ocean on one side,
and four Roman garrisons on the other, intended to keep a
watchful eye & ensure that the Gauls do not get up to mischief.>>
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Part V.
http://read.cnread.net/cnread1/ewjd/g/gibbon/hor/162.htm
.
<<In Wales & *ARMORICA* (Brittany), the Celtic tongue, the native
idiom of the West, was preserved & propagated; and the Bards,
who had been the companions of the Druids, were still
protected, in the 16th century, by the laws of Elizabeth.>>
.
<<Pilgrimage, & the holy wars, introduced into Europe the
specious miracles of Arabian magic. Fairies & giants,
flying dragons, and enchanted palaces, were blended with
the more simple fictions of the West; and the fate of
Britain depended on the art, or the predictions, of Merlin.
.
EVERy nation embraced & adorned the popular romance of Arthur,
& the Knights of the Round Table: their names were celebrated
in Greece & Italy; and the voluminous tales of Sir Lancelot &
*Sir TRISTRAM* were devoutly studied by the princes & nobles,
who disregarded the genuine heroes & historians of antiquity.>>
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Hermes Trismegistus > Tristram-gistus > TristRAM.
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. _Finnegans Wake_ introduction...
.
Sir TristRAM, violer *d'AMORES* ,
fr'over the short sea, had passen-core rearrived
from North *ARMORICA* on this side the scraggy isthmus
of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war:
nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated
.
. themselse to LAURENS County's gorgios
.
while they went doublin their mumper all the time:
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Newsgroups: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: libyad...@aol.com (Libyad817)
Date: 2000/09/19
Subject: Re: Numa's burned books
.
Gaius Caligula in 40 A.D. banished the misnamed Herod Antipas &
Herodias (so-called in the unreliable histories of Flavius Josephus)
to Lugdunensis - which includes present-day Brittany or Bretaigne
in France; the Bretons often refer to it to this day as *ARMORICA*
(which, I think, notwithstanding the specious attribution to someone
known as Amerigo Vespucci, is the origin of the name AMERICA).
Anyway, it is this ERODOS PHIL.I.P (as referred in the Nabatean
archaeologies recently uncovered, not Philippos - lover of horses
as referred to erroneously by so-called scholars of the Gospels . . .
but Phil-I-Patris, Lover of his People {see Bowersock's outstanding
studies in "Roman Arabia"} as all Roman historians know, most
of the coins and carvings were abbreviated. Phil.i.p and this
so called Antipas are one and the same man, notwithstanding
the wildly inconsistent and contradictory non-analyses of most
Biblical scholarship, and the hopeless confusion of Josephus.)
.
So, it was in the company of his banished King and Queen that Joseph
of Aramathae took the Grail [Gras-El, the Stomach of God - but that
is another discussion for another time!] to BRETONNE, and thence,
to Caer Melyn (whom the later French troubadours translated as
Camelot) above present-day CaerDydd (Cardiff, Wales), across
the French Channel. The close linguistic and historical connection
to this day between the latter-Kelts in *ARMORICA* and Wales
and Cornwales is well known; as is the sacred island of ENEZ
AVAL not far from Lannion in the Bretaigne peninsula.
.
From there, via the native myths that came from Libya (there is much
scholarship available of the African origins of ancient Cymry)
in the 'Pedeir Keinc y Mabonogi' and many other primary sources,
Pryderi the son of King Pwyll was Arthwyr. Britain comes from
Prydein, the Kingdom of Pryderi - as his relative
King Llyr well knew, as Kit Marlowe well knew.>
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_A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man ~ 3 years
_Ulysses took seven years.
_Finnegans Wake_ /"Work in Progress": 17 years
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riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from SW-ERVE of shore
to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of
recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
*Sir Tristram, violer d'AMORES* , fr'over the short sea, had
passencore rearrived from North *ARMORICA* on this side the scraggy
isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor
had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse
to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper
all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a
kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair
in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.
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. ARM(a v)IR(umque) CANO
.
. Arma virumque cano,
. Troiae qui primus ab oris
.
. Arms I sing, and the man, who first,
. from the shores of Troy came,
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. The scraggy isthmus of Britain/Brittany
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. Sir Tristram of Lyonesse/Cornwall/Brittany
.
http://www.bulfinch.org/tales/chiv13.html
http://www.employees.org/~pcorless/pendragon/tristram.txt
http://www.crosswinds.net/~obscurio/swinb4.html
.
<<Tristrem, Tristan, or Tristam. Son of Rouland Rise, Lord of Ermonie,
and Blanche Fleur, sister of Marke, King of Cornwall. Having lost both
his parents, he was brought up by his uncle. Tristram, being wounded in
a duel, was cured by Ysolde, daughter of the Queen of Ireland, and on
his return to Cornwall told his uncle of the beautiful princess. Marke
sent to solicit her hand in marriage, and was accepted. Ysolde married
the king, but was in love with the nephew, with whom she had guilty
connection. Tristram being banished from Cornwall, went to Brittany,
and married Ysolt of the White Hand, daughter of the Duke of Brittany.
Tristram then went on his adventures, and, being wounded, was informed
that he could be cured only by Ysolde. A messenger is dispatched to
Cornwall, and is ordered to hoist a white sail if Ysolde accompanies him
back. The vessel came in sight with a white sail displayed; but Ysolt of
the White Hand, out of jealousy, told her husband that the vessel had a
black sail flying, and Tristram instantly expired. Sir Tristram was one
of the knights of the Round Table. Gotfrit of Strasbourg, a German
minnesänger (minstrel) at the close of the twelfth century, composed
a romance in verse, entitled Tristan et Isolde. It was continued by
Ulrich of Turheim, by Henry of Freyberg, and others, to the extent
of many thousand verses.>>
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. Third Census of Finnegans Wake - Adaline Glasheen
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Joyce/FW/Glasheen/tristan.htm
.
TRISTAN, Tristram - (1) sorrow as opposed to, interchangeable with,
or reversed into joy (2) Sir Amory Tristram from Armorica (Brittany),
one of Ireland's Norman conquerors, founder of the St Lawrence
(qv) family of Howth (qv; see also Tristram Tree); when in FW II,iv,
Tristan takes Isolde (qv) he is also the stranger who takes Ireland,
a girl who has solid ivory where her brains should be; (3) Tristan
of Lyonnesse, nephew (qv) of Mark of Cornwall (q.v.), lover of
Isolde of Ireland, his "aunt" (q.v.); Tristan is also her
husband, in name only, of Isolde of the White Hands (q.v.).
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lyra wrote:
> (quote, excerpts)
> .............................................
> A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRITTANY
> Compiled By Judy Drew
.
> ANCIENT AMOR
.
> B.C
.
> Peninsula inhabited by little known people who erect Megaliths
.
> 600 : Arrival of the Celts who call the peninsula AMOR
> (the country of the sea)
.
> 56 : Caesar destroys the fleet of the Veneti tribe, conquers AMOR
> and for the next 4 centuries, Roman civilization does its work
.
> A.D.
.
> Barbarian invasion returns the province to near savagery
.
> 460 :Immigration of the British Celts who are driven from Britain
> by the Angels and the Saxons. Over the next 2 centuries, the Celts
> convert the area to Christianity and rename the peninsula
> LITTLE BRITAIN
.
> 799 : Charlemagne subjugates Brittany
.
> THE DUCHY OF BRITTANY
.
> 826 : Louis the Pious creates Nominoe of Vannes Duke of Brittany.
> Nomino brings all Brittany under his authority and defeats Charles the
> Bold near Redon, ending Frankish suzerainty. He founds independent
> Duke Dynasty which lasts for over a century.
.
> 851 :Erispoe (son of Nominoe) takes the title King of Brittany. He is
> assassinated by his cousin Salomon who reigns from 857. He extends
> Brittany to include Anjou and Cotentin.
> Salomon was assassinated in 874
>
> 919 : Norseman invade.
.
> 939 : King Alain Barb-Tort drives out the Normans
.
> 952 : King Alain Barb-Tort dies. Local nobles defy his successors and
> the peninsula returns to disorder and poverty which lasts nearly into
> the 14th century
.
> 1341 : The War of Succession begins on the death of Duke Jean de
> Monfort III. Jean ne de Penthiévre, wife of Charles of Blois,
> supported by the French fights her brother Jean de Monfort,
> ally of the English for the Duchy
.
> 1364 : Charles of Blois defeated and killed at Auray.
> Brittany is ruined once again by war.
.
> THE MONTFORTS
.
> 1364 to 1468 : The house of Montfort restores Brittany and there
> follows a brilliant period. The arts flourish and the Dukes pay
> homage to France in theory only. They are regarded as sovereigns.
> Constable de Richemont, the companion in arms to Joan of Arc,
> succeeds his brother as Duke of Brittany
.
> 1483 : Duke Francois II who has entered into the coalition
> against the regent of France is defeated at St Aubin du Cormieu
> and dies. His daughter Anne of Brittany succeeders him.
.
> BRITTANY REUNITES WITH FRANCE
.
> 1491 : Anne of Brittany marries Charles VIII but remains Duchess
> and sovereign of Brittany
.
> 1499 : Charles VIII dies and Anne returns to the Duchy
.
> 1499 : Louis XII repudiates his wife and marries Anne of Brittany,
> who remains Duchess of Brittany, which remains separate from France
.
> 1514 : Anne of Brittany dies and is succeeded by her daughter
> Claude of France. She marries Francois of Angoulmême,
> later Francois I of France
.
> 1532 : Claude cedes her Duchy to Francois I who has this
> permanent reunion of Brittany and France ratified
> at the Parliament of Vannes
.
> FRENCH BRITTANY
.
> 1588 : Brittany rebels against its Governor, The Duke of Mercoer,
> who attempting to profit from the League tries to seize the province.
> Bandits like the famous La Fontenelle ravage the country
.
> 1598 : Henry IV ends religious strife by issuing the Edit of Nantes.
.
> (from http://www.brittany-guide.com/celtic.htm
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. *AMORC*
......................................
From: "shasta...@my-deja.com" <shasta...@my-deja.com>
Newsgroups: alt.amorc
Subject: Re: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Date: 15 Dec 2006 21:43:14 -0800
Interesting post, Art. But I think you need to do more with the
plot/dialogue/characters in order to argue that R&G "represent"
anything more than related names. You do know that
Freemasonry is an outer order of an Inner Rosicrucian order right?
And Shakespeare is chock full of Masonic references.
Might just be a tip of the cap to those two audiences.
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FW 395.35: fadeless wonderwomen, and, sure now, we all know you dote
on her even unto date!) with a queeleetlecree of joysis crisis she
renulited their disunited, with ripy lepes to ropy lopes (the
dear o'dears!) and the golden importunity of aloofer's leavetime,
when, as quick,is greased pigskin, *AMORICAs* Champius, with one
aragan throust, druve the massive of virilvigtoury flshpst the
both lines of forwards (Eburnea's down, boys !) rightjingbangshot
.
FW 562.31 Whene'er I see those smiles in eyes 'tis Father Quinn
again. Very shortly he will smell sweetly when he will hear a weird
to wean. By gorgeous,that boy will blare some knight when he will
take his dane's pledges and quit our ingletears, spite of undesirable
parents, to wend him to *AMORICA* to quest a cashy job. That keen
dean with his veen nonsolance! O, I adore the profeen music!
Dollarmighty! He is too audorable really, eunique! I guess to
have seen somekid like him in the story book, guess I met
somewhere somelam to whom he will be becoming liker. But hush!
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. St. URSULA Feastday: October 21
. http://www.catholic.org/saints/saints/ursula.html
.
<<According to a legend that appeared in the tenth century, URSULA was
the daughter of a Christian king in Britain and was granted a three year
postponement of a marriage she did not wish, to a pagan prince. With
10 ladies in waiting, each attended by a thousand maidens, she embarked
on a voyage across the North sea, sailed up the Rhine to Basle,
Switzerland, and then went to Rome. On their way back, they were all
massacred by pagan Huns at Cologne in about 451 when URSULA refused to
marry their chieftain. According to another legend, *AMORICA* was
settled by British colonizers & soldiers after Emporer Magnus *CLEMENS*
Maximus conquered Britain & Gaul in 383. The ruler of the settlers,
Cynan Meiriadog, called on King Dionotus of Cornwall for wives for
the settlers, whereupon Dionotus sent his daughter URSULA, who
was to marry Cynan, with 11,000 maidens & 60,000 common women.
Their fleet was shipwrecked & all the women were enslaved or murdered.
The legends are pious fictions, but what is true is that one CLEMATIUS,
a senator, rebuilt a basilica in Cologne that had originally been built,
probably at the beginning of the fourth century, to honor a group
of virgins who had been martyred at Cologne. They were evidently
venerated enough to have had a church built in their honor, but
who they were and how many of them there were, are unknown.>>
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Feastday of St. ADRIAN [patron saint of BUTCHERS]
September 8, 1644, Francis QUARLES (_Hièroglyphikes_) dies
September 8, 1611, FORMAN SIMon dies: "An IMPOST, an IMPOST"
September 8, 1608, Shakespeare's mother, Mary, dies
September 8, 1601, Shakespeare's father, John, buried
September 8, 1573, Caravaggio born
September 8, 1560, Amy Robsart BREAKS neck at bottom of staircase
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http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/caravagg/11/73ursula.html
.
. The Martyrdom of St URSULA 1610
. Oil on canvas, 154 x 178 cm
. Banca Commerciale Italiana, Naples
.
<<This, another of the newly rediscovered paintings by Caravaggio, dates
to his final weeks in Naples, before the ill-fated sea-trip back towards
Rome and the pardon which was awaiting him. Saint URSULA was a popular
saint, remembered for her legendary refusal to marry a pagan Hun.
Caravaggio has picked on the climactic moment of her martyrdom,
when her frustrated suitor has just fired an arrow at her
- here at point-blank range which is piercing her breast.
.
In the dimly lit scene the saint gazes at the arrow with an air of quiet
concern, while the Hun stares at her, his eyes shaded in darkness, one
attendant looking at his hand and another, who must be modelled on
Caravaggio himself, peering from the back, anxious to watch the
proceedings. It is the last time that Caravaggio sees himself
as an anguished spectator, but in pictorial terms the painting
seems to presage what might have been a fresh stage in his career,
for the Hun is painted with a new boldness in the brushwork. The
varnish was still wet in May. By early July, Caravaggio was dead.>>
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Yogi Buchon wrote:
>
> The only time Caravaggio signed his name to a painting was when he
> signed "Michelangelo", his first name, in a stream of blood depicted
> in the painting of the beheading of St. John the Baptist on Malta.
>
> Finally, there seem to be subtle suggestions of the legend of St.
> URSULA within WT--a Sicilian queen, virgin girl making a sea voyage,
> a storm during the sea voyage, a virgin girl being sacrificed,
> Bohemian barbarians versus civilized Sicilians, a noble marriage, the
> stage direction "Exit pURSUed by [an URSUla]", et cetera. The legend
> of St URSULA was well known in Britain. In the case of WT it would
> be a Siclian URSULA rather than a British URSULA. Even if these
> suggestions are accepted, so what? Well, it turns out that the last
> painting Caravaggio did was *URSULA Transfixed* completed in Naples
> about May of 1610. The model he used for URSULA was the same Sicilian
> maiden he used within his painting of Lazarus in Messina, and within
> his painting of a nativity scene in Palermo. So, Caravaggio
> had painted a Sicilian URSULA!! How coincidental once more!!
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William Cecil of St *CLEMENS* DANES [i.e., DANS(k)E(r)]
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<<Burghley was a strange mixture & contradictory in nature, like most
of us: at times he showed strange tenderness of feeling, as instanced
by his affixing to his 2nd wife's daughter Anne's (Countess of Oxford)
monument in Westminster Abbey a small kneeling statue of himself
in robes associated with the following pathetic inscription:-
.
. "his eyes dim with tears for the loss of those
who were deare to him BEYOND THE WHOLE RACE OF WOMANKIND.">>
.
. http://www.sirbacon.org/cecil.htm
.
. Westminster Abbey Tomb of Anne de Vere
.
"Lady Susan, born 26th May 1587, who was too young to recognize either
her mother [Countess of Oxford] or her grandmother [Lady Mildred
Burghley] is beginning to recognize her most loving grand-father [Lord
Burghley], who has the care of all these children, so that they may not
be deprived either of a pious education or of a suitable upbringing."
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. OPALIA(1571)
. Anne Cecil -------------- Edward de Vere (d. 1604)
. |
. |
. Fire _______________________ Water
. Elizabeth \ / Susan
. (b. July 2) \ / (b. May 26)
. [Eagle/Edith] \ VERy - ILL / [Alice]
. Cranmer \ (Dormouse) / Augustine
. Globe (breeches) \ / baptism
. \ / [Susannah Shak.
. \ / /Moses 6 mo.]
. \ /
. \ /
. \ /
. V
. Earth
. Bridget
. (b. April 6)
. [Laura/Lorina]
. 1580 EARTHquake
. Durer/Raphael
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. BOTTLED BEERS, THE PREHISTORY
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/John_Mann/history.htm
.
<<In Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair (1631),
. URSULA calls for "A Bottle of Ale to QUENCH me, rascal".
.
Earlier, when the Globe Theatre burnt down there was a story that
the only casualty was a man whose breeches caught fire, and that he
was saved when a bottle of ale was thrown over them extinguishing
. the flames. But in either case, was the bottle a container
. as we understand it or a leather drinking mug?>>
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October 21 => Feast day of St. Ursula, the patroness of brides.
. http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/1021.htm
.
On October 21, 1692, William Penn was deposed as Governor of
PENNSYLVANIA. His overtures of gratefulness to King James II for
permitting religious freedom for dissenters of the Church of
England led William & Mary to charge Penn with being a papist.
.
On October 21, 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in the
parsonage at Ottery Saint Mary in Devon. He & Robert Southey had
planned to form a socialist community in PENNSYLVANIA.
.
On October 21, 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate CONSTITUTION launched.
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<<The sweet & innocent Billy Budd, foretopman of the H.M.S. Indomitable,
was executed in 1797 by hanging from the main-yard for the involuntary,
tongue-tied murder of his persecutor (c)LA(g)GART.>>
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On October 21, 1805, the Battle of T(raf)ALGAR ended Napoleon's hope
. for naval power. Lord HORATIO Nelson lost his life.
.
On October 21, 1914, Martin Gardner, yeoman in the Navy,
. born in (t)ULSA, Oklahoma.
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. The Legend of St. U(r)S(u)LA (Feast October 21)
. http://www.magna.com.au/~stursula/our_college/legend.htm
.
<<In the Church of St. Ursula at Cologne there is a stone (dating to the
4th Century) with the inscription indicating that CLEMATIUS rebuilt a
ruined basilica in honour of virgins martyred on the spot. Some stories
say there were eleven thousand, others eleven; the confusion caused
by the use of the letter XIM - which could stand for eleven martyrs or
eleven thousand. One version of the legend is that Ursula was British
and was slain by the Huns at Cologne in 451. Whatever the facts,
. the legend caught people's imagination. Ursula was seen as
. the Patroness of Youth and because of her leadership
. of young girls, as a patroness of learning.>>
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<<On 18 September 1783 Euler spent the first half of the day as usual.
He gave a mathematics lesson to one of his grandchildren, did some
calculations with chalk on two boards on the motion of BALLOONS; then
discussed with Lexell & Fuss the recently discovered planet URANUS.
.
About five o'clock in the afternoon he suffered a brain haemorrhage
. and uttered only "I am dying" before he lost consciousness.
. Euler died about ELEVEN o'clock in the evening.>>
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<<Herschel also discovered two of the moons of Uranus, Oberon &
. Titania, with his 20-foot telescope on January 11, 1787.>>
.
. http://www.skyhound.com/george.htm
.
<<URA(n)US is often brighter than 6th magnitude, which makes visible
. to the unaided eye. It's a wonder that no one had discovered it.
.Although Uranus had been recorded as a star, apparently its slow
.motion through the sky allowed it to go undetected as a planet.>>
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/c_a_plicht/06hersch.htm
.
<<On March, 13th 1781 Herschel discovered Uranus. In November
1781 Herschel was invited to London by the Royal Society to
receive the Copley medal. On December 7th Herschel became
a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1782 Herschel was offered
the position of court astronomer at Windsor for £200/year.
His sister Karoline was paid £50 for assisting him.>>
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. *URA(n)US* / *(h)ERScHEL*
. *URSU(l)A* / *URSHEL*
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. URSULA and the 11,000 Virgins of Cologne (RM)
. http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1021.htm
.
<<Baring-Gould suggests that Saint Ursula with her bow & arrow,
. her ship & company of maidens, sails up the Rhine as *URSHEL*
. the Teutonic moon goddess, sailed before her,
. with all the graceful attributes of Isis & Diana.
.
Saint Ursula is represented as a princess holding an arrow
. (1) with maidens under her mantle;
. (2) an angel comes to her as she sleeps ;
. (3) she takes leave of her royal parents;
. (4) in a Rhein boat surrounded by maidens & ecclesiastics,
. (5) she & her companions massacred by bowmen.>>
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On August 6, 1623, following a rare OCCULTATION of Uranus by Jupiter.
http://www.ctv.es/USERS/aramirez/cielos/remoto/occplan.html
.
. Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII
(He declared INIGO Y-ONAZ, (Ignatius Loyola) to be a saint.)
.
. Greg. date/time
. 1623/08/15 16.51 0°00'04"99 JUP - URA 15.58" 1.81" 9W
.
. [Surely someone must have seen these two planets
. close together with one of the new telescopes!
. Uranus is practically visible to the naked eye.]
.
. On the same day that Anne Hathaway dies in Stratford
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On the 14th anniversary of Anne Hathaway's death [August 6, 1637]
. Ben Jonson was BURIED UPRIGHT against the wall of his crypt.
.
. 'Two feet by two feet will do for all I want'. - Jonson
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TomV...@ix.netcom.com (Tom Veal) wrote: There are distinct
.
> parallels between Beaumont's life & that of the mythical Stratford
> Man, to wit, both are recorded as having been born, both got
>married, and both retired to the country, dying just a few years
>afterward. What explanation can there be for such "coincidences"
> except that Beaumont and "Shakespeare" were the same man?
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ur[SUL(a)IS]ley of [SUN]dridge
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<<Beaumont married an heiress, *Ursula* Isley of Sundridge, in 1613 and
left the stage. Of the 50 or so plays ascribed to Beaumont & Fletcher,
only seven or eight can be confidently said to be Beaumont's work in
any significant part. Francis Beaumont died suddenly of a fever in 1616
and was mourned by many, not least by his closest friend, Fletcher.
Beaumont was buried in Westminster Abbey. The first collected
edition of the plays of Beaumont & Fletcher came out in 1647.>>
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, Edward de Vere marries daughter of *Treasurer* Lord Burghley:
,
, Anne Cecil [age *15*] on [OPHELIA] OPALIA: DECEMBER 19, 1571
, (during Venus/URANUS/Sun conj.)
,
,, Thanks to *Treasurer* Lord Burghley = POLONIUS
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<<Linkage between precession and the POLE star was first made by
Sir John HERSHEL in the context of the alignment of the Great Pyramid
in 1836. (I am conscious that this will probably provoke lengthy
posts on pyramidology from Art Neuendorffer.)>> - Nicholas Whyte
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In December 1612 Galileo recorded the planet Neptune
. without realizing it near the planet Jupiter;
.
. at the time Uranus was located *at 24 GEMINI*
.
Two complete Uranian cycles later (84 years X 2) on Mar. 13, 1781,
. Uranus would become the first outer planet discovered
.
by Sir William Herschel in Bath, England *at 24 GEMINI* .>>
.
. http://www.mcn.org/greatbear/neptune2.html
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. unmarried & retired to the country
. (Mr. W.H.) William Herschel in his Bath
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/c_a_plicht/06hersch.htm
.
<<Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was born in Hannover November, 15th 1738.
. On December 9th 1766 he moved to BATH where he rented a house
. with friends from Leeds, the Bulmans, at BEAUFORT Square.
.
On October, 4th 1767 he started his new career as an organist at the
privately owned Octagon church. In the summer of 1772 Wilhelm Herschel
went to Hannover to help his sister Karoline with the travel to Bath.
In 1773 Wilhelm Herschels interest in astronomy suddenly grew.>>
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. Dr. Watson
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/c_a_plicht/06hersch.htm
.
<<In 1779 the Herschels moved to 5 RiVER Street. The reason for this
is not known, the house had no garden and was unsuitable for telescope
work. So Wilhelm one evening placed his telescope on the street right
beside the house, when a man passing by asked to have a view of the
moon. The other morning this man visited again and introduced himself
as Dr William Watson, member of the Royal Society and founder of a
philosophical society in Bath. He invited Herschel to join this society.
Between 1779 and 1781 W. Herschel had measured the heights of about
a hundred moon mountains, writing down his results. These papers
were first presented to the Royal Society *by Dr Watson* .>>
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. [ http://www.athenapub.com/britbath.htm ]
.
<<Today's town of BATH, England contained an ancient shrine to SULIS,
the Celtic goddess of healing. In the late 1st century AD the Romans
built a bath complex around the sacred spring, calling it Aquae SULIS.
. Near the baths was erected a temple to SULIS
. merged with the Roman goddess of wisdom, MinERva.>>
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. [Mithrian Empereor DIOCLETIAN was grandfather to Gog & Magog.]
24 Feb 303 => Xian persecution under Maximian/DIOCLETIAN begins
. Sts. Dorothy, Agnes, Lucy, Alban, Pancras,
. Crispin, Crispinian, Quentin & Julitta
. and St. URSULA die
.
. 23 Apr 303 => Saint George tortured & executed at Nicomedia
. 25 May 303 => Venus TRANSIT
. 18 Oct 303 => Mercury TRANSIT
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. 4 Mar 1526 => *Henry Carey (Baron Hunsdon) born*
. 1526 => *de Vere's grandfather becomes 15th Earl*
.
. 1526 => Bohemia came under the rule of Habsburgs
. 1526 =>St Paul's Boys acted Terence's Phormio f. Wolsey
. 1526 => Aethiopica of Heliodorus discovered .
. 2 Jun 1526 => Venus TRANSIT
. 3 Nov 1526 => Mercury TRANSIT
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. 1526 + 105 years = 2 x 46 + 13 (Mercury) = 113.5 - 8 (Venus)
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. 7 Feb 1631 => Gabriel Harvey dies
. 1631 => Andrew WISE, Grand Prior/Knights of Malta, dies
. 31 Mar 1631 => John Donne dies after his own funeral sermon
. Jun 1631 => Captain John Smith dies in London
.
. 19 Aug 1631 => John Dryden born
. 1631 => John WeEVER _Ancient Funerall Monuments
. 1631 => Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair
. Ursula: "A Bottle of Ale to quench me, rascal"
. 1631 => Harriot's postumous algebra tract published
. 17 Sep 1631 => Gustavus' ADOLPHUS defeats Tilly at Breitenfeld
.
. 7 Nov 1631 => Mercury TRANSIT
. 6 Dec 1631 => Venus TRANSIT
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. 1631 + 138 years = 3 x 46 (Mercury) = 129.5 + 8 (Venus)
. 1526 + 243 years = 250 - 7 (Mercury) = 243 years (Venus)
.
[26 Aug 1768 => Cook sets sail on Endeavor to view TRANSITS]
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. 1 May 1769 => Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington born
.
. 3 June 1769 => Venus TRANSIT
. Balsamo meets with Adam Weishaupt & Casanova
.
. Sep 1769 => *Shakespeare Jubilee of Stratford*
.
9 Nov 1769 => Mercury TRANSIT
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1769 *Shakespeare Jubilee of Stratford* celebrated the double TRANSIT
of *Henry Carey (Baron Hunsdon) birth
[and/or the 15th Earl of Oxford].
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. 23 Jul 1567 => Mary Queen of Scots abdicates
. 23 Jul 1567 => Vere kills Thomas Brincknell
. +29
. ----------------
. 23 Jul 1596 => Henry Carey (Baron Hunsdon) dies
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Shakespeare's patron: Lord Chamberlain Harry Carey(Lord Hunsdon)
is in an elaborate Westminster Abbey tomb (including a Freemason
checkerboard tombchest & 10 (count them 10) obelisks!:
.
<<The tombchest itself, flanked at the corners by four obelisks
decorated with shields, is placed inside an ARCH with a coffered VAULT,
the back of which is embellished with strapwork ornament, heraldic
devices and winged books. Further obelisks, surmounting the general
structure display more heraldry. At the very top is a lantern,
resembling that which may be seen in Hollar's engraving of the 2nd
Globe. The ARCH is surmounted by an achievement of arms, flanked
by obelisks which stand on bases decorated with Carey beasts,
urns and fruit.>> -- _The Shakespeare Legacy_ Jean Wilson.
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. The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos:
.
. The most tragical tragedy
. that ever was tragediz'd
. by any company of tragedians, :-(
.
. by Henry Carey (c1687-1743)
.
. but variously published under the pseudonym
. Benjamin Bounce, esq., or Robert Carey
.
Includes two of the country of Queerummania's most loyal courtiers,
. ALDIBORONTIPHOSCOPHORNIO & RIGDUM-FUNNIDOS.
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
.
. Chronon-hoton-thol'ogos [ch = k].
. Anyone who delivers an inflated address.
.
. A burlesque pomposo in Henry Carey's farce, so called.
.
. "Aldiborontephoscophornio, where left you
. Chrononhotonthologos?"--H. Carey.
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. Chrononhotonthologos is king of Queerummania,
. and two of the characters are
. Aldiborontiphoscophornia & Rigdum-Funnidos,
. names which Sir W. Scott gave to James & John Ballantyne,
.
. on account of the pomposity of the one
. and the fun & cheerfulness of the other.
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The Sea Venture left England June 2nd, 1609 [ *St. Elmo's Day* ]
.
. David L. Webb wrote:
.
> "Saint Elmo" is an anagram of "Mason tile"
> "ELMO's Day" is an anagram of "dEMOLays"
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March 18, 1314: Jacques(pere) DeMolay burned to death.
.
March 18, 1564: Shaks(pere) born (250 years later!!!)
. [Assuming traditional 40 days before April 26 baptism]
.
March 18, 1768: Laurence *STERNE* [_Tristram Shandy_] dies:
Like Greene, Marlowe & Shakspeare Larry died suddenly
. after a big meal. "In the end, he put up his hand,
. AS IF TO STOP A BLOW, and died in a minute."
.
. MAR-LO <> HI-RAM
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. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) "author" of .
.
. _TristRAM Shandy_ & _The Sermons of Mr. Yorick_.
.
.(one yeastyday he STERNELY STRUXK his tete in a tub
. for to watsch the future of his fates
. but ere he SWIFTLY stook it out again,. . .
. _Finnegans Wake_
.
. HARVEY, GABRIEL THE WRITERS POSTSCRIPT:
OR A FRENDLY CAUEAT TO THE SECOND SHAKERLEY OF POWLES.
.
15 Is it a Dreame? or is the Highest minde,
16 That euer haunted Powles, or hunted winde,
17 Bereaft of that same sky-surmounting breath,
18 That breath, that taught the Timpany to swell?
.
19 He, and the Plague contended for the game:
20 The hawty man extolles his hideous thoughtes,
21 And gloriously insultes vpon poore soules,
22 That plague themselues: for faint harts plague themselues.
23 The tyrant Sicknesse of base-minded slaues
24 Oh how it dominer's in Coward Lane?
25 So Surquidry rang-out his larum bell,
26 When he had girn'd at many a dolefull knell.
.
27 The graund Dissease disdain'd his toade Conceit,
28 And smiling at his tamberlaine contempt,
29 STERNELY STRUCK-home the peremptory stroke.
30 He that nor feared God, nor dreaded Diu'll,
31 Nor ought admired, but his wondrous selfe:
32 Like Iunos gawdy Bird, that prowdly stares
33 On glittring fan of his triumphant taile:
34 Or like the ugly Bugg, that scorn'd to dy,
35 And mountes of Glory rear'd in towring witt:
36 Alas: but Babell Pride must kisse the pitt.
37 Powles steeple, and a hugyer thing is downe:
38 Beware the next Bull-beggar of the towne.
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<<St. Samson crossed the Channel to *ARMORICA* , where he
landed at the mouth of the Guyoult, to continue his missionary
activities in Brittany. Privatus, a Gallo-Roman, gave him
a stretch of land nearby on which to build a monastery
c. 525, & this became the site of the future town of Dol.>>
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July 28, 565: St. Samson (Sampson) dies at *DOL* Brittany.
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Henry IV, Part Two (Quarto 1, 1600).: Act 5, Scene 5
.
Pist. Tis semper idem, for, obsque hoc nihil est,
. tis in EUERy part.
.
Shal.Tis so indeede.
.
Pist. My Knight, I will inflame thy noble liuer, and make thee
rage, thy *DOL* , and Helen of thy noble thoughts, is in base
durance, and contagious prison, halde thither by most mecha-
nical, and durtie hand: rowze vp reuenge from Ebon den, with
fell Alectoes snake, for Doll is in: Pistoll speakes nought
but TRUTH.
.
Falst. I WILL DEliUER her.
.
Pist. There roared the sea, and trumpet Clangor sounds.
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. Henry the Fifth (Quarto 1, 1600): Act 2, Scene 1
.
Pist.Couple gorge is the word, I thee defie agen:
A damned hound, thinkst thou my spouse to get?
No, to the powdering tub of infamy,
Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cresides kinde,
*DOLL* Tear-sheete, she by name, and her espowse
I haue, and I will hold, the quandom quickly,
For the onely she and Paco, there it is inough.
.
. Enter the Boy.
.
Boy. Hostes you must come straight to my maister,
And you Host Pistoll. Good Bardolfe
Put thy nose between the sheets, and do the office of a
(warming pan.
.
Host. By my TROATH heele yeeld the crow a pudding one
of these dayes. Ile go to him, husband youle come?
.
Bar. Come Pistoll be friends.
.
Nim prithee be friends, and if thou wilt not be
. Enemies with me too.
.
Ni.I shal haue my eight shillings I woon of you at beating?
.
Pist.Base is the slaue that payes.
.
Nim.That now I will haue, and theres the humor of it.
.
Pist.As manhood shall compound.
.
. They draw.
.
Bar.He that strikes the first blow,
. Ile kill him by this sword.
.
Pist.Sword is an oath, and oathes must haue their course.
.
Nim.I shall haue my eight shillings I wonne of you at beating?
.
Pist.A noble shalt thou haue, and readie pay,
. And liquor likewise will giue to thee,
. And friendship shall combind and brotherhood:
. Ile liue by Nim as Nim shall liue by me:
. Is not this iust? for I shall Sutler be
. Vnto the Campe, and profit will occrue.
.
Nim.I shall haue my noble?
.
Pist. In cash most TRULY paid.
.
Nim. Why theres the humour of it.
.
. Enter Hostes.
.
Hostes.As euer you came of men come in,
Sir Iohn poore soule is so troubled
With a burning tashan contigian fEUER, tis wonderfull.
.
Pist.Let us condoll the knight: for lamkins we will liue.
.
. Exeunt omnes.
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July 28, 565: St. Samson (Sampson) dies at *DOL* Brittany.
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. Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1
.
SAMPSON: If you do, sir, I am for you:
. IserVe as good a man as you.
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. SHAKESPEARE AND FREEMASONRY
. http://www.sirbacon.org/Dawkinsfrmsnry.htm
.
<<In July 1929 the Foundation Stone of the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon was laid with full Masonic ritual by
Lord Ampthill, pro-Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England,
using an old Egyptian maul used at Sakhara four thousand years ago.
Six hundred Masons were present at the ceremony, in full regalia. Why
should Grand Lodge attach such primary imPORTance to the memory of
Shakespeare and the continuing performance of his plays? In fact,
such attention has some noteworthy precedents that would
seem to link Freemasonry strongly with Shakespeare.
.
The early Freemasons were frequently known as SAM's SONS (i.e.
Solomon's Sons), and SAMSON, who held up the two pillars of the
temple, was used as their allegorical archetype. This reference
especially occurs in Love's Labour's Lost, when speaking of great men
who have been in love. The initiate Hercules is given as an example,
but 'more authority' is requested 'men of good repute and carriage'.
Moth gives the approved answer: 'SAMSON, Master! He was a man of good
carriage, great carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his back
like a PORTER; and he was in love'. Armado, the Master who is
catechising his pupil, makes a reply in which he points out his office
as being higher than SAMSON's, who was the PORTER or Tyler: 'O
well-knit SAMSON! strong-jointed SAMSON! I do excell thee in my rapier
as much as thou didst me in carrying gates. I am in love too'. Armado
then continues the questions, going deeper into the Mystery of
Freemasonry: 'Who was SAMSON's love, my dear Moth?'
and Moth succinctly responds with the allegorical TRUTH.>>
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Samson (Sampson) of Brittany B (RM) Born in Glamorgan, Wales,
c. 485; died at Dol, Brittany, France, *July 28* c. 565.
.
The existing vita of Saint Samson may be the earliest biography of
a British Celtic saint, but scholarly opinion is divided on whether
it was written in the 7th century (within 50 years of his death) or
the 9th. The earliest manuscripts date only from the 11th century.
He was one of the greatest missionaries ever to come from Britain.
His parents--Ammon, a lord of Glamorgan, and Anna of Gwent--
dedicated him to the service of God because he was a "child of
*PROMISE* " after his parents prolonged period of childlessness.
.
After Samson's ordination an attempt was made on his life by two
nephews of Saint Illtyd, who were jealous of his ordination.
So Samson left the community and lived for a time under Piro on
the island of Caldey (Ynys Byr) off the coast of *Pembrokeshire* ,
where he served as cellarer. His father and his uncle, Umbrafel,
joined him there after his father had recovered from a serious
illness during which he received the last rites from his son.
When Piro died, Samson succeeded him as abbot of Caldey Abbey,
but he resigned after a preaching tour to Ireland.
.
He returned to Wales, where he lived as a hermit with his father and
two others in a retreat near the mouth of the SEVERn River. Then he
sojourned to Cornwall, where he was consecrated bishop of Saint Dyfrig
(Dubricius), bishop of Caerleon, and appointed abbot of its monastery.
Samson travelled throughout Cornwall where he worked as a missionary,
founded monasteries and churches at Padstow, Saint Kew, Southill,
and Golant, probably visited the Scilly Islands, and gathered to
himself disciples, such as Saints Austell, Mewan, and Winnoc
(which doesn't make sense because Winnoc died in 717).
.
Finally, Samson crossed the Channel to Armorica, where he landed at
the mouth of the Guyoult, to continue his missionary activities in
Brittany. Privatus, a Gallo-Roman, gave him a stretch of land
nearby on which to build a monastery c. 525, and this became
the site of the future town of Dol.
.
Under his leadership, Dol became the spiritual center of Brittany.
His concern for justice, as well as the temporal importance of his
position as bishop and abbot, often involved him in political affairs.
When Conomor (Conmor) murdered the king of Domnonia and usurped the
throne that rightly belonged to the Breton ruler Judwal (Judual),
Saint Samson journeyed to Paris where, with the support of Saint
Germain the bishop of Paris, he enlisted the help of the Frankish
King Childebert. On his return he travelled down the Seine
and founded an establishment for penitents at Vernier.
.
On a second visit to Paris he was granted lands in the region of
Rennes and was also given jurisdiction over the Channel Islands--
and indeed it was from the Isle of Guernsey, where one town bears
his name, that he and Judwal embarked on their campaign to depose
the usurper Conomor. After three battles, Judwal won back his
kingdom & Samson returned to his bishopric and monastery at Dol.
.
Towards the end of his life, when he felt that his end was near,
he undertook an extensive journey throughout the whole of Neustria,
a journey of which the Breton bards have left us a moving account.
Accompanied by 7 monks, 7 disciples and 7 escorts, he travelled slowly
from parish to parish, often stopping to preach or to celebrate the
Divine Office, bringing his mission to an end only with his death.
.
Many miraculous deed were attributed to Saint Samson, to which his
anonymous biographer gives ample space. Recent research seems to
demonstrate that Samson was the leading churchman of the colonists
from Britain who founded Brittany, and a primary figure in the
history of the evangelization of Cornwall and the Channel Islands.
.
Some of his relics, including an arm and a crozier, were acquired by
King Athelstan of Wessex (924-939), for his monastery at Milton Abbas
in Dorset, which is why Samson's feast is kept in many places in
England. In addition, there are six ancient dedications there
to him, as well as others in Cornwall and Brittany.
.
Samson's name is still revered throughout Brittany and Wales.
.
In art, Samson is depicted with a cross or staff
. together with a dove and book (Farmer).
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July 28, 565: St. Samson (Sampson) dies at Dol Brittany.
.
July 28, 1540: Chancellor Thomas Cromwell executed
.
July 28, 1562: 16th EARL OF OXFORD signs will.
.
July 28, 1576: Frobisher sights "Queen Elizabeth's Foreland,"
July 28, 1581: Lord ST. JOHN's letter on Oxford's engagement.
July 28, 1597: Henslowe pays Ben Jonson
July 28, 1609: Sea Venture limps into Bermuda
.
July 28, 1534: JOHN ALLEN dies (Archbishop of Dublin)
July 28, 1629: JOHN SPEED dies
.
July 28, 1655: Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet & soldier dies
July 28, 1667: Poet Abraham Cowley dies
July 28, 1741: Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer dies
July 28, 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer dies
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BERGER : salvor (Dutch, German)
BERGER : shepherd (French)
--------------------------------------------------------------
. Francis Beaumont (beautiful mountain) died (March 6, 1616)
Cyrano de Bergerac (mountain serac?) was born (March 6, 1619) in
Paris. Under libertine philosopher & mathematician Pierre Gassendi
Cyrano wrote two science-fiction books satirizing the belief
. man was the center of the universe:
.
. _The States and Empires of the Moon_ (1657) and
. _The States and Empires of the Sun_ (1662)
. [Both publish posthumously].
. Cyrano foresaw the phonograph and the atom.
.
Cyrano also wrote one comedy _The Ridiculous Pendant_ (1653)
. and one tragedy _The Death of Agrippina_ (1654).
.
It was uncovincingly reported that he converted on his deathbed.
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. http://cyrano.kensai.com/critic.htm
-------------------------------------------------
CYRANO: Look you, it was my life
. To be the prompter EVERy one forgets!
. . . .
. There was the allegory of my whole life:
. I, in the shadow, at the ladder's foot,
. While others lightly mount to Love and Fame!
. Just! very just! Here on the threshold drear
. Of death, I pay my tribute with the rest,
. To Moliere's genius,--Christian's fair face!
. (Shakespere's) (Christopher's)
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http://www.williamtyndale.com/0characterswilliamtyndale.htm
.
<<Thomas Cromwell : He succeeded Sir Thomas More as chancellor to
the king, and tried to be a friend to Tyndale when the reformer was
sitting in prison. He is best-known for carrying out King Henry's
order to suppress the monasteries in England, then for being executed
by the king soon after the last monastery had surrendered. A man of
Protestant sympathies, he attempted to get Tyndale set free from
Vilvoorde prison by contacting the governor of the prison. He was
obviously not successful, but he was successful in convincing the king
to approve distribution of the English Tyndale & Coverdale Bibles.>>
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. King Henry VIII Act 2, Scene 2
.
NORFOLK: That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years
. About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;
.
. Act 4, Scene 1
.
Third Gentleman: *Thomas Cromwell* ;
. A man in much esteem with the king, and TRULY
. A worthy friend. The king has made him master
. O' the jewel house,
.
. Act 5, Scene 1
.
LOVELL: As for Cromwell,
. Beside that of the jewel house, is made master
. O' the rolls, and the king's secretary; further, sir,
. Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments,
. With which the time will load him. The archbishop
. Is the king's hand and tongue; and who dare speak
. One syllable against him?
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. Abraham Cowley [24 July 1618 - 28 July 1667]
.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~goller/books/COWLEY/BIOG.TXT
http://www.findagrave.net/pictures/7092.html
.
<<Cowley, Abraham: A poet, whose great contemporary reputation
. soon waned. He worked in Paris for a while as confidential
secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria. He returned to England after the
Restoration, expecting recognition of his service, dying in retirement
. a few years later. The names of other poets and authors who
do not have actual grave markers were added to his grave marker.>>
.
http://www.hn.psu.edu/Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/cowley/default.html
.
. On the Death of Mr. [W]illiam [H]ervey
. On the Death of Sir [H]enry [W]ooten
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Philip Henslowes diary (July 28, 1597) of 3S. 6d.
. received of BengeMENES Johnsones share.
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http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/fr57602e.html
.
<<With 3 tiny ships, Frobisher set out from London on June 7, 1576.
As they passed down the Thames, Queen Elizabeth I waved them farewell
from the window of her palace at Greenwich. During a stormy six-week
crossing of the North Atlantic, the smallest of Frobisher's three
ships sank and another turned back in fear. Only the flagship
*GABRIEL* , a tiny vessel with a crew of 18, continued westward.
Eventually, on *July 28* they sighted a barren rocky headland
which Frobisher named "Queen Elizabeth's Foreland," in honour
of his royal patron. This was Resolution Island,
the most easterly outpost of Arctic Canada.>>
....................................................
. In the court of Elizabeth I (July, 1578)
. *GABRIEL* HARVEY (ROPEMAKER) addresses Edward deVere:
.
<<O great-hearted one, strong in thy mind and thy fiery WILL,
thou wilt conquer thyself, thou wilt conquer others; thy glory
. will spread out IN ALL DIRECTIONS BEYOND THE ARCTIC OCEAN;
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. JOHN SPEED (1552 - *July 28* 1629)
. http://www.mapforum.com/speed.htm
.
"John Speed, who was bred a Tailor, was by the generosity of Sir
Fulk Grevil, his patron, set free from a manual employment and enabled
to pursue his studies, to which he was strongly inclined by the bent
of his genius. The fruits of them were his Theatre of Great Britain,
containing an entire set of maps of the counties drawn by himself, his
History of Great Britain, richly adorned with seals, coins & medals,
from the Cotton collection; and his Genealogies of Scripture, first
bound up with the Bible, in 1611 which was the first edition of the
present English translation. His maps were very justly esteemed &
his History of Great Britain, was, in its kind incomparably more
complete, than all the histories of his predecessors put together ..."
.
Speed died on July 28th, 1629, & buried in the Church of St. Giles,
in Cripplegate. A monument was erected to himin the church,
comprising a bust, flanked by two stone doors, with inscriptions.>>
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. JOHN ALLEN (1476- *July 28* 1534)
. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01321b.htm
.
<<Archbishop of Dublin, canonist, and Chancellor of Ireland was
murdered near Dublin, 28 July, 1534. As a former follower of WOLSEY,
he was hated by the followers of the great Irish house of Kildare
(Fitzgerald), whose chief, the ninth earl, had been imprisoned by
WOLSEY in the Tower from 1526 to 1530, and again, by the King, early
in 1534. Soon a false rumour spread through Ireland that the earl had
been put to death, and the archbishop was killed in consequence of it
by two retainers of his son, the famous "Silken Thomas" Fitzgerald.
Sir James Ware says of Allen that "he was of a turbulent spirit,
but a man of hospitality and learning, and a diligent inquirer into
antiquities." He belonged to the shifty and unprincipled class of
which Thomas Cromwell (q.v.) was leader & mouthpiece, and he closed
unworthily the series of the old Catholic archbishops of Dublin; his
successor, George Browne, was a formal apostate and begins the list
of the Protestant prelates of the Anglican Church in Ireland.>>
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. http://home.earthlink.net/~mark_alex/Star/ch05.html
.
<<Anne's marriage to the Earl of Oxford was set for September,
1581, 3 months before the bride would be fifteen. (She was
as young as Juliet.) On *July 28* , Lord ST. JOHN had written
the [3rd] Earl of Rutland, Edward Manners, who was in Paris:
.
"The Earl of Oxford hath gotten him a wife -- or at least a wife hath
caught him; this is Mistress Anne Cecil; whereunto the Queen hath
given her consent, and the which hath caused great weeping, wailing,
and sorrowful CHEERE of those who had hoped to have that golden day.
Thus you may see that whilst some triumph with olive branches,
others follow the chariot with WILLOW garlands.">>
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. July 28, 1562: John De Vere's Will.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mark_alex/Vere/1562.html
.
JOHN DE VEER, [16th] EARL OF OXFORD [of Hedingham Castle],
. Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Viscount Bulbeck,
. 28 July 1562. [P.R.O. PROB 11/46/174]
.
The schedule of certain of my household stuff and other things.
.
A trussing bed, with hangings of crimson *VELVET*, powdered with
agates & brodering [embroidering?] flowers, paned with white damask.
. A trussing bed, hanging of purple tinsel satin, paned with
. black *VELVET*, powdered with clouds, weeping eyes and drops,
. with 5 curtains of blue sarcenet.
A trussing bed, hanging of blue tinsel satin, paned with red *VELVET*,
powdered with pomegranates, with 3 curtains of red and blue sarcenet.
. A sparver of green damask, paned with tinsel satin of bridges,
. with curtains of red and yellow sarcenet made fast to the same.
. A sparver of estate of red satin, powdered with
. BLUE BOARS and letters and my old Lord's arms.
. Two counterpoints of Venus and Cupid.
. One quilt of red sarcenet.
. A counterpoint of tapestry having St. George in it.
. A counterpoint of coarse counterfeit arras with a great lion in it.
. Six pieces of tapestry verdures and beasts.
. Six pieces of hangings sometime for the Great Chamber at Colne.
. Featherbeds 12.
. Cushions 12.
. Carpets for tables and cupboards 10.
. Sheets 12 pair.
. Blankets 10 pair.
. Two chairs of crimson *VELVET*.
. One chair of black *VELVET*. [Signed 'Oxenford'].
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. Sir Walter Ralegh (1554?1618)
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.161
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<<The famous event of the *CLOAK* is believed to have occurred
at Greenwich Palace. Soon after his return from Ireland, Ralegh,
dressed very flamboyantly as usual, was walking with the Queen and
other courtiers. When they came to a muddy puddle Ralegh spread out
his *plush VELVET CLOAK* so that the Queen would not have to step
in the dirt. Whether it was true or not, Ralegh was rewarded
'with many suits', the lease of Durham House on the Strand
and many other privileges. With his new wealth he built a warship
which he named the *Ark Ralegh* . He later gave this to the Queen
who changed the name to the *Ark Royal*. This ship later became
the flagship of the English fleet which fought against the
Spanish Armada under the command of Lord Howard of Effingham.
(Although Walter Ralegh did not command a ship, he was
a naval adviser to the Queen and helped Sir John Hawkins
to implement improvements to the design of ships.)
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"THOMAS CROMWELL." 1911 Online Encyclopedia.
http://35.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CR/CROMWELL_THOMAS.htm
.
CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF ESSEX (c1485- *July 28* 1540),
the only son of Walter Cromwell, alias Smyth, a brewer,
smith and fuller of Putney. His grandfather, John Cromwell,
seems to have belonged to the Nottinghamshire family, of whom
the most distinguished member was Ralph, Lord Cromwell (1394-1456),
lord treasurer; and he migrated from Norwell, Co. Notts, to
Wimbledon some time before 1461. Johns son, Walter, seems to have
acquired the alias Smyth from being apprenticed to his uncle,
William Smyth, armourer, of Wimbledon. He was of a turbulent,
vicious disposition, perpetually being fined in the manor-court for
drunkenness, for evading the assize of beer, and for turning more
than his proper number of beasts on to Putney Common. Once he was
punished for a sanguinary assault, and his connection with
Wimbledon ceased in 1514 when he falsely and fraudulently erased
the evidences and terrures of the lord.
.
The Lords loathed him as an upstart even more than they had loathed
Wolsey; he had no church to support him; Norfolk and Gardiner detested
him from pique as well as on principle, and he had no friend in the
council save Cranmer. As lay viceregent he had given umbrage to nearly
every churchman, and he had put all his eggs in the one basket of
royal favor, which had now failed him. Cromwell did not succumb
without an effort, and a desperate struggle ensued in the council.
In April the French ambassador wrote that he was tottering to his
fall; a few days later he was created earl of Essex and *LORD GREAT
CHAMBERLAIN* , and two of his satellites were made secretaries to the
king; he then despatched one bishop to the Tower, and threatened to
send five others to join him. At last Henry struck as suddenly and
remorselessly as a beast of prey; on the 10th of June Norfolk accused
him of treason; the whole council joined in the attack, and Cromwell
was sent to the Tower. A vast number of crimes was laid to his charge,
but not submitted for trial. An act of attainder was passed against
him without a dissentient voice, and after contributing his mite
towards the divorce of Anne, he was beheaded on Tower Hill
on the 28th of July, repudiating all heresy and declaring
that he died in the Catholic faith.>>
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Peregrinus of Lyons, Hermit : Feastday *July 28*
2nd century. Peregrinus appears to have been a priest of the diocese
of Lyons in the time of Saint Irenaeus. During the persecution of
Severus he lived as a hermit on an island in the Saône River,
.
Arduinus of Ceprano (AC) (a.k.a Ardwyne, Ardoin) *July 28*
7th century. Saint Arduinus is patron of Trepino in southern Italy.
An improbable legend makes him one of four English pilgrims
who died in this region in the 7th century (Benedictines).
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. Nazarius & Celsus : Feastday *July 28*
.
<<Born in Rome; died c. 68. Unreliable legend reports that Saint
Nazarius was the son of a pagan Roman officer and his Christian wife
Perpetua. Nazarius was taught the faith by Saint Peter. When Emperor
Nero was persecuting Christians in Rome, Nazarius began to preach the
Christian faith so powerfully that his friends begged him to leave the
city to avoid punishment. He went to Milan. There he found two other
Christians, Gervase and Protase, already in prison. In spite of the
danger, Nazarius rushed to comfort them, for which the city rulers
beat him and threw him outside their walls.
.
Undeterred, Nazarius went to Gaul. He was asked to look after
a child called Celsus, baptized him, and travelled further,
reaching Trier, Germany, always preaching the Gospel.
Celsus went with him, supporting Nazarius in every way he could.
.
At Trier, they were tried by Nero who found them guilty of being
Christians, and ordered that they be drowned. Both Christians were
taken in a ship and thrown overboard, but a storm that suddenly
arose frightened the sailors. Imagining that the storm was
a punishment for their treatment of the two Christians,
the sailors pulled Nazarius and Celsus back on board.
.
They landed at Genoa, and Nazarius decided that they ought to try
once more to convert the people of Milan. But the magistrates of
Milan again caught Nazarius and Celsus with him.
.
. This time they were beheaded.
.
The two saints were buried outside the walls of the city, close by the
graves of Gervase & Protase. The only undisputed fact is that Saint
Ambrose, bishop of Milan, discovered the four bodies in a garden
outside Milan and reverently enshrined them inside his great new
church of the Apostles in 395. Reputedly, Nazarius's blood was
still liquid and red when his body was exhumed by Saint Ambrose.
.
In art, they are depicted as a man and boy walking on the sea>>
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July 28, 565: St. Samson (Sampson) dies at Dol Brittany.
. Samson is often depicted with a cross or staff
. together with a *DOVE* & book (Farmer).
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<<John Speed died on July 28th, 1629, and was buried
in the Church of *St GILES* , in Cripplegate.
A monument was erected to him in the church,
comprising a bust, flanked by two stone doors,
with inscriptions. The doors were destroyed by bombing in
the 2nd World War, but the bust, although damaged, survived.
Fortunately, an engraving, from John Thomas Smith's Antiquities
of London (1791), depicts the monument & inscriptions.>>
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July 28: Feast day of St Samson of Dol
(Sampson of York), bishop and confessor
.
<<St Samson of Dol (c. 490 - c. 565), regarded by many as one of the
greatest Welsh saints, was a Christian religious figure who is counted
among the seven founder saints of Brittany, with Ss Pol Aurelian,
Tudwal, Brieuc, Malo, Patern, and Corentin. He was born in southern
Wales to the Welsh nobility (the son of Amon of Dyfed and Anna of
Gwent); as part of a prophecy concerning his birth, his parents placed
him under the care of the abbot of Llantwit, St Illtyd (putatively a
cousin of King Arthur), to become a monk. In Cornwall, he founded a
monastery that was located at either South Hill or Golant, and, in
Brittany, he founded the monastery of Dol. Ordained bishop by St
Dubricius; soon after this, he believed he received a vision from
God telling him to bring the Gospel to Brittany. There is only one
certain date in Samson's life: he was ordained bishop on the Feast
of the Chair of Saint Peter (February 22) at the beginning of Lent,
which can be calculated to have fallen in the year 521. Samson died
in Dol-de-Bretagne, a small town in north Brittany. The primary source
for his biography is the Vita Sancti Samsonis (written sometime between
610 and 820, but clearly based on earlier materials) which valuable
details about Celtic Christianity in Britain during Samson's time.
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July 28, 1540: Chancellor Thomas Cromwell executed
.
July 28, 1562: 16th EARL OF OXFORD signs will.
.
July 28, 1576: Frobisher sights "Queen Elizabeth's Foreland,"
July 28, 1581: Lord ST. JOHN's letter on Oxford's engagement.
July 28, 1597: Henslowe pays Ben Jonson
July 28, 1609: Sea Venture limps into Bermuda
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July 28, 1534: JOHN ALLEN dies (120 days after Easter)
July 28, 1629: JOHN SPEED dies (120 days after Easter)
.
July 28, 1655: Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet & soldier dies
July 28, 1667: Poet Abraham Cowley dies
July 28, 1741: Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer dies
July 28, 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer dies
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