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In 1608 Thomas Greene and his wife Leticia living at
*NEW PLACE* , Stratford-on-Avon, had a son, William.
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EPIGRAMS. BOOK I. The Author B. J.
.
64. To [Robert (Cecil) Earl of Salisbury. (May 4, 1608)]
Upon the Accession of the Treasurership to him.
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NOt glad, like those that have new Hopes, or Suits,
With thy *NEW PLACE* , bring I [Th]ese ear[L]y Fruits
[O]f Love, an[D] what the [G]olden Ag[E] did hold
A Treasure, Art: Condemn'd in th' Age of Gold.
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_ <= 8 =>
. *N E W P L A C E* (May 4, 1597)
. b r i n g I[T h]
. e s e e a r[L]y
. F r u i t s[O]f
. L o v e,a n[D]w
. h a T t h e[G]o
. l d E n A g[E]d
. i d H o l d A T
. r e A s u r e,
.
[T LODGE] 8 Prob. in epigram ~ 1 in 7250
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http://www.johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/toc.asp?t=_cat/io001.htm&m=cat/...
*NEW PLACE* remained in possession of Shakespeare's successors
until the Restoration; it was then purchased by the Clopton family:
about 1752 it was sold by the executor of Sir Hugh to a clergyman
of the name of Francis GASTRELL, who, on some offence
taken at the authorities of the borough of Stratford,
on the subject of rating the house, PULLED IT DOWN,
and cut down the MULBERRY tree.
According to a letter in the Annual Register of 1760,
the wood was bought by a silver-smith,
who "made many odd things of it for the curious.">>
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THE NAMES IN WRITING OF Oxford's PRINCIPAL MEN.
[G]ASTRELL [H]orsleye
[G]abriel [H]arvey
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<<the Blackfriars affair: June 18, 1582: The junior master of
Caverley's fencing-school, which shared Blackfriars with the theatre,
was able to name Oxford's two men as [G]ASTRELL and [H]orsleye:
"Seeing swords drawn, and having only about him a single sword,
he went in amongst them--- only to keep the peace.">> CO2 p.652
http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/library/bowen/20babbles.htm
<<On 22nd June, 1582: "Upon Friday last, in the afternoon," they saw
one called GASTRELL and "maned"' to be my Lord of Oxford's man draw
his sword upon 3 or 4 of Mr. Knyvet's men. And one of Mr. Knyvet's men
said twice or thrice: "Put up thy sword GASTRELL, we will not deal
with thee here, there is no place here," and xxxred the street to bear
witness. GASTRELL replied and said he would fight with them, and one
HARVEY, my Lord of Oxford's man, would have parted the fray and willed
GASTRELL to put up his sword, which he did accordingly. And then one
of Mr. Knyvet's men said: "GASTRELL, another time use thy discretion."
Whereupon GASTRELL drew again and ran upon one of Mr. Knyvet's men
furiously; and they struck 5 or 6 blows, and Mr. Knyvet's man hurt
GASTRELL. The rest of Mr. Knyvet's men had their swords drawn but
struck not at all. HARVEY, my Lord of Oxford's man, with his sword
drawn, would have parted the fray and (according to Bothame) was hurt
by chance, by GASTRELL, for he did not see any of Mr. Knyvet's men
strike at him, or he at any of them."
The part played by HARVEY here may be of special interest to students
of the Elizabethan literary world, for though no Christian name is
given, this was in all probability Spenser's and Sidney's friend and
Nashe's enemy, the eccentric Cambridge don, [G]abriel [H]ARVEY; who is
known to have been a protégé of the Earl of Oxford at about this time.
There is no evidence that either Oxford or Knyvet was present on this
occasion>>
<<1583: GASTRELL avenged the day at Blackfriars. He killed one of
Knyvet's men called Long Tom. This comes ot in a letter of March 12th
from Burghley to Christopher Hatton. Long Tom, [a former Oxford man],
was "a bad fellow" and Burghley says he is sending Hatton the records
of the Coroner's inquest acquitting [former Oxford man] GASTRELL.>>
CO2 p.653
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Apocrypha 1 Esdras 6:9
*Building an house unto the Lord, great and new* , of hewn and costly
STONEs, and the TIMBER already laid upon the walls. Then asked we
these elders, saying, By whose commandment build ye this house,
and lay the foundations of these works? Therefore to the intent
that we might give knowledge unto thee by writing,
we demanded of them who were the chief doers, and
WE REQUIRED OF THEM THE NAMES
IN WRITING OF THEIR PRINCIPAL MEN.
So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which
made heaven and earth. And as for this house, it was builded many
years
ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished. But when
our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned against the Lord
of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into the power
of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, of the Chaldees;
WHO PULLED DOWN THE HOUSE, and BURNED IT,
and carried away the people captives unto Babylon.
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1613 The First Globe BURNED
1644 The Second Globe PULLED DOWN
1759 Francis GASTRELL PULLED DOWN New Place & BURNED it.
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http://www.xrefer.com/entry/554920
<<At his death, the house passed to his daughter, Susanna, and her
husband, Dr John Hall, and then to their daughter and son-in-law,
Elizabeth & Thomas Nash. New Place was sold in 1675 to Sir Edward
WALKER, and passed from him to his daughter and, in 1699, into the
Clopton family. It was extensively rebuilt by Sir John Clopton,
who settled it on his son, Hugh, in 1702 before it was ready for
reoccupation. When Sir Hugh died, it passed to his daughters, who sold
it to the Reverend Francis GASTRELL in 1756. He demolished it in
1759.>>
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http://www.btinternet.com/~steveaj/Shakespeare/nash.htm
<<A subsequent owner, Rev Francis GASTRELL, the Canon of Lichfield,
spent only half of each year in the house and disputed having
to pay full rates on the property. The town council disagreed,
so in 1759 HE BURNT THE HOUSE DOWN.>>
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_____ {UT} [MASTER MASONS]
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___ <= 21 =>
.
. {U} P o n t h e L i n e s a n d L i f e o f
. {T} H e F a m o u s S c e n i c k e P o e t
.
. [M A S T E R] W I L L I A M S H A K E S P E
. [A] R E T h o s e h a n d s w h i c h y o u
. [S] O c l a p t g o n o w a n d w r i n g Y
. [O] u B r i t a i n e s b r a v e f o r d o
. [N] e a r e S h a k e s p e a r e s d a y e
. [S]
.
[MASONS] 21 : Prob. at start of poem ~ 1 in 9460
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stone
<<In 1619 {N}icholas {STONE} (1586/87 – 24 Aug. 1647) was appointed [MASTER MASON] to James I, and in 1626 to Charles I. During his career he was the mason responsible for the most prominent of his era. {N}icholas {STONE} also designed *DIGGES* chapel for, Sir Dudley Digges (1583–1639), older brother of [L]eonard [DIGGES] (1588–1635), to contain his monument to Lady Digges. Stone's non-sepulchre sculpture includes a collection of statues in good repair at *Wilton House*. Stone's 1631 monument to Dr John Donne, at St Pauls Cathedral depicts the poet, standing upon an urn, dressed in a winding cloth, rising for the moment of judgement. Another of Stone's finest works is the effigy of Elizabeth, Lady Carey in the parish church at Stowe Nine Churches, Northamptonshire. While other surviving examples of his monuments to the dead include those to: *Sir FRANCIS VERE*, Earl of Middlesex; Thomas, Lord Knivett, at Stanwell, Middlesex; Sir Nicholas Bacon, in Redgrave church, Suffolk (with Janssens).>>
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First Folio (1623)
TO THE MEMORIE of the deceased Authour
Maister W. SHAKESPEARE.
SHake-speare, at length thy pious fellowes giue
The world thy Workes: thy Workes, by which, out-liue
Thy Tombe, thy name must: when that {STONE} is rent,
And Time dissolues thy {STRATFORD MONIMENT},
Here we aliue shall view thee still. This Booke,
When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke
Fresh to all Ages: when Posteritie
Shall loath what's new, thinke all is prodegie
That I{S} NOT *S[H]AKE-SPEARES*; eu'ry Line, each Verse
Here shall reuiu{E}, rE[D]eeme thee from thy Herse.
Nor Fire, nor cankring Age, a{S N|A]so said,
Of his, {T}hy wit-fraught B{O}oke shall once i{N}vadE.
[N|O}r shall I {E}'re beleeve, or thinke thee dead.
(Though mis{T}) [U]nt{I}ll our bankrout Stage be sped
(Impossible) with som[E] new straine t' out-do
{P}assions of Iuliet, and her Romeo;
{O}[R] till I heare a Scene more nobly take,
{T}hen when thy half=[S|WORD} parlying Romans spake.
{T}ill these, till any of thy (v)olumes rest
Shall with more fire, more feeling be expr{E}st,
Be sure, our Shake=speare, thou canst n[EVER DYE],
But cr{O}wn'd with Lawrell, liue eternally.
[L]. [DIGGES].
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. <= 14 =>
.
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. B {O} o k e s h a l l o n c e
. i {N} v a d e[N]o r s h a l l
. I {E}'r e b e l e e v e,o r t
. h i n k e t h e e d e a d.
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{N/STONE} 14 : Prob. in poem ~ 1 in 280
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.
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. eorthinketheedeadThoughm i s T[U]n t{I}l l o u r b a n k r o utSt
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. noblytakeThenwhenthyhalf [S|W O R D}p a r l y i n g R o m a n sspa
. keTillthesetillanyofthyv o l u m e s r e s t S h a l l w i t hmor
. efiremorefeelingbeexprEs t B e s u r e o u r S h a k e s p e aret
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. lly.
.
[H.DANUERS] 45 : Prob. in poem ~ 1 in 192,000
(IONES) -47 : Prob. mear [H.DANUERS] ~ 1 in 950
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. "Moore C W The Freemasons Monthly Magazine Vol IV 1845"
.
GRAND MASTERS, OR PATRONS, OF THE FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS IN ENGLAND,
.
1618.[W]illiam [H]erbert , Earl of Pembroke, was chosen Grand Master.
. He appointed Inigo {IONES} his Deputy.
.
Charles I., a Royal Mason and Grand Patron by Prerogative ;
. under him [H]enry [DANVERS], Earl of Danby, who erected
. the beautiful gate of the Physick Gardens, at Oxford.
.
1630-1-2. [H]enry [DANVERS] , Earl of Danby.
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> | Art Neuendorffer wrote:
> | > --------------------------------------------------------
> | > (The King James & only the King James version):
> | > Psalm 46
> | > "SHAKE" is the 46th word from the beginning,
> | > and "SPEAR" is the 46th word from the end.
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David L. Webb <David.L.W...@Dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> | I've already pointed out to you that this is false, Art,
> | as Martin Gardner, has pointed out; as I already said,
> | "In Richard TaVERner's 1539 VERsion of Psalm 46,
> | 'shake' & 'spear' are in *precisely* the same positions.
> | HoweVER, one would scarcely expect
> | aneuendorffer114...@comicass.nut
> | to have VERified his idiotic claims about matters of fact."
> | Are you completely senile, Art?
> | Or are you just oblivious to facts?
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Peter Groves wrote:
>
> I've just had a look at the text on EEBO
> (Early English Books Online) and while "spere" is 47 words from
> the end (not counting "Selah"), Taverner has "shooke" rather
> than "shake" and it's actually 57 words from the beginning.
> Also, for some reason, he numbers the psalm 45.
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(Richard TaVERner's 1539 VERsion):
Psalm *45*
"*SHOOKE*" is the *57*th word from the beginning,
and "SPERE" is the *47*th word from the end.
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(The King James & only the King James Version):
Psalm *46*
"SHAKE" is the *46*th word from the beginning,
and "SPEAR" is the *46*th word from the end.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford_Botanic_Garden
<<The Danby gateway to the Botanic Garden is one of three entrances designed by {N}icholas {STONE} between 1632 & 1633. It is one of the earliest structures in Oxford to use classical style. In this highly ornate arch, Stone ignored the new simple classical Palladian style currently fashionable, which had just been introduced to England from Italy by Inigo {IONES}. The pediments of the lateral bays are seemingly supported by circular columns which frame niches containing statues of Charles I & Charles II in classical pose. The tympanum of the central pediment contains a segmented niche containing a bust of [H]enry [DANVERS], Earl of Danby.>>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inigo_Jones
<<Inigo {IONES} (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant English architect in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. JonesH was the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to Britain. He made major contributions to stage design by his work as theatrical designer for several dozen masques, most by royal command and many in collaboration with Ben Jonson. One of Jones's design work was "double cube" room. Wilton House was renovated from about 1630 onwards, at times worked on by Jones, then passed on to Isaac de Caus when Jones was too busy with royal clients. He then returned in 1646 with his student, *JOHN WEBB*, to try and complete the project. Contemporary equivalent architects included {N}icholas {STONE}. Jones is also said to be responsible for the Masonic Document called "The Inigo Jones Manuscript", from around 1607. A document of the Old Charges of Freemasonry.
http://theoldcharges.com/chapter-17.html
Beyond the fact that he was born in Smithfield, London, the son of Inigo Jones, a Welsh cloth worker, and baptised at the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less, little is known about Jones's early years. There is evidence that Christopher Wren obtained information that recorded Jones as an apprentice joiner in St Paul's Churchyard. At some point before 1603 a rich patron (possibly the *Earl of Pembroke* or the *Earl of Rutland*) sent him to Italy to study drawing after being impressed by the quality of his sketches. From Italy he travelled to Denmark where he worked for King Christian on the design of the palaces of Rosenborg and Frederiksborg.
Jones first became famous as a designer of costumes and stage settings, especially after he brought "masques" to the stage. Under the patronage of Queen Anne (the consort of King James I), he is credited with introducing movable scenery and the proscenium arch to English theatre. Between 1605 and 1640, he was responsible for staging over 500 performances, collaborating with Ben Jonson for many years: the two had arguments about whether stage design or literature was more important in theatre. (Jonson ridiculed Jones in a series of his works, written over a span of two decades.) Over 450 drawings for the scenery and costumes survive, demonstrating Jones's virtuosity as a draughtsman and his development between 1605 and 1609 exhibiting an "accomplished Italianate manner" and understanding of Italian set design. This suggests a second visit to Italy, circa 1606, influenced by the ambassador Henry Wotton. Jones learned to speak Italian fluently and there is evidence that he owned an Italian copy of Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura with marginalia that refer to Wotton.
In 1609, having perhaps accompanied Lord Salisbury's son and heir, Viscount Cranborne, around France, Jones appears as an architectural consultant at Hatfield House, making small modifications to the design as the project progressed, and in 1610, Jones was appointed Surveyor to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. He devised a masque for the Prince and was possibly involved in some alterations to St James's Palace.
On 27 April 1613, Jones was appointed the position of Surveyor of the King's Works and shortly after, embarked on a tour of Italy with the Earl of Arundel, destined to become one of the most important patrons in the history of English art. His surviving sketchbook shows his preoccupation with such artists as Parmigianino and Schiavone. He is also known to have met Vincenzo Scamozzi at this time. Jones gave priority to Roman antiquity rather than observing the contemporary fashion in Italy.
In September 1615, Jones was appointed Surveyor-General of the King's Works. Fortunately, both James I and Charles I spent lavishly on their buildings, contrasting hugely with the economical court of Elizabeth I. In 1616, work began on the Queen's House, Greenwich, for James I's wife, Anne. With the foundations laid and the first storey built, work stopped suddenly when Anne died in 1619. Work resumed in 1629, but this time for Charles I's Queen, Henrietta Maria. It was finished in 1635 as the first strictly classical building in England, employing ideas found in the architecture of Palladio and ancient Rome.
Between 1619 and 1622, the Banqueting House in the Palace of Whitehall was built to which a ceiling painted by Peter Paul Rubens was added several years later. The Whitehall palace was one of several projects where Jones worked with his personal assistant and nephew by marriage *JOHN WEBB*.
The Queen's Chapel, St. James's Palace, was built between 1623 and 1627, for Charles I's Roman Catholic wife, Henrietta Maria. Parts of the design originate in the Pantheon of ancient Rome and Jones evidently intended the church to evoke the Roman temple.
The other project in which Jones was involved is the design of Covent Garden square. He was commissioned by the Earl of Bedford to build a residential square, which he did along the lines of the Italian piazza of Livorno. It is the first regularly planned square in London. The Earl felt obliged to provide a church and he warned Jones that he wanted to economise. He told him to simply erect a "barn" and Jones's oft-quoted response was that his lordship would have "the finest barn in Europe". In the design of St Paul's, Jones faithfully adhered to Vitruvius's design for a Tuscan temple and it was the first wholly and authentically classical church built in England. The inside of St Paul's, Covent Garden was gutted by fire in 1795, but externally it remains much as Jones designed it and dominates the west side of the piazza.
Another large project Jones undertook was the repair and remodelling of St Paul's Cathedral. Between the years of 1634 and 1642, Jones wrestled with the dilapidated Gothicism of Old St Paul's, casing it in classical masonry and totally redesigning the west front. Jones incorporated the giant scrolls from Vignola and della Porta's Church of the Gesù with a giant Corinthian portico, the largest of its type north of the Alps, but was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
Jones's contribution to a building may also simply be verbal instructions to a mason or bricklayer and providing an Italian engraving or two as a guide, or the correction of drafts. In the 1630s, Jones was in high demand and, as Surveyor to the King, his services were only available to a very limited circle of people, so often projects were commissioned to other members of the Works. Stoke Bruerne Park in Northamptonshire was built by Sir Francis Crane, "receiving the assistance of Inigo Jones", between 1629 and 1635. Jones is also thought to have been involved in another country house, this time in Wiltshire.
Jones's full-time career effectively ended with the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 and the seizure of the King's houses in 1643. Jones was captured at the third siege of Basing House in October 1645. Unfortunately, as one of the last great strongholds to the Cavaliers, the great mansion inside was destroyed by Cromwell's army and even the walls were broken into many pieces. His property was later returned to him (c. 1646) but Jones ended his days, unmarried, living in Somerset House. He died on 21 June 1652 and was subsequently buried with his parents at St Benet Paul's Wharf, the Welsh church of the City of London. John Denham and then Christopher Wren followed him as King's Surveyor of Works. A monument dedicated to him in the church, ironically portraying St Paul's Cathedral and other buildings, was destroyed in the Great Fire in 1666.>>
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> Lea wrote:
>
> <<If you will write a clear exposition of your "calculation" *in English*,
> I will try to show it to two colleagues, one of whom is Chair of the
> Statistics Department at a major uniVERsity and the other of whom is
> a renowned statistician at an Ivy League institution
> and a former student of the great Kolmogorov.>>
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There are 27,302 possible positions for an 8 letter ELS skip of 2 to 45.
.
The "raw" probability of [H.DANUERS] in any one of those positions is:
.
. 1 in 5,230,781,000 {see below}
.
Hence, the probability of [H.DANUERS] showing up as an ELS is ~ 1 in 191,590
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H : 57 in 785 total letters
D : 18 in 784 total letters
A : 55 in 783 total letters
N : 42 in 782 total letters
U or V : 29 in 781 total letters
E : 122 in 780 total letters
R : 52 in 779 total letters
S : 61 in 778 total letters
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[H.DANUERS] "raw" prob. = [57*18*55*42*29*122*52*61x(777!)/(785!)]
[H.DANUERS] "raw" prob. = 1 in 5,230,781,000
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[H.DANUERS] prob. ~ 27,302 in 5,230,781,000 ~ 1 in 191,590
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http://www.geocities.ws/garydanvers/PS-funeral.html
Future Masonic Grand Master Henry Danvers leading the funeral cortege
of Sir Philip Sidney... uncle to First Folio's two dedicatees:
Philip & William Herbert (Masonic Grand Master in 1623)
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Lea wrote:
<<I'll show your crackpot cryptography to two experts, Art.
It may take a while, though.>>
Thanks, Dave.
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Art Neuendorffer