A Short History of the Knights Templar
Neuendorffer
A Short History of the Knights Templar
http://www.kingmere.demon.co.uk/SMOTJ/history.html
<<The Order was founded in Jerusalem in 1118 by Hughes de Payens
Geoffroy de St. Omer and seven other French knights. It was consecrated
to the protection of pilgrims and the defence of the Holy Land. The
founding knights took monastic vows and were known as "The Poor Knights
of Christ".
King Baldwin II, the French King of Jerusalem (1118-1131) installed the
Order in a part of his Palace, on the site of Solomon's Temple, for
their residence, stables and armoury, from which it took its name of
Knights of the Temple or Templars.
At the Council of Troyes in 1128 the Order was confirmed by Pope
Honorius II, who gave it the strict Rule dictated by St. Bernard, a monk
of the Cistercian Order who became the first Abbot of Clairvaux. The
Knights also received the white mantle as a symbol of purity of their
life, to which in 1146 Pope Eugenius added the red Templar cross.
The Order's battle honours in defence of the Holy Land were many.
Following the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 the Templars withdrew to Acre.
They remained at Acre with Grand Master William de Beaujue until 1291
when the city was captured and he was killed. The surviving Templars,
with their new Grand Master, were the last to leave the city. The Order
withdrew to Limmasol, Cyprus and had its Headquarters at the Temple
Monastery in Paris.
After many years of sacrifices and rendering services to both
Christianity and civilisation, this very rich and powerful Order excited
the envy and greed of others. The principal malefactor was Phillipe le
Bel, King of France, who was financially indebted to the Order. In 1307
Phillipe arrested all serving Templars in France with the intention of
sequestrating all the Order's possessions. However, these were hidden in
a secret place and have never been found to this day. Not able to judge
the Order himself, (it was only answerable to the Pope) Phillipe set
about to coerce the Pope to suppress the Order, but the Pope refused.
Whereupon, the king dismissed him and created his friend, the Bishop of
Bordeaux, Pope Clement V, who readily issued a Bull suppressing the
Order in 1312. The Order then reverted to its original status of a
Secular Military Order of
Chivalry.
Only in France were the Templars treated with any severity, with Grand
Master Jaques de Molay and others burnt at the stake in March 1314 on an
island in the Seine. In England, Edward II (a patron) at first did not
take any action against the Order, but finally, he allowed the
inquisitors to judge the Order at the Church of All Hallows
By-the-Tower. Edward then set about reclaiming English Templar lands and
possessions including the London Temple, rather than passing them to the
Hospitallers. After Edward's actions The Templars sought refuge in
Scotland where they were welcomed.
Prior to his martyrdom in 1314 Grand Master Jaques de Molay invested
Jean-Marc Larmenius with his powers. Larmenius was unanimously
recognised as the new Grand Master following de Molay's death. He
gathered together the dispersed remnants of the Order and in 1324 gave
the Order the Charter of Transmission. This Charter is still one of the
governing documents of the Present Order.
The Order continued in secret with an uninterrupted line of Grand
Masters until 1705. In March of that year a number of French nobles held
a convention of Templars at Versailles. They elected Philip, Duke of
Orleans, later Regent of France, as the Order's 41st Grand Master. Thus
as Regent of France and Grand Master of the Temple it provided an
official renewal and legitimisation of the Order of the Temple as a
Secular Military Order of Chivalry and also its right to resume the use
of "sovereign" in its title.
After the death of the Duke of Orleans in 1723, three Princes of Bourbon
were Grand Masters of the Order until 1776. That year the Duke of Cosse
Brissac accepted the Grand Mastership and remained in office until his
execution during the French Revolution in 1782. Having foreseen the
coming events he passed on the Order's archives and the Charter of
Transmission to Radix de Chevillon. The Order survived the Revolution
and went through a period of prosperity in France during the early C19th
with many people of high office asking to be admitted.
Between 1818 and 1841 the Order expanded greatly with over 20 Convents
in France and Priories set up in Great Britain, Germany, Belgium and
Switzerland. Legations were also established in Sweden, Brazil, India
and in New York.
In 1940 when France and Belgium were invaded by Nazi Germany, Emile
Joseph Issac Vandenburg who lived in Brussels was Grand Master. In order
to safeguard and ensure the survival of the Order he handed over his
rights to a Portuguese neutral, a nobleman, Count Antonio Campello Pinto
de Sousa Fontes who became the Regent pending an election of a Grand
Master. Since these times many Grand Priories have claimed Autonomous
status. However, in 1989 an International Federative Alliance was formed
with the intention of electing a new Grand Master.
There are now Knights Templar throughout Western Europe, Finland, North,
South and Central America, and Australia. Therefore the Order is truly
International and it is Ecumenical as the Order does not restrict
membership to any single Christian Denomination. The Order is not part
of any Masonic Cabal, does not engage in politics and does not encourage
or allow members to act contrary to their obligations to their
Country.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
David L. Webb
the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]
In article <380BA3FB...@erols.com>, Neuendorffer <ph...@erols.com>
(ph...@errors.comedy) wrote:
> A Short History of the Knights Templar
> http://www.kingmere.demon.co.uk/SMOTJ/history.html
> <<The Order was founded in Jerusalem in 1118 by Hughes de Payens
> Geoffroy de St. Omer
But Art -- "Saint Omer" is a perfect anagram of "Mason rite"! .
> King Baldwin II, the French King of Jerusalem (1118-1131) installed the
> Order in a part of his Palace, on the site of Solomon's Temple, for
> their residence, stables and armoury, from which it took its name of
> Knights of the Temple or Templars.
Of course, one should use Baldwin's French name, the name under
which he goVERned, BAUDOUIN. Note that "Baudouin" is a perfect anagram
of "I. Audubon"! By your idiotic "proper names" criterion, Art, this
discoVERy should be as momentous as the Droeshout=>Herodotus anagram!
Was Audubon a Masonic conspirator, Art?
> At the Council of Troyes in 1128 the Order was confirmed by Pope
> Honorius II, who gave it the strict Rule dictated by St. Bernard,
But Art -- "Saint Bernard" is an anagram of "Send brain. --Art".
I agree that you could use one.
> The Order's battle honours in defence of the Holy Land were many.
> Following the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 the Templars withdrew to Acre.
> They remained at Acre with Grand Master William de Beaujue until 1291
> when the city was captured and he was killed.
"Beaujeu" means "good game," Art. I knew you were trolling.
> After many years of sacrifices and rendering services to both
> Christianity and civilisation, this very rich and powerful Order excited
> the envy and greed of others. The principal malefactor was Phillipe le
> Bel, King of France, who was financially indebted to the Order. In 1307
> Phillipe arrested all serving Templars in France with the intention of
> sequestrating all the Order's possessions. However, these were hidden in
> a secret place and have never been found to this day.
That's what *you* think -- well-informed insiders know better.
Didn't you eVER wonder about the source of Berenger Sauniere's wealth
and his access to Emma Calve's select occultist circle, Art?
[...]
> Whereupon, the king dismissed [the Pope] and created his friend, the Bishop of
> Bordeaux, Pope Clement V, who readily issued a Bull suppressing the
> Order in 1312.
And you've been issuing Bull about the Templars eVER since, Art.
> Only in France were the Templars treated with any severity,
But Art -- "severity" is an anagram of "Vere ys it"!
> with Grand
> Master Jaques de Molay
But Art -- "de Molay" is an anagram of "Ye OM lad"! And "Iacques
de Molay" is an anagram of "I'd come as Quayle." Is Dan Quayle the
reincarnation of Jacques de Molay, Art?
Your heroes, Knight and Lomas, claim that de Molay is regarded by
Masonic initiates as the true Messiah, and that he was crucified by the
Inquisition. What do make of that, Art? Haven't read their sequel to
_The Hiram Key_ yet?
> and others burnt at the stake in March 1314 on an
> island in the Seine.
You're in Seine, Art!
> Prior to his martyrdom in 1314 Grand Master Jaques de Molay invested
> Jean-Marc Larmenius with his powers. Larmenius was unanimously
> recognised as the new Grand Master following de Molay's death. He
> gathered together the dispersed remnants of the Order and in 1324 gave
> the Order the Charter of Transmission. This Charter is still one of the
> governing documents of the Present Order.
Correct.
> The Order continued in secret with an uninterrupted line of Grand
> Masters until 1705. In March of that year a number of French nobles held
> a convention of Templars at Versailles. They elected Philip, Duke of
> Orleans, later Regent of France, as the Order's 41st Grand Master. [...]
> After the death of the Duke of Orleans in 1723, three Princes of Bourbon
> were Grand Masters of the Order until 1776. That year the Duke of Cosse
> Brissac accepted the Grand Mastership and remained in office until his
> execution during the French Revolution in 1782. Having foreseen the
> coming events he passed on the Order's archives and the Charter of
> Transmission to Radix de Chevillon.
But Art -- "Radix de Chevillon" is a perfect anagram of
De Ver (Ox.) lain child
-- pretty impressive corroboration of the allegations of pederasty
leveled at Oxford, wouldn't you say, Art?
What does all this Templar rubbish you keep posting have to do
with Shakespeare, Art? I'm just curious. This *is* a Shakespeare
newsgroup, you know.
David Webb
Neuendorffer
>
> > A Short History of the Knights Templar
> > http://www.kingmere.demon.co.uk/SMOTJ/history.html
>
> > <<The Order was founded in Jerusalem in 1118 by Hughes de Payens
> > Geoffroy de St. Omer
"David L. Webb" wrote:
>
> But Art -- "Saint Omer" is a perfect anagram of "Mason rite"! .
>
> > King Baldwin II, the French King of Jerusalem (1118-1131) installed the
> > Order in a part of his Palace, on the site of Solomon's Temple, for
> > their residence, stables and armoury, from which it took its name of
> > Knights of the Temple or Templars.
>
> Of course, one should use Baldwin's French name, the name under
> which he goVERned, BAUDOUIN. Note that "Baudouin" is a perfect anagram
> of "I. Audubon"! By your idiotic "proper names" criterion, Art, this
> discoVERy should be as momentous as the Droeshout=>Herodotus anagram!
> Was Audubon a Masonic conspirator, Art?
<<John Audubon gave several different accounts of his birth, but the
discovery of records in France in the early 1900's established that he
was the son of a French Naval Captain and a French girl who worked for
Captain Audubon at his sugar plantation in San Domingo (Haiti).
Audubon's real mother died within a short time after his birth so
Audubon's father took him back to France as a young child where he was
adopted by Captain Audubon and his legal wife. Apparently to hide his
illegitimate birth, Audubon gave different stories and led some people
to believe he was born in Louisiana or was the son of Louis XVI, the
King of France. A book entitled I Who Should Command All, leans heavily
on the belief that Audubon was, in fact, the Lost Dauphin who
disappeared from the tower during the French Revolution.>> --
http://www.audubon.org/nas/jja.html
>
> > At the Council of Troyes in 1128 the Order was confirmed by Pope
> > Honorius II, who gave it the strict Rule dictated by St. Bernard,
>
> But Art -- "Saint Bernard" is an anagram of "Send brain. --Art".
> I agree that you could use one.
This is my brain on HLAS.
> > The Order's battle honours in defence of the Holy Land were many.
> > Following the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 the Templars withdrew to Acre.
> > They remained at Acre with Grand Master William de Beaujue until 1291
> > when the city was captured and he was killed.
>
> "Beaujeu" means "good game," Art. I knew you were trolling.
>
> > After many years of sacrifices and rendering services to both
> > Christianity and civilisation, this very rich and powerful Order excited
> > the envy and greed of others. The principal malefactor was Phillipe le
> > Bel, King of France, who was financially indebted to the Order. In 1307
> > Phillipe arrested all serving Templars in France with the intention of
> > sequestrating all the Order's possessions. However, these were hidden in
> > a secret place and have never been found to this day.
>
> That's what *you* think -- well-informed insiders know better.
> Didn't you eVER wonder about the source of Berenger Sauniere's wealth
> and his access to Emma Calve's select occultist circle, Art?
Can't say that I have, Dave.
> > Whereupon, the king dismissed [the Pope] and created his friend, the Bishop of
> > Bordeaux, Pope Clement V, who readily issued a Bull suppressing the
> > Order in 1312.
>
> And you've been issuing Bull about the Templars eVER since, Art.
Did you see the bulls on Southampton's coat of arms:
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http://www.bermuda-online.org/seesouth.htm
<<Southampton Parish, in western Bermuda, was named in honor of its
patron, Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton (1573-1624).
He served against the Spaniards in the Calais Expedition of 1596 but in
1599 was implicated in the Essex Plot and imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth
1. Set free by King James on his accession, he was made a Knight of the
Garter. He died in the Low Countries where he had gone as a volunteer
once more to fight the tyranny of Spain. Always interested in overseas
exploration, he was a member of the
Council of the Virginia Company in 1605, the North West Company of 1612.
He was one of the band of gentlemen "Adventurers" who invested in the
newly formed Bermuda Company of 1615 to colonize the Bermuda islands.
He was the largest shareholder in the original Southampton Tribe.>>
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The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2
ARIEL Safely in harbour
Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once
Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetc[H] de[W]
From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:
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> > Only in France were the Templars treated with any severity,
>
> But Art -- "severity" is an anagram of "Vere ys it"!
>
> > with Grand Master Jaques de Molay
>
> But Art -- "de Molay" is an anagram of "Ye OM lad"! And "Iacques
> de Molay" is an anagram of "I'd come as Quayle." Is Dan Quayle the
> reincarnation of Jacques de Molay, Art?
Anthony Quayle perhaps.
> Your heroes, Knight and Lomas, claim that de Molay is regarded by
> Masonic initiates as the true Messiah, and that he was crucified by the
> Inquisition. What do make of that, Art? Haven't read their sequel to
> _The Hiram Key_ yet?
I've been kind of busy, Dave.
> > and others burnt at the stake in March 1314 on an
> > island in the Seine.
>
> You're in Seine, Art!
>
> > Prior to his martyrdom in 1314 Grand Master Jaques de Molay invested
> > Jean-Marc Larmenius with his powers. Larmenius was unanimously
> > recognised as the new Grand Master following de Molay's death. He
> > gathered together the dispersed remnants of the Order and in 1324 gave
> > the Order the Charter of Transmission. This Charter is still one of the
> > governing documents of the Present Order.
>
> Correct.
>
> > The Order continued in secret with an uninterrupted line of Grand
> > Masters until 1705. In March of that year a number of French nobles held
> > a convention of Templars at Versailles. They elected Philip, Duke of
> > Orleans, later Regent of France, as the Order's 41st Grand Master. [...]
> > After the death of the Duke of Orleans in 1723, three Princes of Bourbon
> > were Grand Masters of the Order until 1776. That year the Duke of Cosse
> > Brissac accepted the Grand Mastership and remained in office until his
> > execution during the French Revolution in 1782. Having foreseen the
> > coming events he passed on the Order's archives and the Charter of
> > Transmission to Radix de Chevillon.
>
> But Art -- "Radix de Chevillon" is a perfect anagram of
>
> De Ver (Ox.) lain child
>
> -- pretty impressive corroboration of the allegations of pederasty
> leveled at Oxford, wouldn't you say, Art?
<<In thys place seemeth to be some sauour of disorderly loue, which the
learned call paederastice: but it is gathered beside his meaning. For
who that hath red Plato his dialogue called Alcybiades, Xenophon and
Maximus
Tyrius of Socrates opinions, may easily perceiue, that such loue is
muche to be alowed and liked of, specially so meant, as Socrates vsed
it: who sayth, that in deede he loued Alcybiades extremely, yet not
Alcybiades person, but hys soule, which is Alcybiades owne selfe. And so
is paederastice much to be praeferred before gynerastice, that is the
loue whiche enflameth men with lust toward woman kind. But yet let no
man thinke, that herein I stand with Lucian or hys deuelish disciple
Vnico Aretino, in defence of execrable and horrible sinnes of forbidden
and vnlawful fleshlinesse. Whose abominable errour is fully confuted of
Perionius, and others.>> Januarye Gloss - The Shepheardes Calender
> What does all this Templar rubbish you keep posting have to do
> with Shakespeare, Art? I'm just curious. This *is* a Shakespeare
> newsgroup, you know.
Did the Grand Master authorize your answering my post?
(I'm just curious.)
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Art Neuendorffer
Neuendorffer
> What does all this Templar rubbish you keep posting have to do
> with Shakespeare, Art? I'm just curious. This *is* a Shakespeare
> newsgroup, you know.
What does an illiterate butcher's son have to do with Shake-speare
other than the fact that his supposed 'associates' were Middle Templars:
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Dave Kathman informs us that:
<<There was a rather
complex web of friendship and kinship extending from Stratford
some 18 miles to the south and involving some three dozen
Middle Templars, and Shakespeare was smack in the middle
of this web. His known friends who were member of the
Middle Temple included Thomas Greene (who I wrote about
in my post "Was Shakespeare an Unlettered Boob?") and William
Combe I (who sold land to Shakespeare in 1602), both of whom
were lawyers by profession. But the web included the majority
of Shakespeare's other known friends in Stratford, including
Thomas Combe II, John Combe II, William Reynolds,
Anthony Nashe, John Nashe, Dr. John Hall, William Replingham,
Ralph Huband, Thomas Bushell, Thomas Russell, and Richard
Quiney; all of these were related to or friends with at least
one Middle Templar, and in most cases several. The details
of these relationships are given in a series of six articles by
Christopher Whitfield published in *Notes and Queries* in
the 1960s (October 1961, pp. 364-72; April 1966, pp.122-5;
August 1966, pp.283-7; October 1966, pp. 363-9; December
1966, pp. 443-8; April 1967, pp. 123-30). With all the
connections between William Shakespeare of Stratford and
the Middle Temple, I think it's interesting that William
Shakespeare's *Twelfth Night* was performed at the Middle
Temple on February 2, 1602.>>
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<<Barristers in England & Wales are called to the bar at one of the four
Inns of Court. Two of these were taken over from the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
(Inner Temple, Middle Temple), and two were formerly the London palaces
of great noblemen, Lord Gray and the Earl of Lincoln. "Inn" in medieval
times had the same meaning as "hotel" in old French -- a town house.>>
-- THE RUMPOLEAN FAQ, Brenda Sharpe
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David Kathman also wrote:
>The scholarly consensus, on the basis of internal evidence, is
> that *The Second Maiden's Tragedy* was written by Thomas Middleton.
And, of course, Thomas Middleton is a front
for Middle Temple writers like THOMAS GREENE:
> That same spring of 1603, Greene wrote
>a commendatory sonnet for Drayton's *The Barons Warres*, his
>only other published work. Here it is, in original spelling:
>
>To M. Michael Drayton
>
> What Ornament might I devise, to fit
> Th'aspiring height of thy admired Spirit?
> Or what faire Garland worthy is to sit
> On thy blest Browes, that COMPASSE in all Merit?
> Thou shalt not crowned be with common Bayes,
> Because for thee it is a Crowne too low,
> Apollo's Tree can yeeld thee simple praise,
> It is too dull a Vesture for thy Brow;
> But with a Wreathe of Starres, shalt thou be crown'd,
> Which when thy working TEMPLES do sustaine,
> WILL like the SPhEAREs be EVER moving round,
> After the royall Musike of thy Braine:
> Thy Skill doth equall Phoebus, not thy Birth:
> He to Heaven gives Musike, thou to Earth.
>
> THOMAS GREENE
>Greene's poem contains allusions to Samuel Daniel (Delia) and
>Michael Drayton (Idea). He was a personal friend of Drayton,
>who was friendly with many members of the Middle and Inner
>Temples around this time.
Good Knights Templar/Freemasons all.
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David Kathman wrote:
>The poem I posted is entitled "A Poet's Vision and a Prince's
>Glory", and it was published in 1603 with a dedication to
>King James I. This poem was one of many poems
>printed in the spring of 1603 which mourned Elizabeth and/or
>welcomed James to London. It was written while Greene was
>finishing up his studies at the Middle Temple in 1603; among
>his fellow students there was John Manningham, the now-famous
>diarist who described a performance of *Twelfth Night* in
>the Middle Temple hall on February 2, 1602 and told a bawdy
>anecdote about Shakespeare and Richard Burbage. Manningham
>knew Greene, and quotes him in his diary for February 5, 1603:
>"There is best sport always when you put a woman on the case."
>Greene was called to the bar that summer, after which he moved
>to Stratford (where he had already represented the town in some
>business matters) and became town clerk.
Town clerk => THE IDEAL JOB for faking town documents!
> He represented
>Shakespeare in the 1608-9 lawsuit Shakespeare v. Addenbrooke,
>during which William Shakespeare was described as "generosus,
>nuper in curia domini Jacobi, nunc regis Anglie" (gentleman,
>recently at the court of lord James, present king of England).
Any mention that Shakespeare was a playwright?
>In 1609 he was living at Shakespeare's house, New Place, and
>said he hoped to stay there another year; in fact he bought
>a new house in Stratford in 1611. He kept a diary in 1614-16
>to record the enclosure controversy, in which he mentions
>his "COSEN" Shakespeare several times. This diary was
>preserved among his papers in the Stratford town archives;
COSEN or COZEN, v.t. [From cousin, hence, literally,
to deceive through pretext of relationship, F. cousiner.]
To cheat; to defraud; to beguile;
to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
>In 1617, the year after Shakespeare's death, Greene moved back
>to London and took up residence at the Middle Temple, where he
>eventually held several offices.
By 1617 that his Stratford duties were all done.
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THOMAS RUSSELL (overseer of Shakespeare's will)
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Oxford inherited Bilton Manor (on the south bank of the Avon
near the forest of Arden on the outskirts of Rugby) from his
grandmother Elizabeth Trussell (1496-1527).
It is the only Oxford house still standing today.
/---------------------------------------------\
| |
William Blount Constance Blount --- Thomas
[Lord Mountjoy] Elizabeth TRUSSELL | Tyrrell
| | |
| John deVere --- Margery - Charles
Tyrrell
Katherine Blount --- Maurice Berekely |
| | |
| Edward deVere <--( black horse )
Widow Russell --- Henry BEREKELY
|
|
THOMAS RUSSELL (---- overseer of Shakespeare's will)
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Shakespeare's Stratford Friends by Dave Kathman
http://www.clark.net/pub/tross/ws/friends.html
<<The final Shakespeare friend I'm going to mention is THOMAS RUSSELL.
He was one of two overseers of Shakespeare's will, an honor which
implies a close friendship. . . Russell had plenty of friends and
relatives in high places . . . One of his stepfather's good friends and
neighbors was SIR JOHN HARINGTON, the courtier, godson of Queen
Elizabeth, and author of THE METAMORPHOSIS OF AJAX;
RUSSELL no doubt knew HARINGTON well when he was growing up.>>
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"R. Yerington" wrote:
>
> I am not unsympathetic to non-Statfordian points of view, particularly
> the correspondences between events in the plays and events in the lives
> of others, but LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. This is as hard a
> piece of evidence as is likely to come along regarding Shakespeare.
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LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY
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The History of Plumbing - Roman and English Legacy
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/pmroman.html
<<The English Origins:There was a noble origin to the water closet in
its earliest days. Sir JOHN HARRISON, godson to Queen Elizabeth, set
about making a "necessary" for his godmother and himself in 1596. A
rather accomplished inventor, HARRINGTON ended his career with this
invention, for he was ridiculed by his peers for this absurd device. He
never built
another one, though he and his godmother both used theirs.>>
History of Plumbing in America
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/pmamerica.html
<<Closet Lore: Over 2,800 years ago, the fabled King Minos of Crete
owned the world's first flushing water closet, complete with a wooden
seat. Lost for centuries in the rubble of the palace ruins, the
invention did not materialize again until 1594. Then, SIR JOHN HARINGTON
built a "prive in perfection" for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth, to use
in Richmond Palace, and one for himself at his humbler estate. Once he
published his pompous book of terrible puns and off color jokes about
the new device in 1596, A New Discourse of a State Subject, Called THE
METAMORPHOSIS OF AJAX, the ridicule and scorn would hound him for the
rest of his days, and he never built another one. ("Ajax" was the slang
in those days for a privy or "a jakes.")>>
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Art Neuendorffer
Neuendorffer
> Of course, one should use Baldwin's French name,
> the name under which he goVERned, BAUDOUIN.
> Note that "Baudouin" is a perfect anagram of "I. Audubon"!
> By your idiotic "proper names" criterion, Art, this
> discoVERy should be as momentous as the Droeshout=>Herodotus anagram!
> Was Audubon a Masonic conspirator, Art?
<<John Audubon gave several different accounts of his birth, but the
discovery of records in France in the early 1900's established that he
was the son of a French Naval Captain and a French girl who worked for
Captain Audubon at his sugar plantation in San Domingo (Haiti).
Audubon's real mother died within a short time after his birth so
Audubon's father took him back to France as a young child where he was
adopted by Captain Audubon and his legal wife. Apparently to hide his
illegitimate birth, Audubon gave different stories and led some people
to believe he was born in Louisiana or was the son of Louis XVI, the
King of France. A book [by A.I. TYLER] entitled _I Who Should Command
All_, leans heavily on the belief that Audubon was, in fact, the Lost
Dauphin who disappeared from the tower during the French Revolution.>>
--
http://www.audubon.org/nas/jja.html
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"Looky here, Bilgewater," he says, "I'm nation
sorry for you, but you ain't the only person that's had
troubles like that."
"No?"
"No you ain't. You ain't the only person that's
ben snaked down wrongfully out'n a high place."
"Alas!"
"No, you ain't the only person that's had a secret
of his birth." And, by jings, HE begins to cry.
"Hold! What do you mean?"
"Bilgewater, kin I trust you?" says the old man,
still sort of sobbing.
To the bitter death!" He took the old man by
the hand and squeezed it, and says, "That secret of
your being: speak!"
"Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!"
You bet you, Jim and me stared this time. Then
the duke says:
"You are what?"
"Yes, my friend, it is too true -- your eyes is look-
in' at this very moment on the pore disappeared
Dauphin, Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Six-
teen and Marry Antonette."
"You! At your age! No! You mean you're
the late Charlemagne; you must be six or seven hun-
dred years old, at the very least."
"Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done
it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this prema-
ture balditude. Yes, gentlemen, you see before you,
in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled, tram-
pled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France.">>
-- Huckleberry Finn
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Bartholomew Fair - Ben Jonson
L: Aye Sir, I heard him. but there is no talking to these water-men,
they will have the last word.
G: God is my life! I am not allied to the Sculler, yet; he
shall be Dauphin my boy. But my Fiddle-sticke does fiddle in and
out too much; I pray thee speake to him, of it: tell him, I would
have him tarry in my sight, more.
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