Arthur Neuendorffer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Beeston
<<Christopher Beeston (c. 1579 – c. 15 Oct. 1638) was a successful actor and a powerful theatrical impresario in early 17th century London. He was associated with a number of playwrights, particularly Thomas Heywood.
Little is known of Beeston's early life. He has not so far been decisively connected with the William Beeston mentioned by Thomas Nashe in *STRANGE* News. Beeston has been conjecturally associated with the "Kit" in the surviving plot of Richard Tarlton's The Seven Deadly Sins. Augustine Phillips bequeathed "his servant" Beeston thirty shillings in his 1605 last will and testament, indicating that Beeston had been that actor's apprentice with the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Beeston played in the company's 1598 production of Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour. So it appears that Beeston started as a boy player and later graduated to adult roles.
In 1602 a woman named Margaret White, the widow of a cloth worker, accused Beeston of raping her on Midsummer night and leaving her pregnant. Beeston denied the charge, in a riotous hearing attended by his fellow actors who "much abused the place". The hearing recommended that Beeston be prosecuted, but no records of a trial survive.
Beeston left the Lord Chamberlain's Men and moved on to Worcester's Men in August 1602. He stayed with Worcester's Men through its transformation into Queen Anne's Men, eventually becoming the troupe's manager. In this capacity, he worked closely with Thomas Heywood, producing most of that prolific writer's plays at the Red Bull Theatre. Beeston was sued twice, in 1619 and 1623, in business disputes. The documentary records reveal that Beeston had treated company funds as his own, charging the company for properties he had purchased with its money. The company, already in difficult straits, limped along until the death of Queen Anne in 1619. For a brief time, the remnants of the company toured the countryside, but they soon disappeared.
Beeston, meantime, had established the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane. Beeston's interest in this theatre dates to 1616, when he bought a cockfight ring, possibly employing Inigo Jones to convert it to a theatre. The new establishment, still called the Cockpit Theatre after its former function, opened in 1616. On Shrove Tuesday 1617, a mob of apprentices ransacked and torched the theatre; patrons of the Red Bull, they appear to have been angry that their favourite plays had been moved to the more-exclusive (and expensive) indoor theatre. When Beeston rebuilt the theatre, he named it the Phoenix, but it was still frequently called the Cockpit. Beeston regularly bribed Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, and once bought the Master's wife a pair of gloves worth "at least 20 shillings." From 1619 until his death in 1638, Beeston ran both theatres with a succession of companies, ranging from Prince Charles' Men and Queen Henrietta's Men to the last group of child actors, commonly called Beeston's Boys. The Cockpit offered credible competition to the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre for the wealthier set of playgoers; Beeston employed fashionable playwrights such as John Ford and James Shirley to attract these audiences. After the temporary demise and ultimate eclipse of the Fortune Theatre in 1621, the Red Bull was the main attraction in Middlesex for citizens and apprentices. Beeston died in 1638, leaving his theatrical interests in the hands of his son William Beeston.>>
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https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/dedication-to-strange-news/
. . The Dedication to *STRANGE* News (1592)
Transcribed With Commentary by Charles Wisner Barrell.
Reprinted from the October 1944 issue of the Shakespeare Fellowship Quarterly
. To the most copious Carminist of our time, and famous
. persecutor of Priscian his verie friend Master Apis Lapis
This classically derived allegorical pun appears to have stumped every editor of *STRANGE* News up to the present day. Grosart and Prof. McKerrow both read it as “Master Beestone” and conclude that The Epistle Dedicatorie is addressed to a certain shadowy William Beeston, a person unaccounted for beyond the uncorroborated statement that he was a brother of Christopher Beeston, an actor in the company of Lord *STRANGE* who later is styled “servant or valet to the Shakespearean player, Augustine Phillips.”
John Payne Collier seems to be responsible for the statement that William Beeston was “a man of some authority on matters of poetry.”
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https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/john-gay
<<John Gay, the celebrated poet and dramatist, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on 23rd December 1732, in the central part of the area near Thomas {PARR}'s grave. The funeral was a lavish affair and Alexander Pope was one of the pall bearers. A monument was erected for him against the south wall and the monument to Samuel Butler was moved to accommodate it. But in the 1930s this, and the adjoining monument to Nicholas Rowe, was moved to the Abbey's triforium as *DOUBTING THOMAS* wall paintings were discovered behind them during cleaning. The marble monument consists of a high relief portrait of the poet on a roundel against a pyramid with masks, a trumpet and pan-pipes above. At the top is a cartouche showing his coat of arms: "or, on a fess sable between three escallops azure, five lozenges argent". The sculptor was John Michael Rysbrack. Just below the portrait bust is an inscription composed by the poet himself:
________ Life is a jest; and all things show it,
________ I thought so once; but now I know it. >>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle
<<John 20:24–29 tells how *DOUBTING THOMAS* was skeptical at first when he *HEARD* that Jesus had risen from the dead and appeared to the other apostles, saying, "Except I shall *SEE* on his hands the print of the nails... I will not believe."[20:25] Jesus then said, "Thomas, because thou hast *SEEN* me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not *SEEN*, and [yet] have believed.">>
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http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/anagrams/text.html
____ *EDOUARUS VEIERUS*
_____ per anagramma
____ *AURE SURDUS VIDEO*
.
_______ *EDWARD VERE*
______ by an anagram
____ *DEAFE IN MY (EARE), I SEE*>>
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John Taylor was born in the parish of St. Ewen's, near South Gate, Gloucester on 24 August 1578. In the early 1590's, after his failed attempt at grammar school he moved from his home to South London, most likely Southwark, to begin an apprenticeship as a waterman. Taylor discusses the watermen's disputes with the theatre companies. The move of theatres from the south bank to the north took a huge toll on Taylor' income. He is one of the few credited early authors of a palindrome: in 1614, he wrote:
..... "Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel".
.
He wrote a poem about Thomas {PARR}, a man who supposedly lived to the age of 152. Taylor was also the first poet to mention the deaths of William Shakespeare & Francis Beaumont in print, in his 1620 poem:
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http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/taylor1.html
.
.. THE PRAISE OF HEMP-SEED.. WITH
.. The Voyage of Mr. *{R|OGER} Bird* and the Writer hereof, in
.. a Boat of browne-Paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent.
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. Flies, fooles, hawkes, madmen ; any thing they saw :
. Th[E]ir very P[R]iuies th[E]y did ser[V]e with aw[E] :
. And they [D]id sacri[F]ice at sundry feasts
. Their children vnto diuels, stockes, stones and beasts.
.
[F.DEVERE] -8
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. That was the famous monumentall mark[E],
. To which we striu'd to bring our rotten barke :
. The onely ayme of ou[R] intents and scope,
. The anker that brought *ROGER* to the Hope.
. He dw[E]lleth now at the Hope on the Banck-side.
. Thus we from Saturday at e[V]ening Tide,
. Till Monday morne, did on the water bide,
. In rotten pap[E]r and in boysterous weather,
. Darke nights, through wet, and toyle[D] altogeth{E|R}.
. But being com{E} to Quinborou{G}h and aland,
. I t{O}oke my f[E]llow *{R|OGER} BY the hand*,
. And both of vs e{R}e we two steps did goe
. Gaue thankes to God that had preseru'd vs so :
. Confessing that his mercy vs protected
. When as we least *DE(s)ERV'D*, and lesse expected.
.
[E.DEVERE] -53
{ROGER} -12,-25 : Prob. of both in [E.DEVERE] paragraph ~ 1 in 5,250
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. . . . Sonnet 76 (1609)
.
. .WHy is my verse so barren of new pride?
. .So far from variation or quicke *CHANGE*?
. .Why with the time do I not glance aside
. {T} o new found methods, and to compounds *STRANGE*?
. {W} hy write I still all one, [EVER] the same,
. {A} nd keepe inuention in a *NOT{ED WEED}*,
. {T} hat {EVERy WORD} [D]oth almost fel {M[Y] NAME},
. {S} hewing th[E]ir birth, and whe[R]e {T}hey did proce[E]d?
. {O} k{N}ow sweet love I alw{A}ies writ[E] of you,
. A\n\ {D} (Y)ou an[D] love are s(T|I|L)l my argument:
. So (A)ll my best is dressing old words new,
. Spending againe what is already spent:
. For as the Sun is daily new and old,
. So is my loue still telling what is told,
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[T.WATSO\n\] Acrostic Prob. ~ 1 in 5500
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Meres: "As {I|TALY) had {DANTE}, Boccace, Petrarch, ...
so England had {T}homas {WATSO\n\}, Thomas Kid, ..."
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. . . . . . . <= 15 =>
.
. (N. O. T){E. D. W. E. E. D}(T) h. A. T {E. V
.. E. R. y. w. o. r. D}[D](O) t. h. a. l. m. o
.. S. T. F. E. L {M [Y](N) A. M. E} S. h. e. w
.. i. n. g. t. H [E] I. r. b. i. r. t. h. a. n
. (D) w. h. e [R] e {T} h. E. y. D. i. d. p. r
. (O) c. e [E. D] O. K {N} o. w. s. w. e. E. t
. (L) o [V. E] I. a. l. w {A} i. e. s. w. r. i
. (T)[E] o. f. y. o. u. A. n {D}(Y) o. u. a. n
. [D] l. O. v. E. a. r. e. s (T){I}(L) l. m. y
.. a. r. g. u. m. e. n. t: S. o (A) l. l. m. y
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{I.DANTE/R} skip -16 {found by James Ferris}
(DOLT) skip 15
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. Othello (Quarto 1, 1622) last scene
.
Emillia: Thou hast not halfe the power to doe me harme,
. . As I haue to be hurt: O gull, O (DOLT),
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. *STRANGE* Newes, 1592 by {T}homas {NASHE}
. Printed at London by *{I}ohn {DANTER}*, 1592.
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. Sonnet 76 : 4 X 19 (Metonic cycle)
.
............. <= 19 =>
.
.. E V E R {T} h e s a m e[A] n d .k(E|E) p e
.. i n u(E){N}(T)i o n i n a *N O .T(E)D .W(E)
.. E D*T h {A}(T)E V E R y w .o r (D|D]o .t h
.. a l m o {S}(T)F E L m[Y]n .a m <E>S h .e w
.. i n g t {H}[E]i r b i r t .h a .n d w .h e
. [R]e t h {E} y(D)i d p r o .c[E] d
.
{T.NASHE} 19 Prob. in Sonnet 76 ~ 1 in 450
[only *TNASHE* in Sonnets of any skip!]
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. THE STORY OF THE LEARNED PIG
. As related by himself to the Author
. of the following letter.
.
Dear Sir,
.
. I have the pleasure to be v[E]ry
. intimate with the man w[H]o shews
. th(E) learned pig at[S]adl(E)r’s We(L)ls.
. As (I) was o(N)e d[A]y sitting (I)n
. his parlour, a[N]d no perso(N) in
. the house bu[T] myself, I was alarmed by a gentle
. rap at the door, which I immediately opened, and
. discovered the learned pig erect on his hinder legs,
. and bowing very gracefully with his head and body.
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................... <= 22 =>
.
. I h a v e t h e. p. l e a s u r e t o b e v [E]
. r y i n t i m a. t. e w i t h t h e m a n w [H]
. o s h e w s t h (E) l e a r n e d p i g a t [S]
. a d l(E)r’s W e (L) l s.A s(I)w a s o(N)e d [A]
. y s i t t i n g (I) n h i s p a r l o u r,a [N]
. d n o p e r s o (N) i n t h e h o u s e b u [T]
. m y s e l f,
[T.NASHE] -22 : Prob. in first 2 sent. ~ 1 in 410
(NILE) -22,-5
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Alan Green's cyan right triangle marked by
{(e-1), sqrt(3), G(dot)} : https://tinyurl.com/yydnzwbn
.
. is a 30º/60º/90º triangle with almost the orientation of the
. 30º/60º/90º triangle pointing to the Westminster burial site.
.
.
. https://vimeo.com/181710012
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. https://tinyurl.com/yydnzwbn
If Shaksper's merry drinking buddies: Drayton & Jonson are
substituted for: Chaucer & Spenser as the hypotenuse a smaller
self similar 30º/60º/90º triangle points to an end of the tiled
section where something else may be easily buried (Beaumont?).
The smaller triangle is reduced in size by a factor of
[1+sqrt(3)] ~ "e" : probably the exact length ratio of
Alan Green's adjacent "blue" right triangle designated "e"
. https://tinyurl.com/yydnzwbn
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http://tinyurl.com/yafpyqk
The KJV (1611) frontispiece: at the top center, is:
a grotesque *St.THOMAS* with a *CARPENTER's SQUARE* in *SHADOW*
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One should note Doubting Thomas's attributes:
1) SPEAR (means of his Christian martyrdom),
2) (Masonic) carpenter's square (his profession, a builder)
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Top center of the 1611 KJV title page, http://tinyurl.com/yafpyqk
is a grotesque St.THOMAS with a CARPENTER's SQUARE in SHADOW
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The KJV (1611) Epistle Dedicatory
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. TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE
. (P)rince, (I)AMES by the grace of (G)od
. King of Great Britaine,{FRANC}e, and Irela[n]d,
. Defender [o]f the Faith, &[c].
. THE TRANSL[A]TORS OF THE [B]IBLE,
. wish Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through IESVS
. Christ our Lord.
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*MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* :
.
. . . . <= 10 =>
.
. {F R A N C.} E A N D I
.. R E L A[N]. D,D E F E
.. N D E R[O]. F T H E F
.. A I T H[C]. T h e T r
.. a n s l[A]. t o r s o
.. f t h e[B]. i b l e w
.. i s h G r.. a c e,M e
.. r c i e,a.. n d P e a
.. c e,t h r.. o u g h I
.. E S V S C.. h r i s t
.. o u r L o.. r d.
.
[BACON] -10 : Prob. ~ 1 in 750
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________ [MASTER MASONS]
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. . . <= 3 x 7 =>
.
. (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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. "UT ALIIS, ME CONSUME"
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<<The (U)nfortunate (T)raveller (1594) by Thomas Nashe
is a picaresque novel about Jack Wilton's adventures
through the European continent in which he finds himself
swept up in the currents of 16th-century history.>>
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https://www.hollowaypages.com/Shakespearemonument.htm
...... Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
<<The original monument to Shakespeare depicted him as a commodity dealer. Their claim is that the cushion on which Shakespeare is resting his arms was originally a wool sack, or some other such symbol of his merchant trade. The theory is that when the monument was restored in 1749, the present monument was substituted for the original. Somehow the figure of Shakespeare was altered (or replaced, depending upon the theorist), the "wool sack" became a cushion, and the pen and paper were wedged into Shakespeare's hands to add verisimilitude to the "hoax" that the Stratfordian Shakespeare was the author of the plays. Since no one complained about the errors in the Hollar engraving and its copies, their silence is proof that the engravings accurately depict the "original state" of the monument.>>
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1605 John Stow Monument in St. Andrew Undershaft Church
https://shakespeareauthorship.com/stow.html
Clopton Monument in Holy Trinity Church
https://shakespeareauthorship.com/clopton.html
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https://shakespeareauthorship.com/monspiel.html
<<Far more reckless are [Dugdale's] errors in the Carew monument. Here the lady lies on the outside, the husband inside. We note the angels standing upon the projecting cornices at the sides; the horizontal shape of all the three panels bearing inscriptions and of the frieze at the bottom -- powder-barrels to the left; and to the right, cannon pointing to the right --in allusion to Carew being Master of Ordnance:
Carew Monument in Holy Trinity Church
https://shakespeareauthorship.com/carew.html
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Seventeenth-century References
to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument by David Kathman
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
<<In 1634 a military company of Norwich was travelling through
the English countryside. One Lieutenant [Hammond] of the company
kept a diary of what he encountered during his travels, and
on or about September 9 he made the following entry:
In that dayes travell we came by Stratford upon Avon, where
in the church in that towne there are some monuments, which
church was built by Archbishop Stratford. Those worth
observing, and which wee tooke notice of, were these.
The monument of Sr. Hugh Clopton, who built tha(T) [S]trong
stone bridge of f(A|Y]re arches over that riv(E|R]. He was
Ld. Mayor of Londo(N). [A] (NEAT) monument of that f(A|M]ous
English poet, Mr. Wm. Shakespeere, who was borne heere.
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_______ <= 21 =>
.
......................... T. h e m o n u m e n t
.. o f S r H. u. g. h C l o. p t o n w h o b u i
.. l t t h a (T)[S] t r o n. g s t o n e b r i d
.. g e o f f (A)[Y] r e a r. c h e s o v e r t h
.. a t r i v (E)[R] H e w a. s L d.M a y o r o f
.. L o n d o (N)[A](N E A T) m o n u m e n t o f
.. t h a t f (A)[M] o u s E. n g l i s h p o e t
. {M r.W m.S. h. a. k e s p e e r e} w h o w a s
.. b o r n e h e e r e.
.
[MARY,S.] -21 : Prob. ~ 1 in 1035
(A NEAT) -21
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And one of an old gentleman, a batchelor, *Mr. COMBE*, upon whose
name the sayd poet did merrily fann up some witty and facetious
verses, which time would nott give us leave to sacke up.
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<<{O}r spunne out Riddles, or weav'd fifty Tomes
__{O}f *LOGOGRIPHES*, or curious Palindromes;
__{O}r pump'd for those hard trifles, Anagrams,
__{O}r Ecrosticks, or your finer flames
__{O}f EGGES , and Halbards, Cradles, and a Herse,
__[A] paire of Sizers, and *a COMBE in verse* ;
__[A]crosticks, and *TELLESTICKS*, or jumpe names,>> - B. Jonson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Blaise
. . . . Saint Blaise
Attributes: Wool comb, candles, tending a choking boy or animals
Patronage: Animals, builders, drapers, choking, veterinarians, throats, infants, Bradford, Maratea, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Campanário, Madeira, Rubiera, *stonecutters*, carvers, *wool workers*
<<Blaise (also known as Saint Blase), was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey). According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron *COMBS*, and beheaded. He is the patron saint of wool combers. In the Latin Church his feast falls on 3 February, in the Eastern Churches on 11 February.
The first reference we have to him, is in manuscripts of the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, a court Physician of the very end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century; there his aid is invoked in treating objects stuck in the throat.
Marco Polo reported the place where "Messer Saint Blaise obtained the glorious crown of martyrdom", Sebastea; the shrine near the citadel mount was mentioned by William of Rubruck in 1253.
From being a healer of bodily ailments, Saint Blaise became a physician of souls, then retired for a time to a cavern where he remained in prayer. As bishop of Sebastea, Blaise instructed his people as much by his example as by his words, and the great virtues and sanctity of the servant of God were attested by many miracles. From all parts, the people came flocking to him for the cure of bodily and spiritual ills. He is said to have healed animals (who came to the saint on their own for his assistance) and to have been assisted by animals.
In 316, the governor of Cappadocia and Lesser Armenia Agricolaus began a persecution by order of the Emperor Licinius and Saint Blaise was seized. After his interrogation and a severe scourging, he was hurried off to prison, and subsequently beheaded.
Blaise, who had studied philosophy in his youth, was a doctor in Sebaste in Armenia, the city of his birth, who exercised his art with miraculous ability, good-will, and piety. When the bishop of the city died, he was chosen to succeed him, with the acclamation of all the people. His holiness was manifest through many miracles: from all around, people came to him to find cures for their spirit and their body; even wild animals came in herds to receive his blessing. In 316, Agricola, the governor of Cappadocia and of Lesser Armenia, having arrived in Sebastia at the order of the emperor Licinius to kill the Christians, arrested the bishop. As he was being led to jail, a mother set her only son, choking to death of a fish-bone, at his feet, and the child was cured straight away. Regardless, the governor, unable to make Blaise renounce his faith, beat him with a stick, ripped his flesh with iron combs, and beheaded him.
According to the Acts, while Blaise was being taken into custody, a distraught mother, whose only child was choking on a fishbone, threw herself at his feet and implored his intercession. Touched at her grief, he offered up his prayers, and the child was cured. Consequently, Saint Blaise is invoked for protection against injuries and illnesses of the throat.
In many places on the day of his feast the blessing of St. Blaise is given: two candles (sometimes lit), blessed on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas), are held in a crossed position by a priest over the heads of the faithful or the people are touched on the throat with them. At the same time the following blessing is given: "Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness". Then the priest makes the sign of the cross over the faithful.
As the governor's hunters led Blaise back to Sebastea, on the way, the story goes, they met a poor woman whose pig had been seized by a wolf. At the command of Blaise, the wolf restored the pig to its owner, alive and unhurt. When he had reached the capital and was in prison awaiting execution, the old woman whose pig he had saved came to see him, bringing two fine wax candles to dispel the gloom of his dark cell. In the West there was no cult honoring St. Blaise prior to the eighth century.
Marcello Venusti's copy of the original version of Michaelangelo's The Last Judgment; detail showing an uncensored version of St. Catherine at the bottom left while above her, the figure of Saint Blaise holding Iron combs at the left had a different head position; St Catherine was repainted in a dress and St Blaise was repainted looking up at Jesus
One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Blaise became one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages. His cult became widespread in Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries and his legend is recounted in the 14th-century Legenda Aurea. Saint Blaise is the saint of the wild beast.
He is the patron of the Armenian Order of Saint Blaise. In Italy he is known as San Biagio. In Spanish-speaking countries, he is known as San Blas, and has lent his name to many places. Several places in Portugal and Brazil are also named after him, where he is called São. Many German churches, including the former Abbey of St. Blasius in the Black Forest and the church of Balve are dedicated to Saint Blaise/Blasius.
In Cornwall the town of St Blazey and the civil parish of St Blaise derive from his name. The council of Oxford in 1222 forbade all work on his festival. There is a church dedicated to Saint Blaise in the Devon hamlet of Haccombe, near Newton Abbot (Also one at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight and another at Milton near Abingdon in Oxfordshire). It is located next to Haccombe house which is the family home of the *CAREW* family, descendants of the vice admiral on board the Mary Rose at the time of her sinking. This church, unusually, retains the office of "archpriest".
There is a St. Blaise's Well In Bromley, Kent where the water was considered to have medicinal virtues. St Blaise is also associated with Stretford in Lancashire. A Blessing of the Throats ceremony is held on February 3 at St Etheldreda's Church in London. There is a 14th-century wall painting in All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, located by the market place, marking the significance of the wool trade in the economic expansion of the market town in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Saint Blaise is the patron saint of the city of Dubrovnik and formerly the protector of the independent Republic of Ragusa. At Dubrovnik his feast is celebrated yearly on 3 February, when relics of the saint are paraded in reliquaries. The festivities begin the previous day, Candlemas, when white doves are released. Chroniclers of Dubrovnik such as Rastic and Ranjina attribute his veneration there to a vision in 971 to warn the inhabitants of an impending attack by the Venetians, whose galleys had dropped anchor in Gruž and near Lokrum, ostensibly to resupply their water but furtively to spy out the city's defenses. St. Blaise (Blasius) revealed their pernicious plan to Stojko, a canon of St. Stephen's Cathedral. The Senate summoned Stojko, who told them in detail how St. Blaise had appeared before him as an old man with a long beard and a bishop's mitre and staff.
In England in the 18th and 19th centuries Blaise was adopted as mascot of woolworkers' pageants, particularly in Essex, Yorkshire, Wiltshire and Norwich. The popular enthusiasm for the saint is explained by the belief that Blaise had brought prosperity (as symbolised by the Woolsack) to England by teaching the English to comb wool. According to the tradition as recorded in printed broadsheets, Blaise came from Jersey, Channel Islands. Jersey was certainly a centre of export of woollen goods (as witnessed by the name jersey for the woollen textile).
In iconography, Blaise is represented holding two crossed candles in his hand (the Blessing of St. Blaise), or in a cave surrounded by wild beasts, as he was found by the hunters of the governor. He is often shown with the instruments of his martyrdom, steel combs. The similarity of these instruments of torture to wool combs led to his adoption as the patron saint of wool combers in particular, and the wool trade in general. He may also be depicted with crossed candles. Such crossed candles are used for the blessing of throats on his feast day, which falls on 3 February, the day after Candlemas on the General Roman Calendar. Blaise is traditionally believed to intercede in cases of throat illnesses, especially for fish-bones stuck in the throat.>>
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https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/sir-george-carew/
<<Sir George Carew was a prominent figure in Shakespeare's Stratford,
and owned New Place before it was purchased by Shakespeare himself.
Visitors to Nash’s House will recognise this portrait of Sir George Carew (1555-1629) which hung in the staircase there until recently. The portrait is now on display in the Reading Room at the Shakespeare Centre on Henley Street.
Carew was not a native of Stratford-upon-Avon. He was born into a well-known Devonshire family and, like Shakespeare, lived and worked outside the town. Carew was knighted in 1578, became Baron Carew of Clopton in 1605 and was created Earl of Totnes in 1625/6. He was a prominent figure in the courts of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles II and a close friend of Sir Walter Raleigh.
In 1580 Carew married Joyce Clopton. Through this match, he became part of one of the great Stratford families. Since the 13th Century the Cloptons had been landowners in the area. Clopton House, now converted into apartments, still stands on the outskirts of the town to the north. Sir Hugh Clopton built the original New Place in 1483 and the family owned the property until Joyce’s father, William Clopton III, sold it in 1563. Just over thirty years later William Shakespeare purchased the house. Because of his links to the town through marriage, Carew is buried in Holy Trinity Church.
Carew served as High Steward of Stratford in 1610, about thirteen years after Shakespeare had returned to the town and purchased New Place. It is likely that the two would have known of each other and would possibly even have met. Carew would almost certainly have known of Shakespeare the playwright and actor in London and Shakespeare the businessman in Stratford. Shakespeare, in turn, would have known of Carew as a member of the nobility and a local landowner. He may also have been aware of his campaigns in Ireland and his position at court.
Without direct evidence we can never know whether the two men ever met but it is interesting to contemplate the circumstances under which they may have known each other and what this can tell us about them and the world they lived in.
The 16th Century saw significant unrest and conflict in Ireland. The Tudor re-conquest of Ireland began after the Earl of Kildare’s failed rebellion against the English crown in the 1530s. Carew first went to Ireland in 1574 and retired from his post there in 1603. He had been appointed lord president of Munster in early 1600 following the Earl of Essex’s failure to put an end to the rebellion.
Carew’s attitude towards Ireland and the Irish was affected by the death of his brother, Peter, in a skirmish against Irish fighters. He told Sir Francis Walsingham that it would be "hard for any Englishman to dwell in this land, for there is no war amongst themselves but all upon us; nothing so hateful as the name and habit of an Englishman; no part of Ireland free from rebellion. The loss I have sustained by this wicked nation is too grievous to remember, if hope of revenge did not breed me comfort."
When Carew did take his revenge, by killing one of the men who was alleged to have been involved in Peter’s death, the authorities in England and Ireland were not pleased and he was sent back to London temporarily in 1586.
Carew’s attitude towards the Irish was probably not untypical. When Shakespeare makes reference to Ireland it is not painted in a flattering light. The Irish are seen as rebels and the wars that are fought there are costly. Shakespeare creates many Scottish and Welsh characters but only one Irish character. This is probably due to censorship at the time. The Irish wars caused a crisis and at some points it seemed that England might fail in its suppression of the country's violent resistance to English rule.
If you want to know more about Shakespeare and Ireland you can listen to the BBC podcast, Shakespeare’s Restless World, produced in conjunction with The British Museum.
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. Francis Bacon's Friends And Associates
. http://www.sirbacon.org/fbfriendsassociates.htm
. by Constance M. Pott
. Reprinted from Baconiana No. 30, April 1900
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<<Amongst others of the Secret Society were the Careys or Carews. Four
of this family were engaged in the Virginian enterprise. John, helped
with the Revels at Court, and supplied properties. Richard is described
as a writer chiefly on Topgraphy. He died in 1620. His brother George
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and is the reputed author of an account
of France and of the Court of Henri IV of France. This work, however,
was not published, or (we believe) heard of until 100 years after his
death, which occured in 1614. This *Sir George Carew* was, from early
youth to latest age, very intimate with Francis Bacon; we are therefore
fully prepared to learn that George and Thomas Carew were, Poets--that
Thomas was also a dramatist, and that he is said to have written the
Masque entitled, "Coelum Brittanicum," which was performed before the
Court at Whitehall in 1633, and greatly admired. In fact, all these
men were Bacon's "Masks," engaged in publishing his works.>>
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Clopton Manor, came to George Carew through
his marriage to the Clopton heiress.
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http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/GeorgeCarew(ETotnes).htm
George CAREW (1st E. Totnes)
Born: 29 May 1555
Acceeded: 7 Feb 1625/6
Died: 27 Mar 1629, The Savoy, England
Buried: 2 May 1629, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Father: George CAREW (Sir)
Mother: Anne HARVEY
Married: Joyce CLOPTON 31 May 1580, Stratford on Avon.
Children:
1. Peter CAREW
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<<Born on 29 May 1555. Second son of George Carew and Anne, daughter
of Sir Nicholas Harvey, who was first archdeacon of Totnes, in Devon,
next dean of Bristol and chief chanter in the cathedral of Salisbury,
afterwards dean of the king's chapel and *dean of Christ's Church* ,
Oxford, lastly dean of Exeter and Windsor.
.
George was educated, like the father, at Broadgates Hall (afterwards
Pembroke College), Oxford, where he stayed from 1564 to 1573, and was
created M.A. at a later date, 17 Sep 1589. From an early age he devoted
himself to military pursuits. In 1574 he entered the service of his 1st
cousin, Sir Peter Carew, in Ireland. In 1575 he served as a volunteer in
the army in Ireland under Sir Henry Sidney, and after filling the post
of captain of the garrison in Leighlin for a few months in 1576, in the
absence of his brother Peter, was appointed lieutenant-governor of the
county of Carlow and vice-constable of Leighlin Castle in 1576.
.
In 1578 he held a captaincy in the royal navy, and made a voyage in the
ship of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In 1579 and 1580 he was at the head first
of a regiment of Irish infantry and afterwards of a regiment of cavalry
in Ireland. He was made constable of Leighlin-bridge Castle in 1580, on
the death (in a skirmish, 25 Aug, with the Irish) of his brother Peter.
Shortly afterwards Carew killed with his own hand several Irishmen
suspected of slaying his brother, and was severely censured by the
home government for him impetuosity. The Queen, however, showed
much liking for him, and the Cecils were his friends. He became a
gentleman-pensioner to Queen Elizabeth in 1582; sheriff of Carlow
in 1583; and was knighted by his friend the lord deputy of Ireland,
Sir John Perrot, on 24 Feb 1585-1586.
.
He served (1588?92) as Master of the Ordnance to Queen Elizabeth.
.
He took part in the naval expeditions to Cádiz (May 1596) and
the Azores in 1597, when he was Member of Parliament for Queenborough.
In May 1598 was for a short time an envoy to France, when his
companion was Sir Robert Cecil.
.
He was appointed (27 Jan 1599/1600) lord president of Munster,
presumably recommended by his friend Sir Walter Raleigh. At the time
the whole of Ireland was convulsed by the great rebellion of Hugh
O?Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Essex's attempt to crush it failed miserably,
and Carew's relations with the Cecils did not make his advice congenial
to Essex. When Lord Mountjoy was nominated Essex's successor, the
powerful support that Carew lent Mountjoy chiefly enabled the latter
to suppress the revolt. At Kinsale he did especial service, and the
successful raids he made on neighboring castles effectually prevented
the Spaniards from landing in the country after their ejection.
Like all contemporary English officials in Ireland, he ruthlessly
drove his victory home, and the Irish peasants of Munster
were handled with his utmost vigour.
.
As soon as Ireland was pacified, Carew sought to return to England.
His health was failing, and the anxieties of his office were endless,
but while Elizabeth lived his request was overlooked. On Lord Mountjoy's
resignation of the lord-deputyship in May 1603, Carew was allowed to
retire, and Sir Henry Brouncker was promoted to the presidency of
Munster. James I on his accession treated him with marked attention.
Early in Oct 1603 he became Queen Anne's vice-chamberlain, and a few
days later (10 Oct) the receiver-general of her revenues. He was
Member of Parliament for Hastings in the Parliament which met
in 1604, and appointed councillor to the Queen on 9 Aug 1604.
.
On 4 Jun 1605 following he was created Baron Carew of Clopton House,
near Stratford-on-Avon, the property of his wife Joyce, daughter of
John Clopton, whom he married in 1580. On 26 Jun 1608 he was
nominated master of ordnance, and held the post till 5 May 1617.
.
He was keeper of *Nonsuch House and Park* in 1609, of which he was
reappointed keeper for life 22 May 1619, councillor of the colony
of Virginia (23 May 1609), Governor of Guernsey (Feb 1609/10),
commissioner to reform the army and revenue of Ireland (1611),
a privy councillor (19 Jul 1616).
.
Carew visited Ireland in 1610 to report on the condition of the
country, with a view to resettlement of Ulster, and described Ireland
as improving rapidly and recovering from the disasters of the previous
century. In 1618 he pleaded with James I in behalf of Sir Walter
Raleigh, with whom he had lived for more than thirty years on
terms of great intimacy, and Lady Carew proved a kind friend
to Raleigh's family after the execution.
.
In 1621 Carew received, jointly with the Duke of Buckingham and
the Viscount Cranfield, a monopoly for the manufacture of gunpowder.
At the funeral of James I in 1625 he was attacked with Palsy, which
nearly proved fatal. But he recovered sufficiently to receive a few
marks of favour from Charles I, to whose friend Buckingham he had
attached himself. Member of the important council of war to consider
the question of recovering the Palatinate (21 Apr 1624), and
treasurer-general to Queen Henrietta Maria (1626).
.
Carew was created Earl of Totnes on 5 Feb 1625/6. In the following
month the House of Commons, resenting the action of the council of war
in levying money for the support of Mansfield's disastrous expedition,
threatened to examine each of its members individually. Totnes expressed
his readiness to undergo the indignity and even to suffer imprisonment
in order to shelter the King, who was aimed at by the commons, but
Charles proudly rejected Totnes's offer and prohibited any of the
council from acceding to the commons' orders.
.
The Earl died on 27 Mar 1629 at his house in the Savoy, London, and
was buried in the church of Stratford-on-Avon, near Clopton House.
An elaborate monument was erected above his grave by his widow,
with a long inscription detailing his military successes (Dugdale,
Warwickshire, 1730, ii. 686-7). He left no children. Sir George had
a son, named Peter Carew, who died young during his father's life.
.
Carew had antiquarian tastes, and was the friend of Camden,
*Sir Robert Cotton* , and Sir Thomas Bodley. Camden thanked Carew
in his 'Britannia' for the aid he had given him in Irish matters
(ed. Gibson, 1772, ii. 338). He collected material on the history of
Ireland, used later by his secretary, Sir Thomas Stafford, to prepare
the important 'Pacata Hibernia; or, An Historie of the Late Warres of
Ireland' (1633). Sir Thomas Stafford was probably, though the evidence
is incomplete, a natural son of the Earl of Totnes. Stafford served
under Carew, when president of Munster, as captain in the wars in
Ireland during Elizabeth's reign. When Carew died in 1629, it was
intended that Stafford should be buried in the same tomb at
Stratford-on-Avon, and an inscription (printed in Dugdale's
Warwickshire, ii. 686) was engraved on it describing Stafford's
career, leaving the date of death to be filled in. That was
never done, and it is uncertain when Stafford died (he was
alive in 1639) and whether he was buried in Carew's tomb.
.
Carew by his will, dated 30 Nov 1625 and proved on 29 May 1629,
bequeathed to Stafford his vast collection of manuscripts relating
to Ireland, the greater part of which, consisting of 39 volumes.
He spent much of his leisure in constructing pedigrees of Irish
families, many of which in his own hand are still extant. From
Stafford the manuscripts and books passed to Archbishop Laud.
Sir George names in his will his great nephew, Peter Apsley.
.
From Burke's Extinct (London, Harrison, 1883) Sir George Carew, born in
1555, married Anne, daughter of Nicholas Harvey. He was Vice Chamberlain
to the Queen, Lieutenant General of the Ordnance, Lord President of the
Province of Munster, in Ireland, created Baron Carew of Clopton, co.
Warwick, on 4 May 1605; and, in the first year of Charles I, on
7 Feb 1625, he was created Earl of Totnes, co. Devon. A great lover
of historical antiquities, he collected charters and
wrote an historical account of his time in Ireland.>>
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<<George Carew (died c.1613) was an English diplomat and historian,
the second son of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony. He was educated at
Oxford and entered the Inns of Court before travelling abroad. At the
recommendation of Queen Elizabeth I, who conferred on him the honour
of a knighthood, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton.
Later, having been promoted to a Mastership in Chancery,
he was sent as ambassador to the King of Poland.
.
During the reign of James I he was employed in negotiations with
Scotland and for several years was ambassador to the court of France.
On his return he wrote a Relation of the State of France, written in
the classical style of the Elizabethan age and featuring sketches of
the leading persons at the court of Henry IV. It appears as an
appendix to Dr. Birch's Historical View of the Negotiations between
the Courts of England, France and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617.
.
Much of the information regarding Poland contained in
De Thou's History of His Own Times was furnished by Carew.
.
Carew is also believed to have written, or been responsible for
the compilation of, A Relation of the State of Polonia (1598).>>
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Sir George CAREW
Born: 1565
Died: 13 Nov 1612
Buried: St. Margaret's Church, London, England
Father: Thomas CAREW of Antony
Mother: Elizabeth EDGECOMBE
Married: Thomasine GODOLPHIN 7 Jul 1588
.
Children:
1. Richard CAREW (d. at 17 years of age)
2. Francis CAREW (d. 1628)
3. Anne CAREW
4. Mary CAREW
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<<Lawyer and diplomatist, was the second son of Thomas Carew of Antony,
and the younger brother of Richard Carew, the historian of Cornwall.
'In his younger years,' says his brother, 'he gathered such fruit as
the university, the inns of court, and foreign travel could yield him'.
He married in 1588 to Thomazine, daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin, by
Margaret Killigrew. After his return from abroad he was called to the
bar, obtaining the post of secretary to Lord Chancellor Hatton, and on
Hatton's decease held the same office, 'by special recommendation from
Queen Elizabeth', under Sir John Puckering and Sir Thomas Egerton
keepers of the great seal. Through the same royal favour Carew was made
a prothonotary in chancery, and Queen Elizabeth conferred upon him the
honour of knighthood, and in 1598 was dispatched on an embassy to
Brunswick, Sweden, Poland, and Danzig. While on this mission, 'through
unexpected accidents, he underwent extraordinary perils, but God freed
him from them, and he performed his duty in acceptable manner'.
.
On 21 Dec 1599 he was appointed a master in chancery
and held that preferment until his death in 1612.
.
As the younger son of an influential Cornish family and a leading
courtier he had little difficulty in obtaining a seat in parliament for
one of the numerous boroughs in Cornwall. He sat for St. Germans in
1584, for Saltash in 1586, 1588, 1593, and for St. Germans again in
1597, 1601, and 1604. The honour of knighthood was conferred upon him at
Whitehall 23 Jul 1603, on the eve of the coronation of James I, and in
the following year he was nominated to a place in the commission to
arrange the affairs of the union of the two countries of England and
Scotland.
.
At the close of 1605 Carew was sent as Ambassador to the court of
France, where he remained until Jul 1609, when the French ministers, who
regarded him as a friend to the Spanish interests, were not displeased
at his return to England. After considerable competition from other
seekers after office he secured in Jun 1612 the high and lucrative place
of master of the court of wards, which was vacant by the death of Robert
Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. The reason for this great promotion was
assigned by some to his wife's influence with the Queen, by others to
the favour of Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester (after Earl of Somerset),
and on his death he was currently reported to have paid dear for the
place. Among the Latin epigrams of John Owen is one (bk. vi. No. 20) to
the effect that while the King committed to Carew the care of the wards,
he showed himself to have a care for Carew's merits. In Aug 1612 he
was a member of the commission for raising money for our soldiers
in Denmark, and with that appointment his official life was over.
.
On Friday, 13 Nov 1612, he died, 'in reasonable case, worth
10,000 pounds', and was buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster.
.
Francis, his elder son was created K.B. at the coronation of King
Charles I and attended the Earl of Denbigh in the expedition for the
relief of Rochelle, where he acquired great reputation by his courage
and conduct. He died in the Isle of Wight, June 4, 1628, at the age of
twenty-seven; Richard, the younger son, attained only his seventeenth
year; Anne, the eldest daughter was wife of one Rawlin; Mary Carew
married Sir Richard Osborne; the other daughter died single.'>>
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Ron Heisler - The Forgotten English Roots of Rosicrucianism
Article originally published in The Hermetic Journal, 1992.
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<<In the 1590s [Sir Thomas Egerton] was a vigorous promoter
of the career of Sir Francis Bacon. John Donne the poet became
his secretary. Another of his secretaries, *GEORGE CAREW* , was
presented with a copy of Arcana arcanissima by Michael Maier and
probably provided hospitality to Maier whilst serving as ambassador
in France. In 1610, when Egerton's son James was killed in a duel,
*Robert FLUDD* and his servant were interrogated by a law officer
for the light they could throw on the affair. Presumably *FLUDD*
had been in attendance on the dying man. Egerton's third wife, the
shrewish Alice, was the widow of Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby,
whom Professor Honigmann argues with some trenchancy had been an
early patron of the Bard. A fierce Protestant, if not quite a
Puritan, Egerton originally a good friend to the Earl of Essex
before his fall from grace was to bind himself strongly in
alliance with William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and the
Earl of Southampton, both famous patrons of Shakespeare.>>
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<<The first salvage attempts were made within months, on the coast of
County Clare by Sir George Carew, who complained at the expense "of
sustaining the divers with copious draughts of usequebaugh [whiskey]".
.
Sorley Boy MacDonnell recovered 3 brass cannon and
2 chests of treasure from the wreck of the Girona.
.
In 1797 a quantity of lead and some brass guns were raised from
the wreck of an unknown Armada ship at Mullaghderg in County Donegal.
Two miles further south, in 1853, an anchor was recovered
from another unknown Armada wreck.
.
The Grainuaile Suite (1985), a classical treatment of the life of the
Irish sea-queen Grace O'Malley by Irish composer Shaun Davey, contains
a lament on the Spanish landings in Ireland, sung by Rita Connolly.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle
Thomas the Apostle
Born 1st century AD Galilee
Died 21 December 72 Mylapore, India
Honored in: Anglican Communion
Feast: 21 December
Attributes: The Twin, placing his finger in the side of Christ,
*SPEAR* (means of martyrdom), square (his profession, a builder)
Patronage: Architects, Builders, India, and others.
<<Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus (meaning
"Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known
for disbelieving Jesus' resurrection when first told of it, then
proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus in John 20:28.
He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside the Roman Empire
to preach the Gospel. He is also believed to have crossed
the largest area, which includes the Parthian Empire & India.
The Nag Hammadi copy of the Gospel of Thomas begins: "These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos, Judas Thomas, recorded." Early Syrian traditions also relate the apostle's full name as Judas Thomas. Some have seen in the Acts of Thomas (written in east Syria in the early 3rd century, or perhaps as early as the first half of the 2nd century) an identification of Saint Thomas with the apostle Judas, Son of James, better known in English as Jude. However, the first sentence of the Acts follows the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in distinguishing the apostle Thomas and the apostle Judas son of James. In the Book of Thomas the Contender he is alleged to be a twin to Jesus: "Now, since it has been said that you are my twin and true companion, examine yourself…">>
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Art Neuendorffer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Beeston
<<Christopher Beeston (c. 1579 – c. 15 Oct. 1638) was a successful actor and a powerful theatrical impresario in early 17th century London. He was associated with a number of playwrights, particularly Thomas Heywood.
Little is known of Beeston's early life. He has not so far been decisively connected with the William Beeston mentioned by Thomas Nashe in *STRANGE* News. Beeston has been conjecturally associated with the "Kit" in the surviving plot of Richard Tarlton's The Seven Deadly Sins. Augustine Phillips bequeathed "his servant" Beeston thirty shillings in his 1605 last will and testament, indicating that Beeston had been that actor's apprentice with the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Beeston played in the company's 1598 production of Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour. So it appears that Beeston started as a boy player and later graduated to adult roles.
In 1602 a woman named Margaret White, the widow of a cloth worker, accused Beeston of raping her on Midsummer night and leaving her pregnant. Beeston denied the charge, in a riotous hearing attended by his fellow actors who "much abused the place". The hearing recommended that Beeston be prosecuted, but no records of a trial survive.
Beeston left the Lord Chamberlain's Men and moved on to Worcester's Men in August 1602. He stayed with Worcester's Men through its transformation into Queen Anne's Men, eventually becoming the troupe's manager. In this capacity, he worked closely with Thomas Heywood, producing most of that prolific writer's plays at the Red Bull Theatre. Beeston was sued twice, in 1619 and 1623, in business disputes. The documentary records reveal that Beeston had treated company funds as his own, charging the company for properties he had purchased with its money. The company, already in difficult straits, limped along until the death of Queen Anne in 1619. For a brief time, the remnants of the company toured the countryside, but they soon disappeared.
Beeston, meantime, had established the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane. Beeston's interest in this theatre dates to 1616, when he bought a cockfight ring, possibly employing Inigo Jones to convert it to a theatre. The new establishment, still called the Cockpit Theatre after its former function, opened in 1616. On Shrove Tuesday 1617, a mob of apprentices ransacked and torched the theatre; patrons of the Red Bull, they appear to have been angry that their favourite plays had been moved to the more-exclusive (and expensive) indoor theatre. When Beeston rebuilt the theatre, he named it the Phoenix, but it was still frequently called the Cockpit. Beeston regularly bribed Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, and once bought the Master's wife a pair of gloves worth "at least 20 shillings." From 1619 until his death in 1638, Beeston ran both theatres with a succession of companies, ranging from Prince Charles' Men and Queen Henrietta's Men to the last group of child actors, commonly called Beeston's Boys. The Cockpit offered credible competition to the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre for the wealthier set of playgoers; Beeston employed fashionable playwrights such as John Ford and James Shirley to attract these audiences. After the temporary demise and ultimate eclipse of the Fortune Theatre in 1621, the Red Bull was the main attraction in Middlesex for citizens and apprentices. Beeston died in 1638, leaving his theatrical interests in the hands of his son William Beeston.>>
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https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/dedication-to-strange-news/
. . The Dedication to *STRANGE* News (1592)
Transcribed With Commentary by Charles Wisner Barrell.
Reprinted from the October 1944 issue of the Shakespeare Fellowship Quarterly
. To the most copious Carminist of our time, and famous
. persecutor of Priscian his verie friend Master Apis Lapis
This classically derived allegorical pun appears to have stumped every editor of *STRANGE* News up to the present day. Grosart and Prof. McKerrow both read it as “Master Beestone” and conclude that The Epistle Dedicatorie is addressed to a certain shadowy William Beeston, a person unaccounted for beyond the uncorroborated statement that he was a brother of Christopher Beeston, an actor in the company of Lord *STRANGE* who later is styled “servant or valet to the Shakespearean player, Augustine Phillips.”
John Payne Collier seems to be responsible for the statement that William Beeston was “a man of some authority on matters of poetry.”
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https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/john-gay
<<John Gay, the celebrated poet and dramatist, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on 23rd December 1732, in the central part of the area near Thomas {PARR}'s grave. The funeral was a lavish affair and Alexander Pope was one of the pall bearers. A monument was erected for him against the south wall and the monument to Samuel Butler was moved to accommodate it. But in the 1930s this, and the adjoining monument to Nicholas Rowe, was moved to the Abbey's triforium as *DOUBTING THOMAS* wall paintings were discovered behind them during cleaning. The marble monument consists of a high relief portrait of the poet on a roundel against a pyramid with masks, a trumpet and pan-pipes above. At the top is a cartouche showing his coat of arms: "or, on a fess sable between three escallops azure, five lozenges argent". The sculptor was John Michael Rysbrack. Just below the portrait bust is an inscription composed by the poet himself:
________ Life is a jest; and all things show it,
________ I thought so once; but now I know it. >>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle
<<John 20:24–29 tells how *DOUBTING THOMAS* was skeptical at first when he *HEARD* that Jesus had risen from the dead and appeared to the other apostles, saying, "Except I shall *SEE* on his hands the print of the nails... I will not believe."[20:25] Jesus then said, "Thomas, because thou hast *SEEN* me, thou hast believed: blessed [are] they that have not *SEEN*, and [yet] have believed.">>
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http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/anagrams/text.html
____ *EDOUARUS VEIERUS*
_____ per anagramma
____ *AURE SURDUS VIDEO*
.
_______ *EDWARD VERE*
______ by an anagram
____ *DEAFE IN MY (EARE), I SEE*>>
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John Taylor was born in the parish of St. Ewen's, near South Gate, Gloucester on 24 August 1578. In the early 1590's, after his failed attempt at grammar school he moved from his home to South London, most likely Southwark, to begin an apprenticeship as a waterman. Taylor discusses the watermen's disputes with the theatre companies. The move of theatres from the south bank to the north took a huge toll on Taylor' income. He is one of the few credited early authors of a palindrome: in 1614, he wrote:
..... "Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel".
.
He wrote a poem about Thomas {PARR}, a man who supposedly lived to the age of 152. Taylor was also the first poet to mention the deaths of William Shakespeare & Francis Beaumont in print, in his 1620 poem:
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http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/taylor1.html
.
.. THE PRAISE OF HEMP-SEED.. WITH
.. The Voyage of Mr. *{R|OGER} Bird* and the Writer hereof, in
.. a Boat of browne-Paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent.
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. Flies, fooles, hawkes, madmen ; any thing they saw :
. Th[E]ir very P[R]iuies th[E]y did ser[V]e with aw[E] :
. And they [D]id sacri[F]ice at sundry feasts
. Their children vnto diuels, stockes, stones and beasts.
.
[F.DEVERE] -8
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. That was the famous monumentall mark[E],
. To which we striu'd to bring our rotten barke :
. The onely ayme of ou[R] intents and scope,
. The anker that brought *ROGER* to the Hope.
. He dw[E]lleth now at the Hope on the Banck-side.
. Thus we from Saturday at e[V]ening Tide,
. Till Monday morne, did on the water bide,
. In rotten pap[E]r and in boysterous weather,
. Darke nights, through wet, and toyle[D] altogeth{E|R}.
. But being com{E} to Quinborou{G}h and aland,
. I t{O}oke my f[E]llow *{R|OGER} BY the hand*,
. And both of vs e{R}e we two steps did goe
. Gaue thankes to God that had preseru'd vs so :
. Confessing that his mercy vs protected
. When as we least *DE(s)ERV'D*, and lesse expected.
.
[E.DEVERE] -53
{ROGER} -12,-25 : Prob. of both in [E.DEVERE] paragraph ~ 1 in 5,250
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. . . . Sonnet 76 (1609)
.
. .WHy is my verse so barren of new pride?
. .So far from variation or quicke *CHANGE*?
. .Why with the time do I not glance aside
. {T} o new found methods, and to compounds *STRANGE*?
. {W} hy write I still all one, [EVER] the same,
. {A} nd keepe inuention in a *NOT{ED WEED}*,
. {T} hat {EVERy WORD} [D]oth almost fel {M[Y] NAME},
. {S} hewing th[E]ir birth, and whe[R]e {T}hey did proce[E]d?
. {O} k{N}ow sweet love I alw{A}ies writ[E] of you,
. A\n\ {D} (Y)ou an[D] love are s(T|I|L)l my argument:
. So (A)ll my best is dressing old words new,
. Spending againe what is already spent:
. For as the Sun is daily new and old,
. So is my loue still telling what is told,
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[T.WATSO\n\] Acrostic Prob. ~ 1 in 5500
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Meres: "As {I|TALY) had {DANTE}, Boccace, Petrarch, ...
so England had {T}homas {WATSO\n\}, Thomas Kid, ..."
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. . . . . . . <= 15 =>
.
. (N. O. T){E. D. W. E. E. D}(T) h. A. T {E. V
.. E. R. y. w. o. r. D}[D](O) t. h. a. l. m. o
.. S. T. F. E. L {M [Y](N) A. M. E} S. h. e. w
.. i. n. g. t. H [E] I. r. b. i. r. t. h. a. n
. (D) w. h. e [R] e {T} h. E. y. D. i. d. p. r
. (O) c. e [E. D] O. K {N} o. w. s. w. e. E. t
. (L) o [V. E] I. a. l. w {A} i. e. s. w. r. i
. (T)[E] o. f. y. o. u. A. n {D}(Y) o. u. a. n
. [D] l. O. v. E. a. r. e. s (T){I}(L) l. m. y
.. a. r. g. u. m. e. n. t: S. o (A) l. l. m. y
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{I.DANTE/R} skip -16 {found by James Ferris}
(DOLT) skip 15
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. Othello (Quarto 1, 1622) last scene
.
Emillia: Thou hast not halfe the power to doe me harme,
. . As I haue to be hurt: O gull, O (DOLT),
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. *STRANGE* Newes, 1592 by {T}homas {NASHE}
. Printed at London by *{I}ohn {DANTER}*, 1592.
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. Sonnet 76 : 4 X 19 (Metonic cycle)
.
............. <= 19 =>
.
.. E V E R {T} h e s a m e[A] n d .k(E|E) p e
.. i n u(E){N}(T)i o n i n a *N O .T(E)D .W(E)
.. E D*T h {A}(T)E V E R y w .o r (D|D]o .t h
.. a l m o {S}(T)F E L m[Y]n .a m <E>S h .e w
.. i n g t {H}[E]i r b i r t .h a .n d w .h e
. [R]e t h {E} y(D)i d p r o .c[E] d
.
{T.NASHE} 19 Prob. in Sonnet 76 ~ 1 in 450
[only *TNASHE* in Sonnets of any skip!]
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. THE STORY OF THE LEARNED PIG
. As related by himself to the Author
. of the following letter.
.
Dear Sir,
.
. I have the pleasure to be v[E]ry
. intimate with the man w[H]o shews
. th(E) learned pig at[S]adl(E)r’s We(L)ls.
. As (I) was o(N)e d[A]y sitting (I)n
. his parlour, a[N]d no perso(N) in
. the house bu[T] myself, I was alarmed by a gentle
. rap at the door, which I immediately opened, and
. discovered the learned pig erect on his hinder legs,
. and bowing very gracefully with his head and body.
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................... <= 22 =>
.
. I h a v e t h e. p. l e a s u r e t o b e v [E]
. r y i n t i m a. t. e w i t h t h e m a n w [H]
. o s h e w s t h (E) l e a r n e d p i g a t [S]
. a d l(E)r’s W e (L) l s.A s(I)w a s o(N)e d [A]
. y s i t t i n g (I) n h i s p a r l o u r,a [N]
. d n o p e r s o (N) i n t h e h o u s e b u [T]
. m y s e l f,
[T.NASHE] -22 : Prob. in first 2 sent. ~ 1 in 410
(NILE) -22,-5
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Alan Green's cyan right triangle marked by
{(e-1), sqrt(3), G(dot)} : https://tinyurl.com/yydnzwbn
.
. is a 30º/60º/90º triangle with almost the orientation of the
. 30º/60º/90º triangle pointing to the Westminster burial site.
.
.
. https://vimeo.com/181710012
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. https://tinyurl.com/yydnzwbn
If Shaksper's merry drinking buddies: Drayton & Jonson are
substituted for: Chaucer & Spenser as the hypotenuse a smaller
self similar 30º/60º/90º triangle points to an end of the tiled
section where something else may be easily buried (Beaumont?).
The smaller triangle is reduced in size by a factor of
[1+sqrt(3)] ~ "e" : probably the exact length ratio of
Alan Green's adjacent "blue" right triangle designated "e"
. https://tinyurl.com/yydnzwbn
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http://tinyurl.com/yafpyqk
The KJV (1611) frontispiece: at the top center, is:
a grotesque *St.THOMAS* with a *CARPENTER's SQUARE* in *SHADOW*
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One should note Doubting Thomas's attributes:
1) SPEAR (means of his Christian martyrdom),
2) (Masonic) carpenter's square (his profession, a builder)
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Top center of the 1611 KJV title page, http://tinyurl.com/yafpyqk
is a grotesque St.THOMAS with a CARPENTER's SQUARE in SHADOW
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The KJV (1611) Epistle Dedicatory
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. TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE
. (P)rince, (I)AMES by the grace of (G)od
. King of Great Britaine,{FRANC}e, and Irela[n]d,
. Defender [o]f the Faith, &[c].
. THE TRANSL[A]TORS OF THE [B]IBLE,
. wish Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through IESVS
. Christ our Lord.
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*MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* :
.
. . . . <= 10 =>
.
. {F R A N C.} E A N D I
.. R E L A[N]. D,D E F E
.. N D E R[O]. F T H E F
.. A I T H[C]. T h e T r
.. a n s l[A]. t o r s o
.. f t h e[B]. i b l e w
.. i s h G r.. a c e,M e
.. r c i e,a.. n d P e a
.. c e,t h r.. o u g h I
.. E S V S C.. h r i s t
.. o u r L o.. r d.
.
[BACON] -10 : Prob. ~ 1 in 750
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________ [MASTER MASONS]
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. . . <= 3 x 7 =>
.
. (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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. "UT ALIIS, ME CONSUME"
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<<The (U)nfortunate (T)raveller (1594) by Thomas Nashe
is a picaresque novel about Jack Wilton's adventures
through the European continent in which he finds himself
swept up in the currents of 16th-century history.>>
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https://www.hollowaypages.com/Shakespearemonument.htm
...... Shakespeare's Stratford Monument
<<The original monument to Shakespeare depicted him as a commodity dealer. Their claim is that the cushion on which Shakespeare is resting his arms was originally a wool sack, or some other such symbol of his merchant trade. The theory is that when the monument was restored in 1749, the present monument was substituted for the original. Somehow the figure of Shakespeare was altered (or replaced, depending upon the theorist), the "wool sack" became a cushion, and the pen and paper were wedged into Shakespeare's hands to add verisimilitude to the "hoax" that the Stratfordian Shakespeare was the author of the plays. Since no one complained about the errors in the Hollar engraving and its copies, their silence is proof that the engravings accurately depict the "original state" of the monument.>>
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1605 John Stow Monument in St. Andrew Undershaft Church
https://shakespeareauthorship.com/stow.html
Clopton Monument in Holy Trinity Church
https://shakespeareauthorship.com/clopton.html
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https://shakespeareauthorship.com/monspiel.html
<<Far more reckless are [Dugdale's] errors in the Carew monument. Here the lady lies on the outside, the husband inside. We note the angels standing upon the projecting cornices at the sides; the horizontal shape of all the three panels bearing inscriptions and of the frieze at the bottom -- powder-barrels to the left; and to the right, cannon pointing to the right --in allusion to Carew being Master of Ordnance:
Carew Monument in Holy Trinity Church
https://shakespeareauthorship.com/carew.html
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Seventeenth-century References
to Shakespeare's Stratford Monument by David Kathman
http://shakespeareauthorship.com/monrefs.html
<<In 1634 a military company of Norwich was travelling through
the English countryside. One Lieutenant [Hammond] of the company
kept a diary of what he encountered during his travels, and
on or about September 9 he made the following entry:
In that dayes travell we came by Stratford upon Avon, where
in the church in that towne there are some monuments, which
church was built by Archbishop Stratford. Those worth
observing, and which wee tooke notice of, were these.
The monument of Sr. Hugh Clopton, who built tha(T) [S]trong
stone bridge of f(A|Y]re arches over that riv(E|R]. He was
Ld. Mayor of Londo(N). [A] (NEAT) monument of that f(A|M]ous
English poet, Mr. Wm. Shakespeere, who was borne heere.
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_______ <= 21 =>
.
......................... T. h e m o n u m e n t
.. o f S r H. u. g. h C l o. p t o n w h o b u i
.. l t t h a (T)[S] t r o n. g s t o n e b r i d
.. g e o f f (A)[Y] r e a r. c h e s o v e r t h
.. a t r i v (E)[R] H e w a. s L d.M a y o r o f
.. L o n d o (N)[A](N E A T) m o n u m e n t o f
.. t h a t f (A)[M] o u s E. n g l i s h p o e t
. {M r.W m.S. h. a. k e s p e e r e} w h o w a s
.. b o r n e h e e r e.
.
[MARY,S.] -21 : Prob. ~ 1 in 1035
(A NEAT) -21
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And one of an old gentleman, a batchelor, *Mr. COMBE*, upon whose
name the sayd poet did merrily fann up some witty and facetious
verses, which time would nott give us leave to sacke up.
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<<{O}r spunne out Riddles, or weav'd fifty Tomes
__{O}f *LOGOGRIPHES*, or curious Palindromes;
__{O}r pump'd for those hard trifles, Anagrams,
__{O}r Ecrosticks, or your finer flames
__{O}f EGGES , and Halbards, Cradles, and a Herse,
__[A] paire of Sizers, and *a COMBE in verse* ;
__[A]crosticks, and *TELLESTICKS*, or jumpe names,>> - B. Jonson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Blaise
. . . . Saint Blaise
Attributes: Wool comb, candles, tending a choking boy or animals
Patronage: Animals, builders, drapers, choking, veterinarians, throats, infants, Bradford, Maratea, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, Campanário, Madeira, Rubiera, *stonecutters*, carvers, *wool workers*
<<Blaise (also known as Saint Blase), was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea in historical Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey). According to the Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron *COMBS*, and beheaded. He is the patron saint of wool combers. In the Latin Church his feast falls on 3 February, in the Eastern Churches on 11 February.
The first reference we have to him, is in manuscripts of the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, a court Physician of the very end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century; there his aid is invoked in treating objects stuck in the throat.
Marco Polo reported the place where "Messer Saint Blaise obtained the glorious crown of martyrdom", Sebastea; the shrine near the citadel mount was mentioned by William of Rubruck in 1253.
From being a healer of bodily ailments, Saint Blaise became a physician of souls, then retired for a time to a cavern where he remained in prayer. As bishop of Sebastea, Blaise instructed his people as much by his example as by his words, and the great virtues and sanctity of the servant of God were attested by many miracles. From all parts, the people came flocking to him for the cure of bodily and spiritual ills. He is said to have healed animals (who came to the saint on their own for his assistance) and to have been assisted by animals.
In 316, the governor of Cappadocia and Lesser Armenia Agricolaus began a persecution by order of the Emperor Licinius and Saint Blaise was seized. After his interrogation and a severe scourging, he was hurried off to prison, and subsequently beheaded.
Blaise, who had studied philosophy in his youth, was a doctor in Sebaste in Armenia, the city of his birth, who exercised his art with miraculous ability, good-will, and piety. When the bishop of the city died, he was chosen to succeed him, with the acclamation of all the people. His holiness was manifest through many miracles: from all around, people came to him to find cures for their spirit and their body; even wild animals came in herds to receive his blessing. In 316, Agricola, the governor of Cappadocia and of Lesser Armenia, having arrived in Sebastia at the order of the emperor Licinius to kill the Christians, arrested the bishop. As he was being led to jail, a mother set her only son, choking to death of a fish-bone, at his feet, and the child was cured straight away. Regardless, the governor, unable to make Blaise renounce his faith, beat him with a stick, ripped his flesh with iron combs, and beheaded him.
According to the Acts, while Blaise was being taken into custody, a distraught mother, whose only child was choking on a fishbone, threw herself at his feet and implored his intercession. Touched at her grief, he offered up his prayers, and the child was cured. Consequently, Saint Blaise is invoked for protection against injuries and illnesses of the throat.
In many places on the day of his feast the blessing of St. Blaise is given: two candles (sometimes lit), blessed on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas), are held in a crossed position by a priest over the heads of the faithful or the people are touched on the throat with them. At the same time the following blessing is given: "Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness". Then the priest makes the sign of the cross over the faithful.
As the governor's hunters led Blaise back to Sebastea, on the way, the story goes, they met a poor woman whose pig had been seized by a wolf. At the command of Blaise, the wolf restored the pig to its owner, alive and unhurt. When he had reached the capital and was in prison awaiting execution, the old woman whose pig he had saved came to see him, bringing two fine wax candles to dispel the gloom of his dark cell. In the West there was no cult honoring St. Blaise prior to the eighth century.
Marcello Venusti's copy of the original version of Michaelangelo's The Last Judgment; detail showing an uncensored version of St. Catherine at the bottom left while above her, the figure of Saint Blaise holding Iron combs at the left had a different head position; St Catherine was repainted in a dress and St Blaise was repainted looking up at Jesus
One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Blaise became one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages. His cult became widespread in Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries and his legend is recounted in the 14th-century Legenda Aurea. Saint Blaise is the saint of the wild beast.
He is the patron of the Armenian Order of Saint Blaise. In Italy he is known as San Biagio. In Spanish-speaking countries, he is known as San Blas, and has lent his name to many places. Several places in Portugal and Brazil are also named after him, where he is called São. Many German churches, including the former Abbey of St. Blasius in the Black Forest and the church of Balve are dedicated to Saint Blaise/Blasius.
In Cornwall the town of St Blazey and the civil parish of St Blaise derive from his name. The council of Oxford in 1222 forbade all work on his festival. There is a church dedicated to Saint Blaise in the Devon hamlet of Haccombe, near Newton Abbot (Also one at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight and another at Milton near Abingdon in Oxfordshire). It is located next to Haccombe house which is the family home of the *CAREW* family, descendants of the vice admiral on board the Mary Rose at the time of her sinking. This church, unusually, retains the office of "archpriest".
There is a St. Blaise's Well In Bromley, Kent where the water was considered to have medicinal virtues. St Blaise is also associated with Stretford in Lancashire. A Blessing of the Throats ceremony is held on February 3 at St Etheldreda's Church in London. There is a 14th-century wall painting in All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, located by the market place, marking the significance of the wool trade in the economic expansion of the market town in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Saint Blaise is the patron saint of the city of Dubrovnik and formerly the protector of the independent Republic of Ragusa. At Dubrovnik his feast is celebrated yearly on 3 February, when relics of the saint are paraded in reliquaries. The festivities begin the previous day, Candlemas, when white doves are released. Chroniclers of Dubrovnik such as Rastic and Ranjina attribute his veneration there to a vision in 971 to warn the inhabitants of an impending attack by the Venetians, whose galleys had dropped anchor in Gruž and near Lokrum, ostensibly to resupply their water but furtively to spy out the city's defenses. St. Blaise (Blasius) revealed their pernicious plan to Stojko, a canon of St. Stephen's Cathedral. The Senate summoned Stojko, who told them in detail how St. Blaise had appeared before him as an old man with a long beard and a bishop's mitre and staff.
In England in the 18th and 19th centuries Blaise was adopted as mascot of woolworkers' pageants, particularly in Essex, Yorkshire, Wiltshire and Norwich. The popular enthusiasm for the saint is explained by the belief that Blaise had brought prosperity (as symbolised by the Woolsack) to England by teaching the English to comb wool. According to the tradition as recorded in printed broadsheets, Blaise came from Jersey, Channel Islands. Jersey was certainly a centre of export of woollen goods (as witnessed by the name jersey for the woollen textile).
In iconography, Blaise is represented holding two crossed candles in his hand (the Blessing of St. Blaise), or in a cave surrounded by wild beasts, as he was found by the hunters of the governor. He is often shown with the instruments of his martyrdom, steel combs. The similarity of these instruments of torture to wool combs led to his adoption as the patron saint of wool combers in particular, and the wool trade in general. He may also be depicted with crossed candles. Such crossed candles are used for the blessing of throats on his feast day, which falls on 3 February, the day after Candlemas on the General Roman Calendar. Blaise is traditionally believed to intercede in cases of throat illnesses, especially for fish-bones stuck in the throat.>>
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https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/sir-george-carew/
<<Sir George Carew was a prominent figure in Shakespeare's Stratford,
and owned New Place before it was purchased by Shakespeare himself.
Visitors to Nash’s House will recognise this portrait of Sir George Carew (1555-1629) which hung in the staircase there until recently. The portrait is now on display in the Reading Room at the Shakespeare Centre on Henley Street.
Carew was not a native of Stratford-upon-Avon. He was born into a well-known Devonshire family and, like Shakespeare, lived and worked outside the town. Carew was knighted in 1578, became Baron Carew of Clopton in 1605 and was created Earl of Totnes in 1625/6. He was a prominent figure in the courts of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles II and a close friend of Sir Walter Raleigh.
In 1580 Carew married Joyce Clopton. Through this match, he became part of one of the great Stratford families. Since the 13th Century the Cloptons had been landowners in the area. Clopton House, now converted into apartments, still stands on the outskirts of the town to the north. Sir Hugh Clopton built the original New Place in 1483 and the family owned the property until Joyce’s father, William Clopton III, sold it in 1563. Just over thirty years later William Shakespeare purchased the house. Because of his links to the town through marriage, Carew is buried in Holy Trinity Church.
Carew served as High Steward of Stratford in 1610, about thirteen years after Shakespeare had returned to the town and purchased New Place. It is likely that the two would have known of each other and would possibly even have met. Carew would almost certainly have known of Shakespeare the playwright and actor in London and Shakespeare the businessman in Stratford. Shakespeare, in turn, would have known of Carew as a member of the nobility and a local landowner. He may also have been aware of his campaigns in Ireland and his position at court.
Without direct evidence we can never know whether the two men ever met but it is interesting to contemplate the circumstances under which they may have known each other and what this can tell us about them and the world they lived in.
The 16th Century saw significant unrest and conflict in Ireland. The Tudor re-conquest of Ireland began after the Earl of Kildare’s failed rebellion against the English crown in the 1530s. Carew first went to Ireland in 1574 and retired from his post there in 1603. He had been appointed lord president of Munster in early 1600 following the Earl of Essex’s failure to put an end to the rebellion.
Carew’s attitude towards Ireland and the Irish was affected by the death of his brother, Peter, in a skirmish against Irish fighters. He told Sir Francis Walsingham that it would be "hard for any Englishman to dwell in this land, for there is no war amongst themselves but all upon us; nothing so hateful as the name and habit of an Englishman; no part of Ireland free from rebellion. The loss I have sustained by this wicked nation is too grievous to remember, if hope of revenge did not breed me comfort."
When Carew did take his revenge, by killing one of the men who was alleged to have been involved in Peter’s death, the authorities in England and Ireland were not pleased and he was sent back to London temporarily in 1586.
Carew’s attitude towards the Irish was probably not untypical. When Shakespeare makes reference to Ireland it is not painted in a flattering light. The Irish are seen as rebels and the wars that are fought there are costly. Shakespeare creates many Scottish and Welsh characters but only one Irish character. This is probably due to censorship at the time. The Irish wars caused a crisis and at some points it seemed that England might fail in its suppression of the country's violent resistance to English rule.
If you want to know more about Shakespeare and Ireland you can listen to the BBC podcast, Shakespeare’s Restless World, produced in conjunction with The British Museum.
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. Francis Bacon's Friends And Associates
. http://www.sirbacon.org/fbfriendsassociates.htm
. by Constance M. Pott
. Reprinted from Baconiana No. 30, April 1900
.
<<Amongst others of the Secret Society were the Careys or Carews. Four
of this family were engaged in the Virginian enterprise. John, helped
with the Revels at Court, and supplied properties. Richard is described
as a writer chiefly on Topgraphy. He died in 1620. His brother George
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and is the reputed author of an account
of France and of the Court of Henri IV of France. This work, however,
was not published, or (we believe) heard of until 100 years after his
death, which occured in 1614. This *Sir George Carew* was, from early
youth to latest age, very intimate with Francis Bacon; we are therefore
fully prepared to learn that George and Thomas Carew were, Poets--that
Thomas was also a dramatist, and that he is said to have written the
Masque entitled, "Coelum Brittanicum," which was performed before the
Court at Whitehall in 1633, and greatly admired. In fact, all these
men were Bacon's "Masks," engaged in publishing his works.>>
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Clopton Manor, came to George Carew through
his marriage to the Clopton heiress.
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http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/GeorgeCarew(ETotnes).htm
George CAREW (1st E. Totnes)
Born: 29 May 1555
Acceeded: 7 Feb 1625/6
Died: 27 Mar 1629, The Savoy, England
Buried: 2 May 1629, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Father: George CAREW (Sir)
Mother: Anne HARVEY
Married: Joyce CLOPTON 31 May 1580, Stratford on Avon.
Children:
1. Peter CAREW
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<<Born on 29 May 1555. Second son of George Carew and Anne, daughter
of Sir Nicholas Harvey, who was first archdeacon of Totnes, in Devon,
next dean of Bristol and chief chanter in the cathedral of Salisbury,
afterwards dean of the king's chapel and *dean of Christ's Church* ,
Oxford, lastly dean of Exeter and Windsor.
.
George was educated, like the father, at Broadgates Hall (afterwards
Pembroke College), Oxford, where he stayed from 1564 to 1573, and was
created M.A. at a later date, 17 Sep 1589. From an early age he devoted
himself to military pursuits. In 1574 he entered the service of his 1st
cousin, Sir Peter Carew, in Ireland. In 1575 he served as a volunteer in
the army in Ireland under Sir Henry Sidney, and after filling the post
of captain of the garrison in Leighlin for a few months in 1576, in the
absence of his brother Peter, was appointed lieutenant-governor of the
county of Carlow and vice-constable of Leighlin Castle in 1576.
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In 1578 he held a captaincy in the royal navy, and made a voyage in the
ship of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In 1579 and 1580 he was at the head first
of a regiment of Irish infantry and afterwards of a regiment of cavalry
in Ireland. He was made constable of Leighlin-bridge Castle in 1580, on
the death (in a skirmish, 25 Aug, with the Irish) of his brother Peter.
Shortly afterwards Carew killed with his own hand several Irishmen
suspected of slaying his brother, and was severely censured by the
home government for him impetuosity. The Queen, however, showed
much liking for him, and the Cecils were his friends. He became a
gentleman-pensioner to Queen Elizabeth in 1582; sheriff of Carlow
in 1583; and was knighted by his friend the lord deputy of Ireland,
Sir John Perrot, on 24 Feb 1585-1586.
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He served (1588?92) as Master of the Ordnance to Queen Elizabeth.
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He took part in the naval expeditions to Cádiz (May 1596) and
the Azores in 1597, when he was Member of Parliament for Queenborough.
In May 1598 was for a short time an envoy to France, when his
companion was Sir Robert Cecil.
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He was appointed (27 Jan 1599/1600) lord president of Munster,
presumably recommended by his friend Sir Walter Raleigh. At the time
the whole of Ireland was convulsed by the great rebellion of Hugh
O?Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Essex's attempt to crush it failed miserably,
and Carew's relations with the Cecils did not make his advice congenial
to Essex. When Lord Mountjoy was nominated Essex's successor, the
powerful support that Carew lent Mountjoy chiefly enabled the latter
to suppress the revolt. At Kinsale he did especial service, and the
successful raids he made on neighboring castles effectually prevented
the Spaniards from landing in the country after their ejection.
Like all contemporary English officials in Ireland, he ruthlessly
drove his victory home, and the Irish peasants of Munster
were handled with his utmost vigour.
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As soon as Ireland was pacified, Carew sought to return to England.
His health was failing, and the anxieties of his office were endless,
but while Elizabeth lived his request was overlooked. On Lord Mountjoy's
resignation of the lord-deputyship in May 1603, Carew was allowed to
retire, and Sir Henry Brouncker was promoted to the presidency of
Munster. James I on his accession treated him with marked attention.
Early in Oct 1603 he became Queen Anne's vice-chamberlain, and a few
days later (10 Oct) the receiver-general of her revenues. He was
Member of Parliament for Hastings in the Parliament which met
in 1604, and appointed councillor to the Queen on 9 Aug 1604.
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On 4 Jun 1605 following he was created Baron Carew of Clopton House,
near Stratford-on-Avon, the property of his wife Joyce, daughter of
John Clopton, whom he married in 1580. On 26 Jun 1608 he was
nominated master of ordnance, and held the post till 5 May 1617.
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He was keeper of *Nonsuch House and Park* in 1609, of which he was
reappointed keeper for life 22 May 1619, councillor of the colony
of Virginia (23 May 1609), Governor of Guernsey (Feb 1609/10),
commissioner to reform the army and revenue of Ireland (1611),
a privy councillor (19 Jul 1616).
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Carew visited Ireland in 1610 to report on the condition of the
country, with a view to resettlement of Ulster, and described Ireland
as improving rapidly and recovering from the disasters of the previous
century. In 1618 he pleaded with James I in behalf of Sir Walter
Raleigh, with whom he had lived for more than thirty years on
terms of great intimacy, and Lady Carew proved a kind friend
to Raleigh's family after the execution.
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In 1621 Carew received, jointly with the Duke of Buckingham and
the Viscount Cranfield, a monopoly for the manufacture of gunpowder.
At the funeral of James I in 1625 he was attacked with Palsy, which
nearly proved fatal. But he recovered sufficiently to receive a few
marks of favour from Charles I, to whose friend Buckingham he had
attached himself. Member of the important council of war to consider
the question of recovering the Palatinate (21 Apr 1624), and
treasurer-general to Queen Henrietta Maria (1626).
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Carew was created Earl of Totnes on 5 Feb 1625/6. In the following
month the House of Commons, resenting the action of the council of war
in levying money for the support of Mansfield's disastrous expedition,
threatened to examine each of its members individually. Totnes expressed
his readiness to undergo the indignity and even to suffer imprisonment
in order to shelter the King, who was aimed at by the commons, but
Charles proudly rejected Totnes's offer and prohibited any of the
council from acceding to the commons' orders.
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The Earl died on 27 Mar 1629 at his house in the Savoy, London, and
was buried in the church of Stratford-on-Avon, near Clopton House.
An elaborate monument was erected above his grave by his widow,
with a long inscription detailing his military successes (Dugdale,
Warwickshire, 1730, ii. 686-7). He left no children. Sir George had
a son, named Peter Carew, who died young during his father's life.
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Carew had antiquarian tastes, and was the friend of Camden,
*Sir Robert Cotton* , and Sir Thomas Bodley. Camden thanked Carew
in his 'Britannia' for the aid he had given him in Irish matters
(ed. Gibson, 1772, ii. 338). He collected material on the history of
Ireland, used later by his secretary, Sir Thomas Stafford, to prepare
the important 'Pacata Hibernia; or, An Historie of the Late Warres of
Ireland' (1633). Sir Thomas Stafford was probably, though the evidence
is incomplete, a natural son of the Earl of Totnes. Stafford served
under Carew, when president of Munster, as captain in the wars in
Ireland during Elizabeth's reign. When Carew died in 1629, it was
intended that Stafford should be buried in the same tomb at
Stratford-on-Avon, and an inscription (printed in Dugdale's
Warwickshire, ii. 686) was engraved on it describing Stafford's
career, leaving the date of death to be filled in. That was
never done, and it is uncertain when Stafford died (he was
alive in 1639) and whether he was buried in Carew's tomb.
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Carew by his will, dated 30 Nov 1625 and proved on 29 May 1629,
bequeathed to Stafford his vast collection of manuscripts relating
to Ireland, the greater part of which, consisting of 39 volumes.
He spent much of his leisure in constructing pedigrees of Irish
families, many of which in his own hand are still extant. From
Stafford the manuscripts and books passed to Archbishop Laud.
Sir George names in his will his great nephew, Peter Apsley.
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From Burke's Extinct (London, Harrison, 1883) Sir George Carew, born in
1555, married Anne, daughter of Nicholas Harvey. He was Vice Chamberlain
to the Queen, Lieutenant General of the Ordnance, Lord President of the
Province of Munster, in Ireland, created Baron Carew of Clopton, co.
Warwick, on 4 May 1605; and, in the first year of Charles I, on
7 Feb 1625, he was created Earl of Totnes, co. Devon. A great lover
of historical antiquities, he collected charters and
wrote an historical account of his time in Ireland.>>
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<<George Carew (died c.1613) was an English diplomat and historian,
the second son of Sir Wymond Carew of Antony. He was educated at
Oxford and entered the Inns of Court before travelling abroad. At the
recommendation of Queen Elizabeth I, who conferred on him the honour
of a knighthood, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton.
Later, having been promoted to a Mastership in Chancery,
he was sent as ambassador to the King of Poland.
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During the reign of James I he was employed in negotiations with
Scotland and for several years was ambassador to the court of France.
On his return he wrote a Relation of the State of France, written in
the classical style of the Elizabethan age and featuring sketches of
the leading persons at the court of Henry IV. It appears as an
appendix to Dr. Birch's Historical View of the Negotiations between
the Courts of England, France and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617.
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Much of the information regarding Poland contained in
De Thou's History of His Own Times was furnished by Carew.
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Carew is also believed to have written, or been responsible for
the compilation of, A Relation of the State of Polonia (1598).>>
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Sir George CAREW
Born: 1565
Died: 13 Nov 1612
Buried: St. Margaret's Church, London, England
Father: Thomas CAREW of Antony
Mother: Elizabeth EDGECOMBE
Married: Thomasine GODOLPHIN 7 Jul 1588
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Children:
1. Richard CAREW (d. at 17 years of age)
2. Francis CAREW (d. 1628)
3. Anne CAREW
4. Mary CAREW
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<<Lawyer and diplomatist, was the second son of Thomas Carew of Antony,
and the younger brother of Richard Carew, the historian of Cornwall.
'In his younger years,' says his brother, 'he gathered such fruit as
the university, the inns of court, and foreign travel could yield him'.
He married in 1588 to Thomazine, daughter of Sir Francis Godolphin, by
Margaret Killigrew. After his return from abroad he was called to the
bar, obtaining the post of secretary to Lord Chancellor Hatton, and on
Hatton's decease held the same office, 'by special recommendation from
Queen Elizabeth', under Sir John Puckering and Sir Thomas Egerton
keepers of the great seal. Through the same royal favour Carew was made
a prothonotary in chancery, and Queen Elizabeth conferred upon him the
honour of knighthood, and in 1598 was dispatched on an embassy to
Brunswick, Sweden, Poland, and Danzig. While on this mission, 'through
unexpected accidents, he underwent extraordinary perils, but God freed
him from them, and he performed his duty in acceptable manner'.
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On 21 Dec 1599 he was appointed a master in chancery
and held that preferment until his death in 1612.
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As the younger son of an influential Cornish family and a leading
courtier he had little difficulty in obtaining a seat in parliament for
one of the numerous boroughs in Cornwall. He sat for St. Germans in
1584, for Saltash in 1586, 1588, 1593, and for St. Germans again in
1597, 1601, and 1604. The honour of knighthood was conferred upon him at
Whitehall 23 Jul 1603, on the eve of the coronation of James I, and in
the following year he was nominated to a place in the commission to
arrange the affairs of the union of the two countries of England and
Scotland.
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At the close of 1605 Carew was sent as Ambassador to the court of
France, where he remained until Jul 1609, when the French ministers, who
regarded him as a friend to the Spanish interests, were not displeased
at his return to England. After considerable competition from other
seekers after office he secured in Jun 1612 the high and lucrative place
of master of the court of wards, which was vacant by the death of Robert
Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. The reason for this great promotion was
assigned by some to his wife's influence with the Queen, by others to
the favour of Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester (after Earl of Somerset),
and on his death he was currently reported to have paid dear for the
place. Among the Latin epigrams of John Owen is one (bk. vi. No. 20) to
the effect that while the King committed to Carew the care of the wards,
he showed himself to have a care for Carew's merits. In Aug 1612 he
was a member of the commission for raising money for our soldiers
in Denmark, and with that appointment his official life was over.
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On Friday, 13 Nov 1612, he died, 'in reasonable case, worth
10,000 pounds', and was buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster.
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Francis, his elder son was created K.B. at the coronation of King
Charles I and attended the Earl of Denbigh in the expedition for the
relief of Rochelle, where he acquired great reputation by his courage
and conduct. He died in the Isle of Wight, June 4, 1628, at the age of
twenty-seven; Richard, the younger son, attained only his seventeenth
year; Anne, the eldest daughter was wife of one Rawlin; Mary Carew
married Sir Richard Osborne; the other daughter died single.'>>
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Ron Heisler - The Forgotten English Roots of Rosicrucianism
Article originally published in The Hermetic Journal, 1992.
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<<In the 1590s [Sir Thomas Egerton] was a vigorous promoter
of the career of Sir Francis Bacon. John Donne the poet became
his secretary. Another of his secretaries, *GEORGE CAREW* , was
presented with a copy of Arcana arcanissima by Michael Maier and
probably provided hospitality to Maier whilst serving as ambassador
in France. In 1610, when Egerton's son James was killed in a duel,
*Robert FLUDD* and his servant were interrogated by a law officer
for the light they could throw on the affair. Presumably *FLUDD*
had been in attendance on the dying man. Egerton's third wife, the
shrewish Alice, was the widow of Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby,
whom Professor Honigmann argues with some trenchancy had been an
early patron of the Bard. A fierce Protestant, if not quite a
Puritan, Egerton originally a good friend to the Earl of Essex
before his fall from grace was to bind himself strongly in
alliance with William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, and the
Earl of Southampton, both famous patrons of Shakespeare.>>
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<<The first salvage attempts were made within months, on the coast of
County Clare by Sir George Carew, who complained at the expense "of
sustaining the divers with copious draughts of usequebaugh [whiskey]".
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Sorley Boy MacDonnell recovered 3 brass cannon and
2 chests of treasure from the wreck of the Girona.
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In 1797 a quantity of lead and some brass guns were raised from
the wreck of an unknown Armada ship at Mullaghderg in County Donegal.
Two miles further south, in 1853, an anchor was recovered
from another unknown Armada wreck.
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The Grainuaile Suite (1985), a classical treatment of the life of the
Irish sea-queen Grace O'Malley by Irish composer Shaun Davey, contains
a lament on the Spanish landings in Ireland, sung by Rita Connolly.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle
Thomas the Apostle
Born 1st century AD Galilee
Died 21 December 72 Mylapore, India
Honored in: Anglican Communion
Feast: 21 December
Attributes: The Twin, placing his finger in the side of Christ,
*SPEAR* (means of martyrdom), square (his profession, a builder)
Patronage: Architects, Builders, India, and others.
<<Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus (meaning
"Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known
for disbelieving Jesus' resurrection when first told of it, then
proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus in John 20:28.
He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside the Roman Empire
to preach the Gospel. He is also believed to have crossed
the largest area, which includes the Parthian Empire & India.
The Nag Hammadi copy of the Gospel of Thomas begins: "These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos, Judas Thomas, recorded." Early Syrian traditions also relate the apostle's full name as Judas Thomas. Some have seen in the Acts of Thomas (written in east Syria in the early 3rd century, or perhaps as early as the first half of the 2nd century) an identification of Saint Thomas with the apostle Judas, Son of James, better known in English as Jude. However, the first sentence of the Acts follows the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles in distinguishing the apostle Thomas and the apostle Judas son of James. In the Book of Thomas the Contender he is alleged to be a twin to Jesus: "Now, since it has been said that you are my twin and true companion, examine yourself…">>
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Art Neuendorffer