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I ACKNOWLEDGE the "rebel" alliance of WAR CRIME. Make the decision to shoot down the Super Star Destroyer "the Ravager", while its admiralty had Surrendered, the disarmament codes had been transmitted to the Rebel Admiral ship, a deluge of fire fell on this imperial building causing the death of 48,523 prisoners of war, de facto. The Allaince Rebelle, who was not at his first attempt at war crimes, tried to put a veil on this affair but all ended up knowing. We can never forget or forgive this so-called Rebel Alliance until the criminals who made the decision to take down the Ravager are brought to justice. The victors write history in propaganda books with the tears of the widows of the vanquished soldiers as ink. More than 48,000 dead, more than 48,000 families have lost one of their own, sometimes even complete siblings decimated. It is out of the question to pass the towel. He who reigns through lies ends up deceiving; he who lives in terror dies in fear.
In this building and its predecessor church Christians have worshipped for more than a thousand years. The original, probably timber, church is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, in which there are said to be 20 acres of land attached to it. It is not known when the present stone structure was begun. The oldest visible portion is the interior of the tower, the arch of which dates it as having been built about the year 1200 or a little later. The chancel may have been constructed at the same time. This early church must have consisted simply of nave and chancel, without aisles, and with a high-pitched roof without any clerestory, possibly thatched. The beautiful east window of Decorated or Flamboyant design seems to point to a building of an early date.
The enlarged size of the new church, together with its high elevation of roof, would seem to suggest an increase in population and in wealth in the lower end of the valley of the Stour, for a south aisle was clearly felt necessary in the 15th century, though the old tower was left unaltered.
The known story of the building of the new parts of the church - expanding outwards from the simplicity of the nave and chancel - begins in 1455 when the will of William Clerke senior, presumably the father of the John Clerk who came to live in the Gables opposite, gave half a mark (6s 8d) towards the church building. Three years later the will of William the younger says, 'I give to an Ele (aisle) in the church of Stratford 10 marks, and if they make none ele I give to the same church but 20s'. This dates the construction of the south aisle, and a little later mention is made in the Court Rolls of a gift of 'fabriciae' (possibly ironwork), which shows that the work was proceeding.
But the major construction was done by 2 members of the Mors family, whose benefactions are recorded in the inscription along the exterior base of the north aisle wall. Thomas and Margaret Mors completed the building of the western portion of the north aisle (up to where the vestry curtain now hangs) shortly before Thomas died in 1500. In his will he instructs his executors to dispose of the residue of his goods 'in bilding the body of the church of Stratford, as in makying of the clearstory with windos and glasing convenient to the same with ledyng according to that I have showed my mind therein'. Margaret's will, dated 1510, leaves directions that she is to be buried 'in the North Yle by my husband'. She also bequeaths a certain sum for the building of a porch.
Thomas' son Edward was one of the executors responsible for seeing that this was done and, as the most easterly inscription on the exterior aisle wall implies, Edward and Alice his wife (daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant in Stratford) completed what Thomas and Margaret had begun by extending the north aisle to create the space now used as a vestry. In 1526 Edward directs his executors to 'make up the North Yle in form and manner as the other Yle is on the south side'. Edward's work was begun in 1530 and completed in 1531. The dividing line between the work of Edward's masons and those of his father is clearly shown in the flints of the facing of the wall - those of the western and earlier section are considerably larger and coarser in their finish.
The porch is the least ancient addition to the building in this period and, although Margaret Mors left 10s for the purpose in 1510, John Smith (another clothier and either father or grandfather to the John Smith whose memorial brass is in the central aisle) actually built it in 1532, as his initials and the date on the exterior show. Over the entrance of the porch is a niche which must once have held a statue of the Virgin Mary, but it is now empty.
As the main London road passed the church until 1935, no doubt Thomas and Margaret Mors caused the ABC to be placed on the wall where travellers could not fail to see it, because it was at that time recognised as a reminder to those who had their hands full, both that they were in need of praying and of the means of doing so.
The buttresses display some rather elaborate work and on them, as on the parapet, the initials of the founders recur frequently, together with the merchants' mark and 1531, the year in which the aisle was completed.
It is highly probable that Thomas and Margaret, Edward and Alice Mors were all buried in the floor of the north aisle, as their wills demanded, and the ledgers from which the brasses have been removed must be theirs. A very old deed conveying a part of Stour Meadow to 'Anthony Morse and others shows that the Mors family was still represented in Stratford in 1585.
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Folio from Quran, 750-800 AD (2nd century AH) (Syria? Yemen?)
Black, red and green ink on vellum
33.3 x 400 mm (leaf)
267 x 320 mm (text block)
A QUR'AN FOLIO, NORTH AFRICA OR THE NEAR EAST, LATE 8TH CENTURY
Qur'an manuscript leaf on vellum, with 16ll. of elegant black kufic with pronounced circular letters, diacritics indicated with black lines, vocalization of red and occasional green dots, verse endings marked with groups of three diagonal lines.
Roundel 10-verse marker on obverse, line 8
Alif 5-verse marker on reverse, line 8
According to a friend, the entire folio is from Surah 5: al-Ma'ida: The Table Spread With Food and starts with the last part of Verse 101 and runs through the first part of verse 106. Verses 101-105 address faith, with Allah (the Beneficent and Merciful) demanding believers give up their other faiths they've held onto out of tradition, but also forgives them for having done so. Verse 103 alludes to some of those traditions, which are similar to the Hindu practice of letting cows loose to wander freely. Verse 106 addresses appointing two good and pious men as executors of one's dying will.
Condition: Well... Top and bottom halves are completely separated horizontally and there's a vertical crease in the middle, suggesting the leaf was folded into quarters. Numerous other signs of wear. Text on both sides is complete but barely legible on obverse (pages are turned left to right). Tear and repairs (obverse) affect all of line 9 and the 10-verse marker, and some of lines 7 and 9. Remnants on obverse of tape used to hold top and bottom together at one time. The only mitigating factors are that descriptions of other leaves suggest similar horizontal tears, and even a leaf missing its last three lines was desirable, though that came from a famous collection.
Provenance: Acquired in 2018 from an Amsterdam antiques dealer retiring and selling off his eclectic stock (viz. paintings, prints, glass, nautical antiques, etc.). I had known him several years. When I asked him where he'd gotten this manuscript, he couldn't recall, but he had had it in storage since the 1980s.
As about 90 leaves appear extant, out of a conjectured 500-600 in the total text, my leaf has at least a 1 in 6 or 7 chance of following or preceding a known page.
Similar folios I have found online:
Two at LACMA - "Abbasid Caliphate, late 8th century"
(M.73.5.508) - collections.lacma.org/node/240038
(M.2002.1.383) - collections.lacma.org/node/204570 (white and green alif every 5 verses, roundel every 10)
One at Brooklyn Museum - Abbasid / 8th-9th century (same white and green alif every 5 verses, roundel every 10, as LACMA)
(1995.186 ) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/154555
One at Bonhams - Sale 25 April 2017, 11:00 BST - late 8th century - early 9th century AD (Syria?)
www.bonhams.com/auctions/24197/lot/3/?category=list - (Roundel, no alif)
One at Ashmolean - late 8th century - early 9th century AD - Roundel, no alif
jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection/8/per_page/25/offse...
Three individual leaves and an incredible bonanza of 76 leaves, at Christies:
Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets, 2019 (76 leaves)
A SUBSTANTIAL GROUP OF LARGE KUFIC QUR’AN LEAVES
LATE UMAYYAD OR EARLY ABBASID, PROBABLY DAMASCUS OR JERUSALEM, MID-8TH CENTURY
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6229646
The Saeed Motamed Collection - Part I, London, South Kensington, 22 April 2013
Lot 38 - A LARGE KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO - NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, LATE 8TH CENTURY (Roundel, no alif)
www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/a-large-kuf...
Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, London, 5 October 2010
Lot 53 - A KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO - NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, END OF THE 8TH CENTURY (Roundel, no alif)
www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-kufic-quran-folio-near-...
Indian & Islamic Works of Art, London, South Kensington, 26 October 2007
Lot 257 - A QUR'AN FOLIO, NORTH AFRICA OR THE NEAR EAST, LATE 8TH CENTURY (Dire condition, missing top line and most of bottom line; roundel, no alif)
www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-quran-folio-north-afric...
Two lots (1 & 5) at Sothebys London, in 2019: THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts, 23 October 2019:
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/the-shakerine-collec...
All of these match this item in the Khalili Collection, in page size, text size, style, number of lines, and ornamentation:
Francois Deroche, The Abbasid Tradition: Qurans in the 8th to 10th Centuries - The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, London 1992, pp. 120-123, no. 66.
Rio Tocantins na cidade de Marabá (PA).
Julgamento do assassinato dos ativistas José Cláudio e Maria dos Espírito Santo, que foram mortos em março de 2011 em Nova Ipixuna. O resultado do júri, que aconteceu nos dias 03 e 04 de abril, foi a condenação dos executores Alberto Lopes e Lindonjonson Silva, e absolvição de José Rodrigues, acusado de ser o mandante do crime. A ação provocou revolta nos familiares e movimentos agrários que acompanhavam o caso em vigília no Fórum de Marabá (PA).
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William Browne c1410 - 1489 and wife Margaret 1489 lye on the south chapel floor in their original place where he asked in his will of 17th February 1489 to be buried . General wool merchant, Mayor, Justice of the Peace, Sherriff, Benefactor. Acquired during his lifetime around 200 properties and 10,000 acres of land including the Manor of Lilford He and his brother John 1475 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B6W946 restored, embellished and enlarged the 13c church of All Saints c1475 after major damage by lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses..
Browne's hospital www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/N8Uh6c , an almshouse in Broad Street adjacent to where he lived and which is still in use today was founded in November 1493 on his instructions after his death by his widow Margaret, Thomas Stokke, clerk, her brother and other executors which was dedicated to pray their souls and also for the Queen, Sir Reynold Bray and wife Katherine, Thomas Stokke and William Elmes,
William who died on 14th April 1489 stands on 2 woolsacks, over his head is his motto "X me spede" (Christ speed me) and at his feet the family crest of a stork on a woolsack. Over Margaret are the words "Dere Lady help at need"
A long inscription translates -
"Since Thou alone art King of kings, Lord of lords
All that is and will be shall be subjected to Thy will
My body entered the earth, but my spirit to Thee
hastens to run. Thou God, accept me,
Who put my hope in Thee, Son of God, gentle Father
and Holy Ghost thundering from on high - accept and receive me, I have sinned, I have done much evil, and rue this
Thou God accept and receive me who is calling out to Thee !
Enter not, Lord, in judgement, unless beforehand
Thou deignest to give me of Thy redeeming grace, which is enough and since for the sake of the salvation of our souls
Thou, King, wast on earth, receive me, my God! "
William was the son of John Browne 1442, wool merchant, and wife Margery / Margaret 1460 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z1Zb1N
He m Margaret 1489 heiress daughter of Agnes 1465 & John Stock / Stokke / Stokes of Warmington
Children
1. Elizabeth c1441-1511 m John Elmes 1497 of Henley-on-Thames, merchant of the Staple of Calais (parents of Margaret Elmes 1571 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30591z )
2. Agnes died young
Elizabeth inherited the majority of his wealth and land, estimated to be around 6,000 acres in total and 50 houses (at today’s value worth around £50 million), the balance of land having been endowed to the Alms houses / Hospital. One of the manors inherited by Elizabeth was the Manor of Lilford, which the Elmes family owned until 1711. The wealth of William Browne was thus the basis on which Lilford Hall was built by his grandson and executor William Elmes in 1495, and indeed its' extension in 1635.
www.pegasus-onlinezeitschrift.de/2010_1/erga_1_2010_lamp-...
www.lilfordhall.com/ElmesFamily/William-Browne.asp - Church of All Saints, Stamford Lincolnshire
The Nathaniel Russell House, at 51 Meeting Street, was built by Nathaniel Russell, a wealthy Rhode Island merchant, from 1908-1911. He and his wife, Sarah Russell, lived in the Adamesque building during the early 19th century. Russell's heirs sold the house to Gov. Robert Francis Withers Allston, who lived here while governor. ln 1870, his executors sold it to the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. In 1905 it was purchased by the Pelzer family and converted back to a private residence. The Historic Charleston Foundation bought it in 1955 and has restored it as a house museum and the foundation's headquarters
The rectangular three story brick mansion with an octagonal wing on the south side is built of brick with white stone and wood trim. lt has a transomed entrance with an elliptical fanlight, a wrought iron balcony with the monogram of Russell, and a balustraded parapet. It famously boasts a free flying staircase rising three floors without visible support.
National Register #71000750
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of the Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team take a tour of various departments during a visit to the U.S. Naval Academy. Proteus is the world’s most advanced underwater research station, a collaborative global platform for researchers, academics, government agencies, and corporations to advance ocean science. U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)
Underneath the arch between the north chapel and chancel, tomb of Sir David Phillip / Phelip 1450- 1506 and wife Anne Seymark 1533-1510 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/VG480o who is buried Chenies manor Bucks which she inherited ++
This was the site of a chantry set up after his death, licenced in November 1506 to David Cecille one of his executors "to fund a chantry of 2 chaplins or 1 chaplin perpetual for the good estate of the King while he lives and for his soul afterwards and for the soul of Elizabeth his late consort and the soul of the said David and of his father and mother and Anne his wife (when she dies) and all faithful with licence for the said chaplin to acquire in mortmoin lands to the value of 9l a year".
Anne was the co-heiress daughter of Thomas Seymark / Semark of Thornhaugh by Alice daughter of William Lexham
and Margaret Oldhall. She was the ward of Sir Richard Sapcote of Elton Hunts and later firstly married to his 2nd son William Sapcote having a son Guy Sapcote m Margaret daughter of Guy Wolston
Sir David & Anne m c1485 but had no children,
.Coming from a lowly welsh family Sir David served Henry Tudor (late Henry Vll) in France and fought at the Battle of Bosworth. He became a squire to the body and gentleman usher at court and steward to the kings mother Margaret Beaufort at Colley Weston palace near Stamford living nearby at Thornhaugh, He also held the office of Keeper of the Kings Swans in the waters of Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire and was also keeper of the royal forest of Kings Cliffe which bounded his estates and Windsor Park. .In 1499 he was sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham and a benefactor to the church of Holme in Hunts where there was a window inscription "Of your chartie pray for Sir Davy Phelip and my lady his wife, and for all benefactors of this windowe".
His nephew by marriage Richard Cecil www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z8mxo3 , father of William Cecil, Lord Burghley joined him having married advantageously Alice daughter of John Dicons alderman of Stamford by Margaret Seymark sister of his wife Anne Seymark ++
On the monument is the Dragon of Wales together with crowned Tudor Roses, and the Portcullis emblem of the Beauforts
The Semarks were out of favour after Bosworth and Annes marriage to David Phelip favoured by the Tudors and Ann's inheritance of the Cheyne fortune resulted into a family of position within the Court of Henry VIII.
www.cb5.co.uk/davidphelip.htm - Church of St Mary Stamford Lincolnshire
Letter from Elizabeth Nichols, widow of Jonas Nichols to Solicitors Hearn and Hearn 7th June 1894, Preston Bissett, Buckinghamshire.
Elizabeth Warr born 1843 at Preston Bissett the daughter of John and Hannah Warr married Jonas Nichols born 1850 at Croughton, Northamptonshire in 1875 at Buckingham.
He died 10th March 1894. He had named his wife Elizabeth as Executrix and sole beneficiary. In the Codicil he names Thomas Herons, Farmer of Hardwick, Oxford as an Executor along with his wife.
Nichols of Preston Bissett, Buckinghamshire Family Papers
Built late 1840s by Henry Evans, occupied by George Fife Angas when he arrived 1851, after his death property was transferred to Charles Howard Angas, remained in Angas family until 1965. Sold to horse trainer Colin Hayes and developed as a horse training & breeding complex, sold 2013 & 2023, now private.
“On Friday night, about 12 o'clock, a fire broke out in a paddock belonging to Wm. Clark, Esq., close to Angaston. . . . on Saturday forenoon it burst out again, and a wind blowing at the time, carried the flames across the country destroying everything they came near. Several of our small farmers are severely injured as to property. . . It still carried on, and reached Mr. Angas's paddocks, which have also been consumed. At one time great fears were entertained that the residence of the Hon. G. F. Angas, Lindsay Park, would be consumed, but, fortunately, it escaped.” [Advertiser 26 Jan 1860]
“ANGAS.— [Died] On the 11th January, at Lindsay House, near Angaston, Rosetta, the beloved wife of George Fife Angas, aged 74 years.” [Register 16 Jan 1867]
“During the past week, the Sunday School children of Angaston and its vicinity, nearly seven hundred in number, experienced a day's enjoyment at Lindsay Park, being hospitably entertained by its respected owner Mr G. F. Angas.” [Bunyip, Gawler 23 Mar 1872]
“For some time past the people of Angaston have felt the want of a piece of land as recreation grounds, suitable for holding athletic sports, cricket, and football matches, and kindred field-sports ; consequently a deputation representative of the various Clubs, accompanied by local dignitaries, drove out, preceded by a coach and four containing the Angaston Brass Band, to Lindsay Park to make an application to Mr. G. F. Angas to kindly consider and provide for the requirement of the township. A letter signed by about 200 persons having been read to Mr. Angas, he expressed his willingness to give favourable consideration to the request.” [Evening Journal 1 Aug 1876]
“The 1st of May being the anniversary of Mr. G F. Angas's birthday. . . a number of residents in Nuriootpa, Light's Pass, Keyneton, and Angaston assembled in Angaston about 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and drove out to Mr. Angas's picturesque residence at Lindsay Park to congratulate him on his having entered his 90th year. Arriving at the Park Lodge a procession was formed of gentlemen on foot, headed by the Angaston Brass Band playing suitable airs, and proceeded through the beautiful garden grounds up to the house, where they were received and subsequently entertained by Mr. John H. Angas on behalf of his venerable father. All available standing room in the house, on the balcony, and piazza was filled.” [Register 4 May 1878]
“ANGAS.— [Died] On the 15th May, at Lindsay Park, Angaston, George Fife Angas, aged 90 years.” [Register 17 May 1879]
“Mr. Angas, who ranks among the founders of South Australia, and has been resident in the colony for more than a quarter of a century, was born on May 1, 1789. . . early years were spent at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where his father carried on an extensive business as coach manufacturer, merchant, and shipowner. . . Mr. G. F. Angas. . . while he was still an apprentice, he was the means of establishing a Benevolent Society for helping the aged and distressed coachmakers of the town; and afterwards, with the view of encouraging provident habits in the workpeople, a Savings Bank was opened under the auspices of the Society. He very early became a Sunday school teacher, and was also instrumental, with other persons, in forming the Newcastle Sunday- school Union in 1816. . . he did not adopt South Australia as his home until 1851. . . he arrived in the Ascendant. . . election to the Legislative Council. . . In 1857 he entered the first Parliament under the new Constitution as a member of the Upper House. . . he was identified more particularly with the Baptist denomination, but his giving was not restrained by sectarian preferences. He assisted in the erection of churches throughout the colony, and was a generous contributor to Bible, Missionary, and all kindred Societies, not only in South Australia, but also in other parts of the world. He also gave considerable sums towards the building of schools. . . Bushmen's Club and the Sailors' Home.” [Register 17 May 1879]
“Mr. G. F. Angas commenced an independent and successful career as a merchant and shipowner in London and Newcastle. Mr. Angas continued to trade with Honduras in mahogany, dye-woods, &c., a business which had been opened up by his father. . . In 1822 Mr. Angas induced the Baptist Missionary Society to send out a minister to Belize, giving him a passage in one of his vessels, and also contributing towards his maintenance. . . Mr. Angas opened up communication with Colonel, afterwards Sir George, Arthur, Governor of Honduras, on the subject of abolishing slavery in that part of the British dominions. . . In the year 1824 some 200 or 300 Indians were set free as the result of these efforts, and subsequently, during Colonel McDonald's superintendence, the like justice was extended to some who were held in the same condition by British subjects on the Mosquito Shore. . . In 1831 Mr. Angas assisted the Rev. Dr. Cox in the establishment of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society (with which was incorporated the Port of London and Bethel Union).” [Express & Telegraph 16 May 1879]
“In 1834, through the efforts of the gentlemen who composed the South Australian Association, an Act of Parliament was obtained authorizing the formation of the colony, and Mr. Angas then accepted an appointment on the first Board of Commissioners. . . The Act required that before the Commissioners entered upon the exercise of their general powers £35,000 worth of land must be sold; but several months after the land had been offered at £1 per acre only & portion of the stipulated quantity had been applied for. At this juncture Mr. Angas and two other gentlemen stepped in, and upon the Commissioners agreeing to reduce the price to twelve shillings per acre, advanced the money to buy the remainder of the sections. These they handed over to the South Australian Company at cost price.” [Adelaide Observer 17 May 1879]
“one of his most important purchases being what was then known as the Barossa Special Survey, a beautiful district, in the midst of which he has for many years past made his home. In 1837 he laid the foundation of German emigration to South Australia by helping out under Pastor Kavel some hundreds of Lutherans, who, in consequence of their opposition to the Government scheme for uniting the Reformed and Lutheran Churches, were suffering religious persecution in Prussia. . . co-operating actively with the Aborigines' Protection Society, and in 1838 assisting the Dresden Missionary Society to forward the Revs. Teichelmann and Schurmann to labour as missionaries among them.” [Evening Journal 17 May 1879]
“As his town residence (Prospect Hall) was situated at Bowden, the poor of Bowden, Brompton, and neighborhood for years largely enjoyed Mr. Angas's liberality; being allowed in addition to the services of a Scripture reader the sum of £50 per annum to provide them with blankets, firewood, &c., in the winter, and dinner at Christmas.” [Advertiser 17 May 1879]
“The remains or the late George Fife Angas were conveyed from residence, Lindsay House, Angaston, to the family vault in Lindsay Park on Tuesday afternoon. The shops and principal places of business were closed during the day, and flags were hoisted half-mast high in Angaston in honour of the deceased. . . over 500 persons were present. . . The procession slowly wended its way through the park to the vault, which is situated about a quarter of a mile from the house. The vault was beautifully decorated inside with flowers in wreaths and festoons, plants, &c.” [Register 21 May 1879]
“Elder's Wool and Produce Company (Limited) report having sold by auction, at Angaston, on Tuesday, September 11, under instructions from the executors of the late Mr. G. F. Angas, the following valuable landed properties:— Lindsay Park Estate, near Angaston, the residence of the late G. F. Angas, comprising 2,716 acres, at £10 1s. per acre, the purchaser being Mr. Charles Angas.” [Advertiser 12 Sep 1883]
“a drive through lovely country to Lindsay Park, which was the home of Mr. George Fife Angas, and is now vacant.” [Evening Journal 31 Dec 1887]
“As we dismounted at Lindsay Park to inspect the magnificent gardens, with their abundance of blooms, a herd of fallow deer scampered away to a hiding place over the hilltops, and a. stately emu, with conceited dignity, followed in their wake.” [Register 17 Nov 1902]
“Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Angas have left -town and gone to Lindsay Park, Angaston, where they will spend the summer.” [Critic, Adelaide 11 Oct 1916]
“Lindsay Park is a beautiful spot, with its terraced gardens, spacious lawns, and gay flower-beds, and altogether an ideal place for a. fete.” [The Mail 10 Nov 1917]
“A fete in aid of the Red Cross funds was held at Lindsay Park, Angaston, the residence of Mr. C. H. Angas. . . There were stallholders for fancy goods, produce, sweets, strawberries, afternoon tea, flowers, ice-cream, with a concert party, sideshows, and sports for the children. . . The proceeds were nearly £250.” [Advertiser 22 Nov 1917]
“ANGAS. — [Died] On the 11th December, at Lindsay Park, Angaston, Charles Howard Angas, aged 67 years.” [Register 12 Dec 1928]
“Mr. C. H. Angus. . . was the only son of the late Mr. J. H. Angas, and was one of South Australia's leading pastoralists. . . Surviving of his family are three sons and one daughter, Mr. Ronald Angas (Collingrove), Mr, Dudley T. Angas (Hill River), Mr. J. Keith Angas (Lindsay Park), and the Hon. Mrs. R. N. D. Ryder (London).” Northern Argus 14 Dec 1928]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of the Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team take a tour of various departments during a visit to the U.S. Naval Academy. Proteus is the world’s most advanced underwater research station, a collaborative global platform for researchers, academics, government agencies, and corporations to advance ocean science. U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)
Church of St Andrew Thursford Norfolk (Tureforde . Tiresfort in 1086 Domesday book) restored by W Lightly in c1862-65 & partly rebuilt 1870s by a Mr Walker, for Sir Charles Chad & family of Thursford Hall . Only the c1200 north doorway, early 14c tower and 15c south aisle survive
A north aisle was added and chancel rebuilt 1873-74
The raised south transept has the Chad private pews overlooking the chancel altar, underneath is their mausoleum. (The Chad family bought the manor from the executors of William Guybon in the 18c whose family monuments are also here)
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In 1961, Imperial Bank of Canada merged with the Candian Bank of Commerce to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, or CIBC.
I think I paid $2 for this old cheque. It's purely a hobby for me, old cheques like this one have no value. And one day when I'm dead, I'm sure my executor would just recycle it anyway!
More on the history of Imperial Bank of Canada and CIBC:
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c1450-c1520. Jane eldest daughter of John and Anne Lambard www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4923577863/ -
Jane was "well married, somewhat too soon" to "an honest citizen" William Shore a Mercer or Goldsmith but the marriage was not happy. Jane petitioned in March 1476 under her maiden name for an annulment on the grounds of William's "impotence and frigidity".which probably "the more easily made her incline unto the king's appetite when he required her" Edward "pierced Mistress Shore's soft tender heart, proper she was, and fair" if rather short in stature "yet delighted not men so much in her beauty as in her pleasant behaviour for a proper wit had she, and could both read and write. She never abused to any man's hurt, but to many a man's comfort and relief"
Edward lV in later years "had iii concubines, which in iii divers properties exceled", Two were "greater personages" than the third and "content to be nameless" suggesting these affairs were discreet. One the merriest, another the wiliest, the thirde the holiest harlot of his realme. . . But the merriest was this Shores wife in whom the king therefore took special pleasure, for many he had, but her he loved."
After his death she became the mistress of William, Lord Hastings and on his sudden execution, possibly of the Marquis of Dorset.
By order of Richard lll the bishop of London made Jane walk in open penance through the streets, taper in hand, dressed only in her kirtle, but whilst in prison she met and later married the king's solicitor Thomas Lyneham despite Richard lll asking the bishop to "exhort and stir him to the contrary," suggesting that she should be put in the "rule and guiding of her father.".
In her father's will she has a son Julian Lyneham and she is left a bed of arras with a velour tester and curtains and a stained cloth of Mary Magdalene and Martha. In her mother's will she was left an equal portion with her 4 brothers - Lyneham (who became clerk controller to Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII) being an executor.
Later she is associated with Eton College leaving it money in her will.
Described by Sir Thomas More, who had never met her "as a small woman with a great personality, one who delighted men more by her behavior than her beauty. " According to More, Jane was not mercenary.She tried to appease the King's anger and bring men out of favor into his grace, and "in many weighty sutes, she stode many men in gret stede, either for non or very smal rewardes, & those rather gay then rich."
The only R&R featuring Ava, sort of my alter-ego. It had to be her this time. You’ll possibly understand when you read this review.
Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy
First published in: “City of Glass” (1985), “Ghosts” (1986) and “The Locked Room” (1986).
This edition (as a trilogy): Penguin Books 1990.
Cover design by Greg Mollica
One morning last February, I was standing right outside a Starbucks in New York City and for some reason decided to look down. And there they were. Three twenty dollar bills. I planted my foot down immediately – because it was windy there, around the Empire State Building. Then of course I looked around and waited for a couple of minutes, to see if anyone was groping their pockets or frantically looking for something. I could have yelled “Yo, who lost 60 dollars?” but we all know people aren’t that honest. Anyway, there was no one. So I kindly thanked New York, promised to give back to the city by visiting again soon and then I took Wil to The Strand to spend the money on a just cause. Books.
One of the books I decided on was Auster’s “New York Trilogy”, partly as a nod to the city, which serves as the atmospheric backdrop to most of Auster’s novels.
“The New York Trilogy” is in intricate work consisting of three detective novella’s, seemingly stand-alone. Each novella has its own storyline, all with common themes and elements.
“City of Ghosts” begins with a phonecall to Daniel Quinn, a writer, who is mistaken for ‘Paul Auster’ (yes, Auster features himself in the book), whose services are requested to help search for a young man’s father, one Peter Stillman. Bored with his life and lacking inspiration for his writing, Quinn decides to pose as ‘Paul Auster’ and takes on the job to find Stillman. Instead of finding much of an answer, Quinn instead slowly loses something... his grip on himself.
“Ghosts” is an interesting take on the detective novel, reminiscent of film noir (or a graphic novel). Blue is hired by White to spy on Black... but what if the spy becomes the one spied on?
Finally, “The Locked Room” is the one connecting the trilogy as a whole. A mediocre writer (the narrator of this third novella) becomes the literary executor for an old friend, who has mysteriously vanished. What happened, and why is it so hard to let go?
To me personally, this quote found in “The Locked Room” is a perfect way to begin explaining what Auster is trying to do: “The story is not in the words. It’s in the struggle.” (p.346 of my edition.)
In this trilogy, which is a wonderful example of meta-fiction, Auster is exploring the techniques used in the writing of detective novels. He’s looking beneath the surface of the novels in the detective genre. Identity is a big factor; each ‘detective’ in this trilogy is trying to find someone else, but obsession forces him to be confronted with his own self.
Introspection is another theme, which is evident from the fact that Auster has incorporated a lot of himself in this book, not only by introducing the character ‘Paul Auster’ but also by using the names of various loved ones for his characters (one character is named Sophie, also the name of his daughter. Another is named Daniel, the name of his son, and so on). Details such as these makes me value the idea that perhaps Auster writes to also explore himself as a writer and individual.
What Auster has accomplished is that the reader, initially a bystander, becomes a ‘detective’ too. Reading the trilogy is thrilling, adventurous even; I found myself on the look-out for underlying connections and patterns throughout the book. Trying to find clues, searching for possible predictions and what ties these three novellas together. The ‘detectives’ in the novellas become the watched; the readers are the ones observing them, trying to find anwers.
Are there any answers? There is some form of a conclusion, yes, but much is left unresolved. But that isn’t necessarily what makes a book great. “Oracle Night”, another one of Auster’s meta-fiction novels, was quite unresolved in many ways as well, but I learned to be more aware of the reading and writing process, not just to focus my attention on a satisfying conclusion.
What I gained from “The New York Trilogy” is to actually get a real kick out of the reading experience. I am a bit of a ‘detective’ now no matter what book I read.
4.5/5
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Elizabeth Nash married Mr. John Barnard, of Abington, Northamptonshire, at Billesley, a village four miles from Stratford, June 5, 1649.
Sir John Barnard was a widower, and had already a family. There is no mention of this family in Lady Barnard's will, and a limitation to the barest law and justice towards her husband, whom she did not leave her executor. The will was drawn up on January 29, 1669-70, and she died at Abington in February. "Madam Elizabeth Bernard, wife of Sir John Bernard, Knight, was buried 17th Feb., 1669-70."1 No sepulchral monument was raised in memory of the granddaughter and heir of Shakespeare, but she probably lay in the same tomb as her husband, who died in 1674.
10221 Super Star Destroyer (Star Wars)
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The Super Star Destroyer Executor has arrived! This jaw-dropping vessel served as command ship at the Battle of Endor and as the personal flagship of Darth Vader in the classic Star Wars movies. With its classic dagger-shaped design, the Executor is among the largest and most powerful vessels in the Star Wars galaxy. With over 3,000 pieces, measuring nearly 50" (124.5 cm) long and weighing nearly 8 pounds (3.5 kg), every aspect of this fantastic LEGO® Star Wars™ model impresses. Includes 4 minifigures: Darth Vader, Admiral Piett, Dengar, Bossk and IG-88.
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Measures nearly 50 inches (124.5 cm) long and weighs nearly 8 pounds (3.5kg)!
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The Super Star Destroyer is on sale from September 1, 2011
Annie Zunz was the Irish wife of a German iron merchant, Siegfried Rudolf Zunz, who had come to London from Frankfurt-am-Main in 1860 to make his fortune with the firm Henry R Merton Ltd (dodgy goings on in WWI Hansard 16 October 1918) The couple were married for 22 years, but were childless, and when Annie died in 1896 her husband was inconsolable. He died a broken man just three years after his wife.
Siegfried decided that after his death his fortune was to be used to perpetuate the memory of his beloved Annie. In his will he instructed his executors and trustees to give £25,000 (about £1.9 million today) to a London hospital to build and maintain forever a ward named “The Annie Zunz ward”, and that a life-sized photograph of Annie was to be hung in that ward. The surplus of his estate was to be given to other London hospitals to support Annie Zunz wards.
The Royal Free, Bart’s, King’s College Hospital, the Bolingbroke and the Royal London all have Annie Zunz wards
(Brasília - DF, 05/08/2020) Presidente da República, Jair Bolsonaro conversa com a imprensa.
Foto: Isac Nóbrega/PR
Draft Will of Thomas George Williams, of 17 Redbourne Street, Hull now temporarily residing at the Admiral Harvey Public House, Ramsgate dated 22nd March 1887.
Executors/Executrix: Wife, Ellen Ann Williams and Richard Joseph Hodgman of 4, Elgar Place, Ramsgate, Kent.
Beneficiaries: Ellen Ann Williams, Son, Thomas Harold Williams. Other children are not named.
Witnesses: Edward Wotton, Solicitor and Thomas Crusaly, Clerk
Maker: Charles-Louis Michelez (1817-1894)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 4 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in
Location:
Object No. 2025.401
Shelf: N-25
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Provenance: Paul Meurice, executor of Victor Hugo
Rank: 103
Notes: An albumen print taken by Michelez of an ink wash drawing by Victor Hugo. The drawings were made to be included in “Les Travailleurs de la Mer" a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. They were not intended to illustrate the story but rather to represent Hugo's impressions during his exile. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernsey man named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations (which include a battle with a Pieuvre, an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours.
After Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup on 2 December 1851 and his failed attempt to organize the Republican resistance, Hugo escaped on 11 December by train from Paris to Brussels, dressed as a printing house worker with fake ID papers under the name of Lanvin. On 9 January 1852, his name is on the main list of “Procrits”. On 5 August 1852, Hugo arrived from Brussels to Jersey, after a transit in London. Through Edmond Bacot, a photographer from Caen who came to Jersey to support the cause of the outlaws, Hugo set up the “Jersey Workshop” between 1852 and 1855, a photographic studio in the greenhouse of Marine Terrace... photography became a family affair.
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Will of Samuel Parker, Grocer, Draper and Tailor of Wymondham, Norforlk, dated 12th October 1885. His business was carried out at Browick, Wymondham and all Businesses carried out in the name of Parker and Sons also belong to him. He has no shares in the Fancy Boot and Shoe Business in the names of Parker and sons or as Parker’s Fancy Stores except as a Creditor, they belong to his son James.
He names his wife, Caroline Parker and Solicitor Edward Boyce Pomeroy of Wymondham as Executors. He names his children as James Sparkhall Parker (also to be a Trustee), Caroline Laura Parker, Leonard Samuel Parker (also a Trustee and named Leonard James Parker elsewhere in the document) and Jessie Limmer Parker.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
Later documents deal with the Bankruptcy of the Company in the early 1900’s. The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen give a presentation to Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team on their capstone project. The midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)
William Browne c1410 - 1489 and wife Margaret 1489 lye on the south chapel floor in their original place where he asked in his will of 17th February 1489 to be buried . General wool merchant, Mayor, Justice of the Peace, Sherriff, Benefactor. Acquired during his lifetime around 200 properties and 10,000 acres of land including the Manor of Lilford He and his brother John 1475 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B6W946 restored, embellished and enlarged the 13c church of All Saints c1475 after major damage by lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses..
Browne's hospital www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/N8Uh6c , an almshouse in Broad Street adjacent to where he lived and which is still in use today was founded in November 1493 on his instructions after his death by his widow Margaret, Thomas Stokke, clerk, her brother and other executors which was dedicated to pray their souls and also for the Queen, Sir Reynold Bray and wife Katherine, Thomas Stokke and William Elmes,
William who died on 14th April 1489 stands on 2 woolsacks, over his head is his motto "X me spede" (Christ speed me) and at his feet the family crest of a stork on a woolsack. Over Margaret are the words "Dere Lady help at need"
A long inscription translates -
"Since Thou alone art King of kings, Lord of lords
All that is and will be shall be subjected to Thy will
My body entered the earth, but my spirit to Thee
hastens to run. Thou God, accept me,
Who put my hope in Thee, Son of God, gentle Father
and Holy Ghost thundering from on high - accept and receive me, I have sinned, I have done much evil, and rue this
Thou God accept and receive me who is calling out to Thee !
Enter not, Lord, in judgement, unless beforehand
Thou deignest to give me of Thy redeeming grace, which is enough and since for the sake of the salvation of our souls
Thou, King, wast on earth, receive me, my God! "
William was the son of John Browne 1442, wool merchant, and wife Margery / Margaret 1460 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z1Zb1N
He m Margaret 1489 heiress daughter of Agnes 1465 & John Stock / Stokke / Stokes of Warmington
Children
1. Elizabeth c1441-1511 m John Elmes 1497 of Henley-on-Thames, merchant of the Staple of Calais (parents of Margaret Elmes 1571 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30591z )
2. Agnes died young
Elizabeth inherited the majority of his wealth and land, estimated to be around 6,000 acres in total and 50 houses (at today’s value worth around £50 million), the balance of land having been endowed to the Alms houses / Hospital. One of the manors inherited by Elizabeth was the Manor of Lilford, which the Elmes family owned until 1711. The wealth of William Browne was thus the basis on which Lilford Hall was built by his grandson and executor William Elmes in 1495, and indeed its' extension in 1635.
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www.lilfordhall.com/ElmesFamily/William-Browne.asp - Church of All Saints, Stamford Lincolnshire
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen give a presentation to Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team on their capstone project. The midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)
Sir Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (c. 1563 – 7 November 1642) was an English judge, politician and peer.
He was the grandson of Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1539–1545, who was named by King Henry VIII one of the executors of his will, and governor to his son, Edward VI. Born at Boughton, Northamptonshire, about 1563, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and, having been called to the bar, was elected recorder of London in 1603, and in 1616 was made Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, in which office it fell to him to pass sentence on Sir Walter Raleigh in October 1618.
In 1620 he was appointed Lord High Treasurer, being raised to the peerage as Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Viscount Mandeville. He became President of the Council in 1621, in which office he was continued by Charles I, who created him Earl of Manchester in 1626. In 1628 he became Lord Privy Seal, and in 1635 a commissioner of the treasury. Although from the beginning of his public life in 1601, when he first entered parliament, Manchester had inclined to the popular side in politics, he managed to retain to the end the favour of the king. He was a judge of the Star Chamber, and one of the most trusted councillors of Charles I. His loyalty, ability and honesty were warmly praised by Clarendon. In conjunction with Coventry, the lord keeper, he pronounced an opinion in favour of the legality of ship money in 1634. He died on 7 November 1642.
Manchester was married three times, firstly to Catherine Spencer.[1] He was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, from this marriage. The second son of Henry and Catherine was Walter Montagu, the courtier and abbot.[2]
One of his sons by his third wife, Margaret Crouch, was father of Charles Montagu, created Earl of Halifax in 1699.
German postcard by Friedrich-W Sander-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 2844. Photo: Constantin / Vienna Film. Publicity still for Der Lügner und die Nonne/The Liar and the Nun (Rolf Thiele, 1967).
Dashing Austrian actor Robert Hoffmann (1939) was best known for his title role performance in The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964), his debut. He has since appeared in various parts in film and TV throughout Europe in Germany, Italy, France and occasionally the UK.
Robert Hoffmann was born in Salzburg, Austria. His screen debut was the title role in the French-German TV series Les aventures de Robinson Crusoë/The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Jean Sacha, 1964). The series was based on the first of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe novels and was a huge success internationally. He then appeared as the chevalier de Lorraine in the first of the Angélique series, Angélique, marquise des anges/Angélique (Bernard Borderie, 1964), starring Michèle Mercier. He returned in the second part of the successful cycle. Merveilleuse Angélique (Bernard Borderie, 1965). He then appeared in the American-British war drama Up from the Beach (Robert Parrish, 1965) starring Cliff Robertson.The film was set in the aftermath of the Normandy Landings where a group of Allied soldiers attempt to shelter Frenchmen who faced execution by the Nazis. He then had a supporting part in the Edgar Wallace crime film Neues vom Hexer/Again the Ringer (Alfred Vohrer, 1965) with Heinz Drache. It was the direct sequel of the 1964 film Der Hexer.
Robert Hoffmann went to Italy to appear in Io la conoscevo bene/I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965) starring Stefania Sandrelli. There he played the lead in the adventure Una ráfaga de plomo/Executor (Paolo Heusch, Antonio Santillán, 1965) and in the crime drama Svegliati e uccidi/Wake Up and Die (Carlo Lizzani, 1966) with Gian Maria Volonté.It was based on the real life of Luciano Lutring, an Italian criminal known as ‘the machine-gun soloist’. He was the main male actor in Come imparai ad amare le donne/How I Learned to Love Women (Luciano Salce, 1966) with such gorgeous actresses as Michèle Mercier, Elsa Martinelli and Anita Ekberg. In the heist film Ad ogni costo/Grand Slam (Giuliano Montaldo, 1967) he played a playboy whose job it is to seduce the only woman with a key to the building holding the diamonds, the lovely Mary Ann (Janet Leigh).. Other films were the Israeli drama Tuvia Vesheva Benotav/Tevye and His Seven Daughters (Menahem Golan, 1968), based on stories by Sholom Aleichem, and later remade as the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and the adventure drama Kampf um Rom/The Last Roman (Robert Siodmak, 1968) with Laurence Harvey and Orson Welles. A late installment of the sword-and-sandal genre.
During the 1970s, Robert Hoffmann worked often in Italy. He appeared in Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire/One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future (Giuseppe De Santis, 1971). He also participated in the Giallo genre, like in Spasmo (Umberto Lenzi, 1974) with Suzy Kendall. In France he played a lieutenant in the war drama Le vieux fusil/Old Gun (Robert Enrico, 1975) starring Philippe Noiret and Romy Schneider. He played a U-boat captain in another WWII drama The Sea Wolves (Andrew V. MacLaglen, 1980) starring Gregory Peck and Roger Moore. In the following decades he mainly worked for Austrian and German television. His later films include La 7ème cible/ The Seventh Target (Claude Pinoteau, 1984) with Lino Ventura, and Ilona und Kurti/ German Guy Sexy! The Story of Ilona and Kurti (Reinhard Schwabenitzky, 1992). In 1997, he was interviewed by the BBC for TV and radio when the Robinson Crusoe series was first released on video. Robert Hoffmann was last seen in the TV film 21 Liebesbriefe (2004).
Sources: AllMovie, Wikipedia (English, German and Italian) and IMDb.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 17, 2023) Fabien Cousteau, executor and founder of the Proteus Ocean Group (POG), and members of his team take a tour of various departments during a visit to the U.S. Naval Academy. Proteus is the world’s most advanced underwater research station, a collaborative global platform for researchers, academics, government agencies, and corporations to advance ocean science. U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are working with Proteus as part of their final capstone project.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jordyn Diomede)
- Photographer / Fotograf: Thomas "Wollbinho" Wollbeck
- Camera / Kamera: Canon EOS 1000D
- Lens / Objektiv: Tamron 18-270 F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC
- Creation Software / Erstellungssoftware: Adobe Photoshop 7.0
- Date (Original) / Datum (Original): 06.03.2011
- Place / Ort: Mannheim (Germany)
- Description / Beschreibung: Die Fassade eines Wohnhochhauses im Stadtteil Vogelstang / The facade of an apartment building in the district Vogelstang
This work of Thomas Wollbeck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Germany License.
1885 Abstract of Title 38 Belle View Road under Will of Stephen Cockburn, Ironmonger, Ramsgate, Kent.
23 August 1866 Conveyance between Revd.’ James Gillman of 14 Wimbledon Park Road, Wandsworth, Surrey and Stephen Cockburn of Ramsgate, Ironmonger. Stephen Cockburn was married to his wife, Sarah. (Note seems a bit of confusion in marriage dates… 5th July 1836 is the correct date of Stephen Cockburn’s marriage to Sarah Herridge at St. George's Church, Ramsgate, Kent) to sell 38 Belle View Road, formerly known as 2 Arklow Square.
17th January 1845 Indenture between, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Widow, John Hake, Grocer, Revd.’ James Gillman (then of the Parish of Barfreystone, Kent) Thomas Hodges Grove Snowden to sell to Stephen Cockburn.
List of previous occupants is given:
Thomas Grundy, James Craven, Louisa Holman.
2nd May 1873 Will of Stephen Cockburn known as the elder. Executors were wife, Sarah Cockburn, daughter Sarah Cockburn and Son Edward Cockburn. Who along with his other two sons Stephen Cockburn and George Cockburn were beneficiaries under the Will.
10th July 1877 Stephen Cockburn known as the elder died.
5th December 1884 his wife Sarah Cockburn died
The Burgtheater at Dr.-Karl -Lueger-Ring (from now on, 2013, Universitätsring) in Vienna is an Austrian Federal Theatre. It is one of the most important stages in Europe and after the Comédie-Française, the second oldest European one, as well as the greatest German speaking theater. The original 'old' Burgtheater at Saint Michael's square was utilized from 1748 until the opening of the new building at the ring in October, 1888. The new house in 1945 burnt down completely as a result of bomb attacks, until the re-opening on 14 October 1955 was the Ronacher serving as temporary quarters. The Burgtheater is considered as Austrian National Theatre.
Throughout its history, the theater was bearing different names, first Imperial-Royal Theater next to the Castle, then to 1918 Imperial-Royal Court-Burgtheater and since then Burgtheater (Castle Theater). Especially in Vienna it is often referred to as "The Castle (Die Burg)", the ensemble members are known as Castle actors (Burgschauspieler).
History
St. Michael's Square with the old K.K. Theatre beside the castle (right) and the Winter Riding School of the Hofburg (left)
The interior of the Old Burgtheater, painted by Gustav Klimt. The people are represented in such detail that the identification is possible.
The 'old' Burgtheater at St. Michael's Square
The original castle theater was set up in a ball house that was built in the lower pleasure gardens of the Imperial Palace of the Roman-German King and later Emperor Ferdinand I in 1540, after the old house 1525 fell victim to a fire. Until the beginning of the 18th Century was played there the Jeu de Paume, a precursor of tennis. On 14 March 1741 finally gave the Empress Maria Theresa, ruling after the death of her father, which had ordered a general suspension of the theater, the "Entrepreneur of the Royal Court Opera" and lessees of 1708 built theater at Kärntnertor (Carinthian gate), Joseph Karl Selliers, permission to change the ballroom into a theater. Simultaneously, a new ball house was built in the immediate vicinity, which todays Ballhausplatz is bearing its name.
In 1748, the newly designed "theater next to the castle" was opened. 1756 major renovations were made, inter alia, a new rear wall was built. The Auditorium of the Old Burgtheater was still a solid timber construction and took about 1200 guests. The imperial family could reach her royal box directly from the imperial quarters, the Burgtheater structurally being connected with them. At the old venue at Saint Michael's place were, inter alia, several works of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as Franz Grillparzer premiered .
On 17 February 1776, Emperor Joseph II declared the theater to the German National Theatre (Teutsches Nationaltheater). It was he who ordered by decree that the stage plays should not deal with sad events for not bring the Imperial audience in a bad mood. Many theater plays for this reason had to be changed and provided with a Vienna Final (Happy End), such as Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. From 1794 on, the theater was bearing the name K.K. Court Theatre next to the castle.
1798 the poet August von Kotzebue was appointed as head of the Burgtheater, but after discussions with the actors he left Vienna in 1799. Under German director Joseph Schreyvogel was introduced German instead of French and Italian as a new stage language.
On 12 October 1888 took place the last performance in the old house. The Burgtheater ensemble moved to the new venue at the Ring. The Old Burgtheater had to give way to the completion of Saint Michael's tract of Hofburg. The plans to this end had been drawn almost 200 years before the demolition of the old Burgtheater by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach.
The "new" K.K. Court Theatre (as the inscription reads today) at the Ring opposite the Town Hall, opened on 14 October 1888 with Grillparzer's Esther and Schiller's Wallenstein's Camp, was designed in neo-Baroque style by Gottfried Semper (plan) and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer (facade), who had already designed the Imperial Forum in Vienna together. Construction began on 16 December 1874 and followed through 14 years, in which the architects quarreled. Already in 1876 Semper withdrew due to health problems to Rome and had Hasenauer realized his ideas alone, who in the dispute of the architects stood up for a mainly splendid designed grand lodges theater.
However, created the famous Viennese painter Gustav Klimt and his brother Ernst Klimt and Franz Matsch 1886-1888 the ceiling paintings in the two stairwells of the new theater. The three took over this task after similar commissioned work in the city theaters of Fiume and Karlovy Vary and in the Bucharest National Theatre. In the grand staircase on the side facing the café Landtmann of the Burgtheater (Archduke stairs) reproduced Gustav Klimt the artists of the ancient theater in Taormina on Sicily, in the stairwell on the "People's Garden"-side (Kaiserstiege, because it was reserved for the emperor) the London Globe Theatre and the final scene from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". Above the entrance to the auditorium is Molière's The Imaginary Invalid to discover. In the background the painter immortalized himself in the company of his two colleagues. Emperor Franz Joseph I liked the ceiling paintings so much that he gave the members of the company of artists of Klimt the Golden Cross of Merit.
The new building resembles externally the Dresden Semper Opera, but even more, due to the for the two theaters absolutely atypical cross wing with the ceremonial stairs, Semper's Munich project from the years 1865/1866 for a Richard Wagner Festspielhaus above the Isar. Above the middle section there is a loggia, which is framed by two side wings, and is divided from a stage house with a gable roof and auditorium with a tent roof. Above the center house there decorates a statue of Apollo the facade, throning between the Muses of drama and tragedy. Above the main entrances are located friezes with Bacchus and Ariadne. At the exterior facade round about, portrait busts of the poets Calderon, Shakespeare, Moliere, Schiller, Goethe, Lessing, Halm, Grillparzer, and Hebbel can be seen. The masks which also can be seen here are indicating the ancient theater, furthermore adorn allegorical representations the side wings: love, hate, humility, lust, selfishness, and heroism. Although the theater since 1919 is bearing the name of Burgtheater, the old inscription KK Hofburgtheater over the main entrance still exists. Some pictures of the old gallery of portraits have been hung up in the new building and can be seen still today - but these images were originally smaller, they had to be "extended" to make them work better in high space. The points of these "supplements" are visible as fine lines on the canvas.
The Burgtheater was initially well received by Viennese people due to its magnificent appearance and technical innovations such as electric lighting, but soon criticism because of the poor acoustics was increasing. Finally, in 1897 the auditorium was rebuilt to reduce the acoustic problems. The new theater was an important meeting place of social life and soon it was situated among the "sanctuaries" of Viennese people. In November 1918, the supervision over the theater was transferred from the High Steward of the emperor to the new state of German Austria.
1922/1923 the Academy Theatre was opened as a chamber play stage of the Burgtheater. On 8th May 1925, the Burgtheater went into Austria's criminal history, as here Mentscha Karnitschewa perpetrated a revolver assassination on Todor Panitza.
The Burgtheater in time of National Socialism
The National Socialist ideas also left traces in the history of the Burgtheater. In 1939 appeared in Adolf Luser Verlag the strongly anti-Semitic characterized book of theater scientist Heinz Kindermann "The Burgtheater. Heritage and mission of a national theater", in which he, among other things, analyzed the "Jewish influence "on the Burgtheater. On 14 October 1938 was on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Burgtheater a Don Carlos production of Karl-Heinz Stroux shown that served Hitler's ideology. The role of the Marquis of Posa played the same Ewald Balser, who in a different Don Carlos production a year earlier (by Heinz Hilpert) at the Deutsches Theater in the same role with the sentence in direction of Joseph Goebbels box vociferated: "just give freedom of thought". The actor and director Lothar Müthel, who was director of the Burgtheater between 1939 and 1945, staged 1943 the Merchant of Venice, in which Werner Kraus the Jew Shylock clearly anti-Semitic represented. The same director staged after the war Lessing's parable Nathan the Wise. Adolf Hitler himself visited during the Nazi regime the Burgtheater only once (1938), and later he refused in pure fear of an assassination.
For actors and theater staff who were classified according to the Reich Citizenship Law of 1935 as "Jews ", were quickly imposed stage bans, within a few days, they were on leave, fired or arrested. The Burgtheater ensemble between 1938 and 1945 did not put up significant resistance against the Nazi ideology, the repertoire was heavily censored, only a few joined the Resistance, as Judith Holzmeister (then also at the People's Theatre engaged) or the actor Fritz Lehmann. Although Jewish members of the ensemble indeed have been helped to emigrate, was still an actor, Fritz Strassny, taken to a concentration camp and murdered there.
The Burgtheater at the end of the war and after the Second World War
In summer 1944, the Burgtheater had to be closed because of the decreed general theater suspension. From 1 April 1945, as the Red Army approached Vienna, camped a military unit in the house, a portion was used as an arsenal. In a bomb attack the house at the Ring was damaged and burned down on 12th April 1945 completely. Auditorium and stage were useless, only the steel structure remained. The ceiling paintings and part of the lobby were almost undamaged.
The Soviet occupying power expected from Viennese City Councillor Viktor Matejka to launch Vienna's cultural life as soon as possible again. The council summoned on 23 April (a state government did not yet exist) a meeting of all Viennese cultural workers into the Town Hall. Result of the discussions was that in late April 1945 eight cinemas and four theaters took up the operation again, including the Burgtheater. The house took over the Ronacher Theater, which was understood by many castle actors as "exile" as a temporary home (and remained there to 1955). This venue chose the newly appointed director Raoul Aslan, who championed particularly active.
The first performance after the Second World War was on 30 April 1945 Sappho by Franz Grillparzer directed by Adolf Rott from 1943 with Maria Eis in the title role. Also other productions from the Nazi era were resumed. With Paul Hoerbiger, a few days ago as Nazi prisoner still in mortal danger, was shown the play of Nestroy Mädl (Girlie) from the suburbs. The Academy Theatre could be played (the first performance was on 19 April 1945 Hedda Gabler, a production of Rott from the year 1941) and also in the ball room (Redoutensaal) at the Imperial Palace took place performances. Aslan the Ronacher in the summer had rebuilt because the stage was too small for classical performances. On 25 September 1945, Schiller's Maid of Orleans could be played on the enlarged stage.
The first new productions are associated with the name of Lothar Müthel: Everyone and Nathan the Wise, in both Raoul Aslan played the main role. The staging of The Merchant of Venice by Müthel in Nazi times seemed to have been fallen into oblivion.
Great pleasure gave the public the return of the in 1938 from the ensemble expelled Else Wohlgemuth on stage. She performaed after seven years in exile in December 1945 in Clare Biharys The other mother in the Academy Theater. 1951 opened the Burgtheater its doors for the first time, but only the left wing, where the celebrations on the 175th anniversary of the theater took place.
1948, a competition for the reconstruction was tendered: Josef Gielen, who was then director, first tended to support the design of ex aequo-ranked Otto Niedermoser, according to which the house was to be rebuilt into a modern gallery theater. Finally, he agreed but then for the project by Michael Engelhardt, whose plan was conservative but also cost effective. The character of the lodges theater was largely taken into account and maintained, the central royal box but has been replaced by two balconies, and with a new slanted ceiling construction in the audience was the acoustics, the shortcoming of the house, improved significantly.
On 14 October 1955 was happening under Adolf Rott the reopening of the restored house at the Ring. For this occasion Mozart's A Little Night Music was played. On 15 and on 16 October it was followed by the first performance (for reasons of space as a double premiere) in the restored theater: King Ottokar's Fortune and End of Franz Grillparzer, staged by Adolf Rott. A few months after the signing of the Austrian State Treaty was the choice of this play, which the beginning of Habsburg rule in Austria makes a subject of discussion and Ottokar of Horneck's eulogy on Austria (... it's a good country / Well worth that a prince bow to it! / where have you yet seen the same?... ) contains highly symbolic. Rott and under his successors Ernst Haeusserman and Gerhard Klingenberg the classic Burgtheater style and the Burgtheater German for German theaters were finally pointing the way .
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Burgtheater participated (with other well-known theaters in Vienna) on the so-called Brecht boycott.
Gerhard Klingenberg internationalized the Burgtheater, he invited renowned stage directors such as Dieter Dorn, Peter Hall, Luca Ronconi, Giorgio Strehler, Roberto Guicciardini and Otomar Krejča. Klingenberg also enabled the castle debuts of Claus Peymann and Thomas Bernhard (1974 world premiere of The Hunting Party). Bernhard was as a successor of Klingenberg mentioned, but eventually was appointed Achim Benning, whereupon the writer with the text "The theatrical shack on the ring (how I should become the director of the Burgtheater)" answered.
Benning, the first ensemble representative of the Burgtheater which was appointed director, continued Klingenberg's way of Europeanization by other means, brought directors such as Adolf Dresen, Manfred Wekwerth or Thomas Langhoff to Vienna, looked with performances of plays of Vaclav Havel to the then politically separated East and took the the public taste more into consideration.
Directorate Claus Peymann 1986-1999
Under the by short-term Minister of Education Helmut Zilk brought to Vienna Claus Peymann, director from 1986 to 1999, there was further modernization of the programme and staging styles. Moreover Peymann was never at a loss for critical contributions in the public, a hitherto unusual attitude for Burgtheater directors. Therefore, he and his program within sections of the audience met with rejection. The greatest theater scandal in Vienna since 1945 occurred in 1988 concerning the premiere of Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz (Place of the Heroes) drama which was fiercly fought by conservative politicians and zealots. The play deals with the Vergangenheitsbewältigung (process of coming to terms with the past) and illuminates the present management in Austria - with attacks on the then ruling Social Democratic Party - critically. Together with Claus Peymann Bernhard after the premiere dared to face on the stage applause and boos.
Bernard, to his home country bound in love-hate relationship, prohibited the performance of his plays in Austria before his death in 1989 by will. Peymann, to Bernhard bound in a difficult friendship (see Bernhard's play Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes eating with me) feared harm for the author's work, should his plays precisely in his homeland not being shown. First, it was through permission of the executor Peter Fabjan - Bernhard's half-brother - after all, possible the already in the schedule of the Burgtheater included productions to continue. Finally, shortly before the tenth anniversary of the death of Bernard it came to the revival of the Bernhard play Before retirement by the first performance director Peymann. The plays by Bernhard are since then continued on the programme of the Burgtheater and they are regularly newly produced.
In 1993, the rehearsal stage of the Castle theater was opened in the arsenal (architect Gustav Peichl). Since 1999, the Burgtheater has the operation form of a limited corporation.
Directorate Klaus Bachler 1999-2009
Peymann was followed in 1999 by Klaus Bachler as director. He is a trained actor, but was mostly as a cultural manager (director of the Vienna Festival) active. Bachler moved the theater as a cultural event in the foreground and he engaged for this purpose directors such as Luc Bondy, Andrea Breth, Peter Zadek and Martin Kušej.
Were among the unusual "events" of the directorate Bachler
* The Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries by Hermann Nitsch with the performance of 122 Action (2005 )
* The recording of the MTV Unplugged concert with Die Toten Hosen for the music channel MTV (2005, under the title available)
* John Irving's reading from his book at the Burgtheater Until I find you (2006)
* The 431 animatographische (animatographical) Expedition by Christoph Schlingensief and a big event of him under the title of Area 7 - Matthew Sadochrist - An expedition by Christoph Schlingensief (2006).
* Daniel Hoevels cut in Schiller's Mary Stuart accidentally his throat (December 2008). Outpatient care is enough.
Jubilee Year 2005
In October 2005, the Burgtheater celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its reopening with a gala evening and the performance of Grillparzer's King Ottokar's Fortune and End, directed by Martin Kušej that had been performed in August 2005 at the Salzburg Festival as a great success. Michael Maertens (in the role of Rudolf of Habsburg) received the Nestroy Theatre Award for Best Actor for his role in this play. Actor Tobias Moretti was awarded in 2006 for this role with the Gertrude Eysoldt Ring.
Furthermore, there were on 16th October 2005 the open day on which the 82-minute film "burg/private. 82 miniatures" of Sepp Dreissinger was shown for the first time. The film contains one-minute film "Stand portraits" of Castle actors and guest actors who, without saying a word, try to present themselves with a as natural as possible facial expression. Klaus Dermutz wrote a work on the history of the Burgtheater. As a motto of this season served a quotation from Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm: "It's so sad to be happy alone."
The Burgtheater on the Mozart Year 2006
Also the Mozart Year 2006 was at the Burgtheater was remembered. As Mozart's Singspiel Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 1782 in the courtyard of Castle Theatre was premiered came in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera on the occasion of the Vienna Festival in May 2006 a new production (directed by Karin Beier) of this opera on stage.
Directorate Matthias Hartmann since 2009
From September 2009 to 2014, Matthias Hartmann was Artistic Director of the Burgtheater. A native of Osnabrück, he directed the stage houses of Bochum and Zurich. With his directors like Alvis Hermanis, Roland Schimmelpfennig, David Bösch, Stefan Bachmann, Stefan Pucher, Michael Thalheimer, came actresses like Dorte Lyssweski, Katharina Lorenz, Sarah Viktoria Frick, Mavie Hoerbiger, Lucas Gregorowicz and Martin Wuttke came permanently to the Burg. Matthias Hartmann himself staged around three premieres per season, about once a year, he staged at the major opera houses. For more internationality and "cross-over", he won the Belgian artist Jan Lauwers and his Need Company as "Artists in Residence" for the Castle, the New York group Nature Theater of Oklahoma show their great episode drama Live and Times of an annual continuation. For the new look - the Burgtheater presents itself without a solid logo with word games around the BURG - the Burgtheater in 2011 was awarded the Cultural Brand of the Year .
Since 2014, Karin Bergmann is the commander in chief.
"Matthew Taylor Born 2 February 1837. Died 9 July 1889
Active: 1861 - 1889
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, monumental sculptor, stone carver
Born and died in Leeds, Yorkshire. He was the son of William Taylor (c.1793-1874, born in Grewelthorpe, Yorkshire) a moderately successful joiner and carpenter. Judging by Matthew's estate he ran a very successful business, possibly as a monumental or architectural sculptor as well as a maker of busts. One of Taylor's executors was a neighbor in the village of Arthington, William Henry Beever, architect. Matthew left five children, his oldest surviving son, Francis B Taylor (born c.1869 in Leeds) is listed as an artist in the Census Returns of 1891.
This record includes information supplied by Kurt Etchingham.
Wealth at death: £2,437 14s. 5d.
Probate date: 1 August 1889
Works
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Baron de Vasceoncellos - Bust
Medallion Portrait (Rev. W. Busfield)
Medallion Portrait (W. E. Gladstone)
Portrait Bust of the Artist's Son
1880 (Presumed)
Mr Geo. Broughton - Bust
1880 (Presumed)
Portrait of the Artist's Father - Bust
1880 (Presumed)
St George and the Dragon
1880 (Presumed)
Locations
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Address 12 Tolson Street Leeds | View on map
1861 (Circa)
Address 6 Hillary Street Leeds | View on map
1871 (Circa) - 1876 (Circa)
Address St Peters Cottage Arthington | View on map
1881 (Circa) - 1889
Place of death
Conducted a business at 52 Cookridge Street Leeds | View on map
1881
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1889
Multiple works
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor and Stone Carver'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Sculptor'
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Catalogue of the First Spring Exhibition 1880
1880
Cat. Nos. 716, 718, 721, 733, 774, pp. 62, 63, 64, 67, xxiv
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1889
1889
Cat. No. Cases F, S, pp. 88, 90
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
RG09 piece 3393 folio 113 page 20
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 4566; Folio: 49; Page: 14; GSU roll: 847143
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 4335; Folio: 105; Page: 17; GSU roll: 1342035
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 3526 folio 85 page 5 for information about Taylor's family after his death
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Matthew Taylor Estimated birth year: abt 1837 Year of Registration: 1889 Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep Age at Death: 52 District: Wharfedale County: Yorkshire - West Riding, West Yorkshire Volume: 9a Page: 97
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941
2010
Name: Matthew Taylor Probate Date: 1 Aug 1889 Death Date: 9 Jul 1889 Death Place: York, Yorkshire, England Registry: Wakefield
Kelly's Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, 1881
1881
p. 429
McCorquodale & Co.'s Topographical and Commercial Directory of Leeds and Neighbourhood, 1876
1876
p. 436
West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
2011
Name: Matthew Taylor Birth Date: 2 Feb 1837 Parish: Leeds, St Peter (Leeds Parish Church) Baptism Date: 26 Feb 1837 Father's name: William Taylor Mother's name: Hannah Taylor West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: RDP68/3A/10.
Citing this record
'Matthew Taylor', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1204818972, accessed 25 May 2012]"
1705-1759 Thomas Spencer of London, merchant, who by his industry, candour and integrity acquired an affluent fortune with unblemished reputation. Happy in the acquisition but more happy in rendering it conducive to the happiness of others . By exercise of the dictates of his generous beneficent heart n the laudable virtues of friendship and humanity"
monument signed by "Gyl Tyler ..sculpt"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyler_(architect)
the memorial implies he left much to charity, but he willed his fortune to his family and friends.
Will of Thomas Spencer of St Mary, Bothaw, City of London. Merchant.
He left the bulk of his Estate to his sister, Esther Spencer, spinster: he left her all his possessions in the Manor of Weston in Holderness, Yorkshire, including Court Leet, Court baron, farms, etc. Also, £8,000.
He wishes his friends, James Norman, and John Cornwall, of London, merchants, and George Clifford his co-partner in trade – to be the Executors of his Will, but they declined in favour of the Testator’s sister, Esther when the time came.
His other property, situated in the County of York, and in the counties of Durham, Essex, Kent, and ‘elsewhere’ he left in trust to his 3 named Executors to whom £100 would be paid each, the arrangement being that his brother Richard Spencer & his heirs would enjoy these Estates.
To his niece, Dorothy Askew (late Boulby) now wife of Henry Askew - £5,000. (Dorothy & Henry were later to erect an expensive monument by Flaxman to his brother Richard Spencer 1784 at Hornchurch Essex www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5365Z9 )
Brother-in-Law, John Jefferson - £3,000.
Brother-in-Law, Adam Boulby Father of his niece, Dorothy Askew) - £200.
Uncle, Ralph Ward, Esq. - £200.
Cousin, William Gansell, Esq. - £200.
Cousins, Ralph, Thomas, and Rebecca Ward - £200 each.
Cousin, George Jackson - £200. And to his brother, Ralph Jackson, and three sisters, Esther, Hannah, and Dorothy - £100 each.
Cousin, Francis Fox - £500, and to his brother John Fox, and his sister, Mary Saunders - £100 each.
Cousin, William Manley, and his sister Rebecca - £100 each.
--- Cooper, spinster, residing in my house with my family/with my sister Esther Spencer - £1,000. Christian Poppe, my book-keeper (if in my service at the time of my decease) - £100.
To each clerk over 12 months in his service at the time of death - £50.
To the Poor of the Parish of Guisborough, Yorks., “where I was born” - £50
To Edward Dans, formerly of Riga, merchant, but now of Shottesbrook, Berks. One annuity of £50.
Will dated 7th October, 1758.
(Also he left all his Estates at Hornchurch, Essex, to his 3 named Executors ).