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Loch Lomond is a freshwater loch lying on the Highland Boundary Fault, the boundary between the western lowlands of Central Scotland and the southern Highlands. It is 39 kilometres (24 mi) long and between 1.21 kilometres (0.75 mi) and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) wide. It has an average depth of about 37 metres (120 ft), and a maximum depth of about 190 metres (620 ft). Its surface area measures 71 km2 (27 sq mi), and it has a volume of 2.6 km3 (0.62 cu mi). Of all lakes in Great Britain, it is the largest by surface area, and the second largest (after Loch Ness) by water volume.[1] Within the United Kingdom
HMS FORMIDABLE an Illustrious-Class Fleet Aircraft Carrier ordered on 19th March 1937 from Harland and Wolff Ltd. at Belfast under the 1937 Programme. The ship was laid down on 17th June that year.
The launch of the 23,000 ton aircraft carrier HMS Formidable at Harland and Wolff's East Yard on Thursday 17th August, 1939 was marred by a fatal accident. An accident occurred just before the launch ceremony was to begin - the wooden cradle supporting the ship collapsed and the ship slid down the launch way while workmen were still underneath and around the ship
A report of the incident in the following day's Northern Whig and Belfast Post.
Mrs Elizabeth Kirk (47), of 21, Major Street, Templemore Avenue, Belfast was struck by a flying bolt and received a fractured skull. She died in the Royal Victoria Hospital. Her husband and Mary Walker, 36, Colville Street, Strandtown were treated for head and leg injuries caused by hurtling planks but were allowed home after treatment. Another twenty people were treated at first aid posts.
Harland and Wolff were to hold an enquiry to find out why the vessel made her way into the water half an hour before the scheduled time for the launch. She left behind her a trail of bolts, iron bars, nuts, planks of wood and poppets. The workmen who were removing the shores in preparation for the launch had to dash for safety.
(outside Morthal)
Arynn's chain claw proved to be a formidable weapon against a small army of Dremora.
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Some background:
The origins of the mighty Hawker Harpy date back until the late 1940ies, when the British MoD issued a specification for "an interceptor fighter with supersonic performance" under the handle F.23/49. In May 1949 OR.268 was prepared and finally issued in April 1950. It called for a twin-engine single-seat supersonic fighter to operate in Europe and desirably any other part of the world. The initial design requirements were not too demanding: a top speed of at least Mach 1.2 was called for, with climb to 50.000' (15.240m) in no more than 360 seconds. The fighter had to have a rate of climb of at least 1.000'/min (305m/min) and a minimum endurance from take-off to landing of at least 60min. At least two 30mm Aden cannon were to be carried.
At this stage, two companies submitted proposals: English Electric with the P.1, which should become the eventual winning design as the formidable Mach 2-capable BAC Lightning, and Hawker with the P.1082 and P.1086 designs. P.1082 was a sleek, supersonic development of the Hawker Hunter, which was rejected, as it only featured a single, reheated engine and too little future development potential. P.1086 vaguely resembled the later Soviet Su-15 interceptor with two engines side by side in the rear fuselage, fed by lateral air intakes and featured a cropped delta wing, paired with swept tail surfaces. P.1086 was rejected, too, as it fell short in performance in comparison with the P.1, even though the range would have been better.
As the Lightning entered production and service after a long and troublesome development phase until the late 1950ies, technical advances and new threats through supersonic bombers like the Tupolev Tu-22, armed with long range air-to-ground missiles had emerged. While the Lightning was an excellent interceptor with an outstanding rate of climb and a top speed of more than Mach 2.0at height, it had several shortcomings that could never really be rectified: one flaw was its limited payload of two guided AAMs (initially IR-guided Firestreaks, later radar-guided Red Top AAMs), but its biggest shortcoming was the very limited range that left esp. in the northern regions of Great Britain a defense gap.
This led in in 1955 to the requirement for a 'Day-Night High Altitude Fighter Aircraft' under OR.239/F.155, which was to be able to operate against enemy bombers coming in at 60.000' (18.288m) altitude and at Mach 1.3, with service entry as soon as possible and not beyond 1963 (the BAC Lightning was considered to be sufficient until about 1960). A new radar was to be developed for the aircraft, operated by a second crew member.
Almost all British manufacturers submitted designs, including Hawker with several proposals like the P.1103, a large aircraft based on the Hunter with a chin air intake and missile rails on its wing tips. There was also the P.1110, a much revised P.1086 design - basically an enlarged and much refined version of the 1950 concept, but now with an area-ruled fuselage and powered by two Sapphire Sa.7LR engines, rated at 11.000lb (48.9kN) dry thrust and at 15.400lb (68.4kN) with full afterburner and optimized for high altitude duty.
The P.1110 was still a single-seater, though, equipped with the same AI.23B radar as the BAC Lightning, which it was to support, not to replace. The Ferranti AI.23 radar supported autonomous search, automatic target tracking, and ranging for all weapons, while the pilot attack sight provided gyroscopically derived lead angle and backup stadiametric ranging for gun firing. The radar and gunsight were collectively designated the AIRPASS: Airborne Interception Radar and Pilot Attack Sight System.
The P.1110’s selling point was its long range (the combat radius exceeded the Lightning’s maximum range), coupled with a top speed of more than Mach 2 and the ability to carry up to six (normal payload would be four) AAMs, plus two internal cannons. Another factor that made the Hawker aircraft attractive was that it was a simple design, bearing no visible development risk, and that the bigger radome offered the option to install not only a larger antenna, but also offered the possibility to install an overall much more powerful radar system that would be more suitable for the primary long-range interception task of the type.
Even though Fairey’s (based on the famous Delta research aircraft) and Armstrong Whitworth’s designs were officially favored, things went in a totally different direction: in early 1957 the MoD issued its infamous White Paper that basically rang the death knell to all new fighter developments - axing the F.155 program in favor of ground-based missile defense systems – the manned fighter was considered obsolete over night!
Anyway, things would not change that fast in real life, and this gave way for the “last manned fighter” for the RAF: the P.1110. It was clear that it was just a stopgap solution, as the Lightning would, if any interceptor development was cut down, be the only operative interceptor for Great Britain in the near future, leaving the aforementioned weak spots esp. at the northern borders. A foreign potential option for the required aircraft, the mighty CF-105 'Arrow' from Canada, had also been recently cancelled, so the modified P.1110 was seen as the most cost-efficient domestic solution.
Work started fast and at good pace: the first P.1110 prototype (a total of four were to be built, one of them only a static airframe for ground tests) already made its maiden flight in September 1959. As it relied on proven avionics the type became ready for service in early 1961. The new aircraft was christened ‘Harpy F.1’ and it served alongside the BAC Lightning interceptors on long range patrol flights, high altitude interceptions and in QRA service. It partly replaced older Gloster Javelin versions in the all-weather fighter role.
Beyond the primary missile-toting interceptor role the Harpy could also carry an impressive load of up to 10.000 lb (4.540 kg) of other ordnance, including Matra rocket pods and iron or cluster bombs of up to 1.000 lb (454 kg) caliber.
The Harpy was a big aircraft and not really suited for dogfight scenarios, but it had - in contrast to the Lightning - a spacious cockpit which made long flights agreeable. Take-off and landing speeds were comparatively high, though, with a take-off speed of 231 mph (370 km/h). While the controls were responsive and precise, the aircraft was unforgiving of pilot error. Indeed, the type's attrition rate was high: 18 aircraft would be lost through accidents.
As only 65 were built, operating the type was costly, and towards the late 1960s already a more economical solution was searched for. The aging Lightning fleet also started to call for a replacement. The pure missile air defense had quickly turned out to be a political error, but in its wake it had caused severe consequences for Britain's aircraft industry, as aircraft development had been cut back. Eventually, as domestic types were lacking, the Spey-engined McDonnell F-4 Phantom II entered RAF service (after having been bought for the Royal Navy in the first place) in 1969.
Both Lightning and Harpy suffered in service under the high work load for the pilot, who had not only to engage a potential enemy at high speed but also had to operate the radar and weapons system at the same time. Another limiting factor for both types' effectiveness was the more and more obsolete Firestreak and Red Top missiles, which only had an effective range of up to 7.5 miles (12 km) and relied on IR homing. Plans to outfit the Lightning with American Falcons, Sparrows or even Sidewinders in 1958 were fruitless (either necessitating an altogether new fire control system or limiting the aircraft's performance), so that the Harpy would not benefit from more capable weapons, too - even though it offered the better development basis with its bigger radome, range and payload.
Only few hardware updates were actually made during the Hawker Harpy’s active service period, including the addition of a removable, fixed in-flight refueling probe, an improved escape system along with additional room for more electronic counter-measures equipment. By 1973 all machines were modified accordingly and re-designated F.1A.
Both Harpy and Lightning were hard to replace, though, as the RAF Phantoms initially also had to fill out an attack and reconnaissance role (a gap which was to be filled with the SEPECAT Jaguar), so both interceptors soldiered on until the early 1980ies. Both were replaced by the Phantoms, the large Harpy made its final flight in May 1982 while the last Lightning was retired in 1988, as the Tornado ADV was under development and would unite what even the couple of Harpy and Lighning never achieved in their service career.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 21.52 m (70 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 9.34 m (30 ft 8 in)
Height: 5.41 m (17 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 42.2 m² (454 ft 3 in)
Empty weight: 10,371 kg (22,864 lb)
Loaded weight: 15,288 kg (33,704 lbf)
Max. take-off weight: 18,879 kg (41,621 lbf)
Powerplant:
2× reheated Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire Sa.7LR engines, rated at 11.000lb (48.9kN) dry thrust and at 15.400lb (68.4kN) with afterburner
Performance:
Maximum speed: Mach 2.1
Combat radius with 5 min combat: 647 nmi (746 mi, 1,200 km)
Ferry range: 1.403 nmi (1.615 mi, 2.600 km) with 3 external fuel tanks
Service ceiling: 18.100 m (59.383 ft)
Rate of climb: 83 m/s (16.405 ft/min)
Wing loading: 447.4 kg/m² (MAX T-O Weight) (91.63 lb/ft² (MAX T-O Weight))
Thrust/weight: 0.5; 0.91 with afterburner (MAX T-O Weight)
Armament:
2× Aden 30mm (1.18”) cannons under the air intakes with 120 RPG
7× hard points (6 under wing and one centerline hard point) for air-to-air missiles (Firestreak or, from 1965 on, primarily Red Top), fuel on three wet pylons, or bombs, Matra pods with 18 unguided 68mm SNEB rockets, for a total maximum load of 10.000 lb (4.540 kg)
The kit and its assembly:
Hopefully royalists will forgive me for this... but did you ever see an aircraft and get the spontaneous idea what it actually could be or have been? Well, the Chinese J-8II is such a case. In fact, the J-8 was born as a scaled-up MiG-21F with two engines, and it was later modified to carry a nose radome and lateral air intakes. Somehow this large jet fighter had IMHO a British look about it… I couldn't help, it HAD to become an RAF aircraft! Totally anachronistic, but worth the try ;).
Anyway, it is still SO retro that I had to put even the modernized version back in time by about 20 years, when it would have been up to date. Just for reference: imagine that the real J-8II entered service in China when the Harpy was retired after 20 years of service in my fictional background story…
Well, to be honest I have had this one on my idea list for a long time, but as it would ‘just’ be an almost OOB build I always held in back, favoring more complicated works. Anyway, as I had a Trumpeter J-8II kit in store AND appropriate decals I decided to work the Harpy out as the first kit in 2014.
As already mentioned, this is an almost OOB build of the Trumpeter J-8II (NATO code 'Finback B'), with only minor modifications. The kit is very nice: Fit is good, you get recessed panel lines, as many details as you can ask for – just some fit issues with the fuselage halves and slight sink holes at the air intakes. While you need some putty, anyway, the thing goes together very easily.
Personal mods to create the Hawker Harpy include a Matchbox pilot figure for the cockpit, two fins ('Finback A' style) instead of the J-8II's single MiG-23 style folding fin, new drop tanks (from a Matchbox Hawker Hunter, with fins added) and four Red Top missiles (from an Eastern Express Sea Vixen) – all for a convincing RAF look.
Other small mods include e. g. getting rid of some typical Soviet-style antennae (even though I kept the almost iconic anti-flutter weights on the tailplane) and the GSh-23-2 cannon fairing under the fuselage, which was replaced by two single gun fairings for 30mm Aden cannons under the air intakes.
Painting and markings:
Classic RAF colors from the Sixties, with Dark Slate Gray/Dark Sea Gray from above and Light Aircraft Gray below (Humbrol 163, 164 and 166, respectively). The aircraft received a light black ink wash in order to emphasize the kit’s fine engraved panel lines, as well as some dry-painting with lighter shades (including Dark Slate Gray/Dark Sea Gray from Modelmaster – these tones are a tad lighter than the Humbrol counterparts, and Humbrol 196, RAL 7035).
The cockpit interior was painted in dark gray, while the landing gear wells and the other interiors were left in Aluminum. The landing gear was painted in Steel, the wheel discs white and the air brakes in red from the inside.
Decals/markings come from an Xtradecal sheet for RAF Phantom FG.1/FGR.2s, "XL196" is, AFAIK, a ‘free’ (never used) RAF serial number that fits around 1962. Some additional stencils and markings were painted onto the fuselage by brush.
After decal application the kit received an overall coat of semi-gloss Tamiya acrylic varnish.
The Hawker Harpy is/was simple kit travesty, but IMHO the resulting ‘British product’ looks very convincing and late-1950ies style?
Oi gente,
Continuo usando antigos que dispensam apresentações ;)
Até pensei em usar um de base, mas acabei deixando só ele.
Três camadas para fechar direitinho e tc porque esmaltei durante a madrugada.
3x Formidable!
TC Impala (hipo)
24 hours before, I had not heard of Frenze, or knew that it lay in Norfolk. A friend had posted a shot of St Andrew from the air, and finding that it ay within 2 miles of the A143, and a short detour from the route, I thought I would go
I was stuck in a long line of traffic leading into Diss, but able to take a turning to the right off the main road, then take a left turn along a farm track. The sat nav suggested it was some distance off.
Through fields and through a wood, until the road stopped at a farmyard with some abandoned industrial units and a farmhouse. But beyond was St Andrew.
Small, and perfectly formed, St Andrew reminded me of several of the untouched two cell Norman churches back in Kent, a church and yet so much like a farm building too.
St Andrew despite being small has lots of interest; ancient glass, unusual box pews, a formidable pulpit, a grand coat of arms and two good brasses.
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The heaviest snow in East Anglia that winter fell in early March. We had a new car to try out - we hadn't planned on this, but the previous one had died on the way back from Cambridge, the camshaft exploding into the engine and causing several thousand pounds worth of damage. After a few sleepless nights, we decided to cut our losses, and so here we were on an icy Sunday afternoon threading through wide flat fields to the hills near the border.
We parked near an old maltings which styled itself 'Diss Business Centre'. That town was just over the rise, but in fact we could have been miles away, in the middle of nowhere. There was no one about as we set off on foot along a track into the woods towards Frenze Hall.
The winter was at its barest. Although most of the snow had now melted, nothing had yet regrown after the winter silence. A few miserable birds chattered at us, a rabbit bolted. the coop coop of an occasional pheasant came from the copse. Eventually, the track came out into an empty farmyard, apparently abandoned, although the farm house was still occupied, and in one corner of the yard, on a rise behind an old wooden fence, sat the church of St Andrew, Frenze.
St Andrew is a curious looking structure. Effectively, it is just the small nave of a formerly longer church, propped up but still leaning all over the place. Obviously redundant, it is in the tender care of the Churches Conservation Trust (the key hangs outside the farmhouse door during daylight hours) and would just be a beautiful, unspoiled hidden corner of Norfolk if it were not for one very curious thing - this church has no less than seven figure brasses, more than just about any other church in East Anglia, as well as other memorial inscriptions. An extraordinary find in such a place.
They are all between eighteen and twenty-four inches tall. Mostly, they are to the Blenerhaysett, or Blennerhassett, family and their relatives - a most un-East Anglian name; in the Paston letters, Sir John scoffs that Ralph Blenerhaysett is a name to start a hare. They came from Cumbria, and were Lords of the Manor here. Six of the figures are still in situ on the floor. They are (top row above) vowess Joan Braham, died 1519, in cloak and girdle; Jane Blenerhaysett, 1521, in kennel headdress; John Blenerhaysett, her husband, also 1521, in armour, with sword; the already mentioned Ralph Blenerhaysett, 1475, in full mail. The first and last in the second row are an exquisite shroud brass to Thomas Hobson, and Anne Duke, also in a kennel headress. Other inscriptions also survive, and there are replicas of others on the wall. As I say, extraordinary stuff.
Even if there were no brasses, you would want to come here. Although the porch, font and a few other features survive from medieval times, the overwhelming flavour of the inside is of the 17th century - a silvery white family pew faces across to the contemporary pulpit, clearly by the same hand.
Everything is simple, but touched down the long years - the plain altar, bearing a medieval mensa, is typical of this. Boards from a royal arms hang above the south door - were they once overpainted with something else? There are two piscinas set into windowsills, one each side of the nave. Two smug little monkeys on a single bench stare out at all of this. What a special place.
Simon Knott, March 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/frenze/frenze.htm
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Was always one manor, (fn. 1) which in King Edward's time was held by Edric, (fn. 2) of Edric, for one carucate; and in the Conqueror's time by Hubert, of Robert Malet, lord of Eye; it was then worth 15s. per annum, being five furlongs long, and four broad, and paid 3d. Danegeld.
It was always held of Eye honour at one quarter of a knight's fee, and paid x.s. relief. I do not meet with any lords' names (fn. 3) before 1280, (fn. 4) when John de Ludham was lord and patron, whose family took their sirname from a village so called in Suffolk, in Wilford hundred, (fn. 5) which they held many ages. In 1297, it was settled on
William de Ludham, and Alice his wife, and John their son, and his heirs. In 1329,
Joan, wife of Sir John Ludham, and John Lowdham, Knt. son of Thomas, was 21 years old, and held this manor; and in 1336, purchased several large parcels of land of Ralph de Shimpling, and Katerine his wife, being the first of this family that had Boyland's manor; both which, together with this advowson, in 1343, they settled by fine on themselves, and the heirs of John; Edmund de Ufford le Frere, and Peter de Teye, being feoffees. In 1351,
Sir John, son and heir of Sir John de Lowdham, and Joan his wife, held this and Boyland manor in Osmundeston, Frenze and Stirston; he died in 1355, and Joan his wife had it to her death in 1371, and held it of Edmund, son of Sir Thomas de Ufford, lord of Eye.
John, son of Thomas de Lowdham, Knt. inherited, and died in 1373; and
Sir Thomas de Lowdham, Knt. brother and heir of John, son of Thomas, son of John, and Joan his wife, held it, jointly with Maud his wife; he died in 1385, and
Sir Robert Corbet, senior, Knt. held it, as guardian to John Lowdham, who dying, left it to his wife;
And in 1401, the lady which was the wife of Sir Robert Corbet, senior, Knt. held Boyland's in dower, and Sir Robert Corbet, junior, her son, held Frenze, during the minority of John Lowdham, son of Thomas de Lowdham and Maud his wife, who, when his father died, was but seven years old. This John died 28th April, 1428; Alice his wife surviving him: he left only one daughter,
Joan, then 14 years old, married to Thomas Hevenyngham, Esq. and after that to Ralph Blaverhasset, Esq. both which she outlived, not dying till June 20, 1501, being 97 years of age: she was seized of Boyland's, the other moiety of which was granted by John Lowdham to John Woodhouse.
John Blaverhasset was her son and heir, being 77 years old at his mother's death. This is a very ancient family, taking their name from Bleverseta, or Bleverhayset, in Cumberland, where the eldest branch continued a long time. In 1382, Alan Bleverhasset was mayor of the city of Carlisle, as was John, in 1430. (fn. 6) In 1412, Ralph Bleverhayset was parliament-man for that city, and so was Thomas, in 1584. In 1510, this John died, in the 87th year of his age, seized of Frenze, and a moiety of Boyland's; he had two wives; Jane daughter of Thomas Heigham of Heigham Green in Suffolk, Esq. by whom he had SirThomas, his son and heir, now 49 years of age; and Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Tindall of Hockwold in Norfolk, Knt. He came from South-hill in Bedfordshire, to Frenze, which estate he gave to John, his son by his second wife, who dying without issue, it was divided among his four sisters,Margaret, married to Robert Warner of Besthorp, after to William Drury of the same; Jane, to Sir Phillip Calthorp; Anne, to Sir Henry Grey of Wrest in Bedfordshire, Knt.; Ellen to Miles Hobert of Plumstede in Norfolk, Esq. second son of Sir James Hobart, Knt.
Sir Thomas died seized of Frenze and Boyland's, June 27, 1531, leaving
George, his eldest son by his first wife, his heir: he died in 1543, and by his will gave Frenze to Margaret his wife for life, and Boyland's moiety to Mary, his daughter and heiress, then married to Thomas Culpepper, Esq. she being to have Frenze also at Margaret's death. This Mary, by fine, settled Frenze on
Francis Bacon, Esq. her second husband, and Edmund his son, for their lives, both which had it, Edmund Bacon of Harleston being seized of it in 1572: after whose death it reverted to
John Bleverhasset, who had enjoyed Boyland's ever since the death of the said Mary. This John was brother to George, her father: he sold the moiety of Boyland's to Sir Thomas Cornwaleis, Knt. and his heirs, but Frenze continued in this family; for in 1587,
George Bleverhasset held it; and in 1595,
Samuel Bleverhasset. How or when it went from this family I do not find; but in 1666, 24th Nov.
Richard Nixon, Esq. died seized, and.
Richard was his son and heir, whose son, Diamond Nixon, sold it to
Sir Robert Kemp, Bart. whose son, Sir Robert, is now lord and patron. [1730.]
The Church is a small building, of equal height, covered with tile; and having no steeple, the bell hangs on the outside of the roof, at the west end: there is no partition between the church and chancel, but there is a beam fixed across the east chancel window, on which the rood was conveniently placed. The church is about 24 yards long, and 7 yards wide; the south porch is tiled. It is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, (fn. 7) as appears from the will of Ralph Bleverhasset, who desired to be buried in the chancel of St. Andrew at Frenze. The meanness of the fabrick hath preserved the inscriptions from being reaved, for it looks like a barn, at a distance. In the chancel, according to his will, is buried Ralph Bleverhasset, Esq. whose effigies, standing upon a lion, still remains on a stone, and this inscription:
Hic iacct venerabilis Uir Radulphus Bleverhansett Armiger qui obiit riiio die Mensis Novembris Ao dni. Mo CCCC lrrbo. cuisu Anime propicietur Deus Amen.
There are four shields still remaining.
1. Bleverhasset with an annulet quartering Orton;
2. Ditto impaling Lowdham;
3. As the second;
4. Lowdham single.
The inscription for his wife is now lost, but was, as we learn from Mr. Anstis's MSS. (marked G. 6, fol. 39.) as follows:
Here lyeth Mrs. Joane Bleverhasset, the Wife of Ralph Bleverhasset, Esq. the Daughter and Heir of John Lowdham, who died the 20th Dan of June 1501.
The same MSS. hath the following inscription, now gone:
"Here lyeth the venerable Gentleman John Blaverhasset, Esq; who died the 27th of March, in the Year of our Lord, 1514."
On a stone by the south door is the effigies of a woman bidding her beads, with three shields under the inscription.
1. Hasset with an annulet, quartering Lowdham;
2. Ditto impaling Tindall, quartering Fecklin;
3. Tindall quartering Orton and Scales.
Pran for the Soule of Jane Bleverhayssett, Wedow, late Wyf onto John Blaverhayssett, Esquier, Whiche Jane departed oute of this present Lyf, the bi Day of October, the Yere of our Lord God, M y rri on whose Soule Jhu have merry, Amen.
On a stone at the east end,
Here lyeth Sir Thomas Bleuerhayssette, Knyght, which decessyd the ryii Dan of June, the Yere of our Lorde M yo rrri. and rrriii Yere of the Reigne of our Sobe raygne Lord Kyng Henry the viiith, whois Soule God Pardon.
At each corner is a coat:
1. Hasset with an annulet, quartering Orton, impaling Lowdham and Keldon, quartered.
2. Hasset and Lowdham quartered, impaling Heigham, his first wife.
3. Hasset, Lowdon, Orton, and Keldon, quartered, impaling Braham, with a crescent.
4. Hasset, and the three quartered as in the last, impaling two lions passant.
His effigies still remains, in complete armour, having a surcoat of his arms, viz. Bleverhasset with the annulet, (which this branch always bare for difference,) with his quarterings, Lowdham, Orton, and Kelvedon; (or Keldon;) under his head lies his crest, viz. a fox passant.
On a marble three yards long, and a yard and half wide, is this on a brass plate:
Here lyeth Dame Margaret Bleverhayset, Wedowe. late Wyf to Syr Thomas Bleverhayset off Frens, Knyght, Domghter to John Braham of Metheryngset, Esquyer, who bad Yssue by the said Sur Thomas, two Sonnes, Thomas a Pryst, and John Bleverhayset of Bargham, by Beclys in Suff, and fyve Dowghters, that ys Elizabeth Fyrst married to Lyonell Lowth, after to Francis Clopton, Agnes married to Syr Antony Rows, Knyght, Anne married fyrst to George Duke, after to Peter Rede, Margaret fyrst married to John Gosnold, after to Antony Myngfyld, who dyed the rriii of Julye in the Yere of our Lorde, 1561.
The first coat is lost, but was Braham impaling Reydon.
2. Hasset, Lowdham, Keldon, Orton, Skelton, and Hasset, impaling Braham; the third is lost.
Adjoining is another stone, having had two coats, which are reaved, as is the effigies of the man; that of the woman remains; her head lies on a pillow, and her beads hang before her; the two remaining shields have these arms:
1. Duke quartering Banyard, with the difference of two annulets interlaced on the fess.
Park and Ilketshall impaling Hasset, quartering Lowdham, Keldon, Orton, and Skelton.
2. Hasset, and his quarterings, as before.
Mr. Le Neve says, that the two coats lost were,
1. Duke and his quarterings, as before.
2. Duke, &c. impaling Jenney, quartering Buckle and Leiston. Buckle, or, a chevron between three buckles.
Heare uner lieth George Duke, Esquyre. who marryed Anne, the Dowghter of Syr Thomas Bleverhaysset, Knyght, the whiche George died the rrbi day of July, in the Yere of our Lorde God, a. M. CCCCC. li. whos Sowle God Pardon, Amen.
Another stone hath its inscription torn off, and one shield; the other is
Cornwaleis impaling Froxmere.
The next hath a man in armour, his sword hanging before him on a belt, his hands erected.
Hasset quarters Lowdham and Orton; Orton or Lowthe impales Heigham.
Hic iacet venerabilis bir Johannis Bleber hayset, Armiger, qui viresimo viiio die Mens: Novemb: Ao Dni. Mo bo r. cuius anime propicietur Deus.
On another stone: crest, a fox sedant on a wreath, under it, in a lozenge:
1. Hasset, Lowdham, Orton, Keldon, Skelton, Duke, frette - - - Lowthe.
2. Culpepper quartering - - - - a chevron between eleven martlets, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, impaling Hasset, and quarterings as before.
3. Bacon impaling Hasset and quarterings.
4. Hasset and quarterings.
5. Duke, with an annulet, quartering three pelicans vulning themselves, and - - - frette - - -
6. Orton.
Mariæ filiæ et hæredi unicæ Georgij Bleverhasset, Militis inaurati Enuptæ primo Thomæ Culpeper, Armigero, qui hic, postea Francisco Bacon, Armigero, Qui Petistiræ in Comitat: Suff. tumulatur, sine prole, Defuncte vii Septembr. 1587, Ætatis suæ, 70. Viduæ, Piæ, Castæ, Hospitali, Benignæ! Joannes Cornwaleis, et Joannes Bleverhasset, Memoriæ et amoris ergo posuerunt.
On a brass fixed to the north chancel wall:
Here under lyethe Thomazin Platers, Daughter of George Duke, Esquyer, and Wife to William Platers, Sonne t Heier of Thomas Platers of Soterley, Esquier, whiche Thomazin dyed the 23d day of December, in the second Yere of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lady Quene Elizabethe, Ao 1560.
Platers, arg. three bends wavy az.
Platers impaling Duke and his quarterings.
More towards the east, on the said wall, remains the impression of a brass effigies, and inscription now lost, but in a MSS. (marked E. 26, fol. 23.) in Mr. Anstis's hands we have the following account:
Platers's arms and Duke's:
Orate pro animabus Willi Platers et Thomazin uroris suæ filiæ Duke
As also of this, now lost:
Orate pro Domina Johanna Braham, vidua ur: Johns: Braham de Lowdham, Armigeri.
Braham impales Duke.
On a stone having the effigies of a woman in her winding sheet, bidding her beads:
Hic iaret tumulata domina Johanna Braham, vidua ar Deo dirata olim uror Johannis Braham Armigeri que obiit rbiiio die Nobembris Ao Dni. Millimo CCCCC rir. cuius anime propicietur Deus, Amen.
Braham single, and again impaling Reydon. Reydon single.
On a brass plated stone near the north door, a man in his winding sheet, and this:
Pray for the Sowle of your Charite, Of Thomas Hobson to the Trynyte.
On three flat marbles:
Nixon, on a chief, an axe impaling three roundels.
Here lieth the Body of Richard the Son of Richard Nixon, Esq; and Susan his Wife, who departed this Life the 28th Day of August, 1678.
In the 22d Year of his Age.
Nixon, impaling a chevron between three lions rampant:
Reliquiæ Richardi Nixon, Armig: Qui obijt 24° Novemb: Ano Dom. 1666, Ætatis suæ 77.
Per fess embattled three pheons impaling Nixon:
Here lyeth the Body of William Cooper, Gent. who died the 30th Day of March, 1693, Aged 54 Years.
In a north window was a man bearing Ufford's arms, and by him stood pictured a lady in the arms of Shelton, covered with a mantle of Lowdham. (fn. 8)
In the next window, or, a fess gul. Hasset, Scales; many funeral escutcheons for Hasset; one for Catherine, wife to Thomas Froxmere, Gent.
In the windows, Hasset and Lowdham quartered. Lowdham,— Ufford,—Dalimer, arg. three inescutcheons gul.; Shelton, Mortimer of Wigmore, Ufford with a label, again with a de-lis, again with a batoon gobonne arg. and gul.; again with an annulet arg.
In the west window Lowdham.
Lowdham impales Bacon, gul. on a chief arg. two mullets of the field, pierced sab.
Or, a fess gul. impales Scales.
Lowdham impales az. on a chief gul. three leopards faces or.
Mascule or and sab.
Most of these arms still remain in the windows.
I find among the evidences of Brightlead's tenement in Scole, that Thomas Ropkyn was buried here, with this inscription, now lost:
Pray for the Sowle of Thomas Ropkyn.
I have now by me three brass shields, which I am apt to think were stolen from this church some time agone; the arms being
Shelton impaling a cross ingrailed erm.
Shelton impaling a fess between fifteen billets, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Paston impaling Shelton.
At Mrs. Hill's at Castor, near Yarmouth, I saw an ancient canvass surrounding two rooms, painted with the matches of the Bleverhassets; (John Bleverhasset, who married Mrs. Hill's sister, and died in 1704, was the last of this branch;) their names are under each coat; but with hanging against moist walls, several are worn out: those that are perfect I have added here, though they are so displaced, that the time of the matches cannot be determined by their succession.
Bleverhasset, gul. a chevron. erm. between three dolphins embowed arg.
Crest on a wreath, arg. and gul. a fox seiant, gul.
Impaled with all the following coats:
Frogmorton, gul. on a chevron, or, three bars sab.
Braham, as in p. 134.
Tindall, arg. a fess indented in chief three crescents gul.
Eyre, arg. on a fess, - - - three trefoils or.
Pickerell, as in p. 48.
Clopton, sab. a bend arg. cotized, indented or.
Lowthe, sab. a lion rampant or, armed gul.
Cressi, arg. three beacons sab.
Culpepper, arg. a bend ingrailed gul.
Covert, gul. a fess between three lions heads or.
Baynaugh, gul. a chevron between three bulls faces or.
Brampton, gul. a saltire between four croslets fitchee arg.
Meawes, pally of six, or and arg. on a chief gul. three croslets formy of the first.
Lowdham, as in p. 134.
Kelvedon, (or Keldon,) gul. a pall reversed erm.
Orton, arg. a lion rampant guardant vert, crowned or.
Skelton, az. on a fess between three de-lises, or, a crescent sab.
Cornwaleis, Hare, Heydon, Wyngfield, Reape, Kempe, Gosnold, Spilman, Colby, Alcock, Rowse, Drury, Hubbard, Heigham, Warner, quartering Whetnall, Calthorp, Lovell and Ruthyn.
Rectors.
1294, John de Petestre, rector. (fn. 9)
1325, prid. non. Jan John de Novadomo (Newhouse) de Snapes; presented by Cecily, widow of Sir Robert de Ufford Earl of Suffolk, and lord of Eye, Robert de Shelton, and William Tastard, guardians of John de Lowdham.
1349, 21 Sept. Walter Manneysyn (after wrote in Deeds Malvesyn.) Sir John Lowdham, Knt.
1381, 7 May, William Payok, priest. Thomas de Lowdham, Knt.
1382, 6 June, John Baxter, priest. (fn. 10) Ditto.
1393, 4 June, Peter Rous, priest. Sir Robert Corbett, senior, guardian to John de Lowdham.
1394, 20 May, Henry Brakkele, priest, (fn. 11) Sir Robert Corbett, senior, guardian to John de Lowdham.
1397, 6 Decem. Sir John de Scoles, priest. Ditto.
1401, ult. Jan. Michael Crowe of Kenninghall, priest. Ditto.
1404, 4 Oct. Sir Tho. Warner of Leyham, priest. Gilbert de Debenham, for this turn.
1408, 8 Nov. Robert Pope of Frandeston, priest. John Lowdham of Burgate.
1416, 18 Oct. Tho. Bukke of Melles, priest. (fn. 12) John Lowdham of Ipswich, patron, by right of inheritance in a lineal descent.
1416, 20 Jan. John Greeve. Ditto.
1417, 22 Oct. Roger de Knyveton, priest. John Hevenyngham, senior, Knt. Will. Shelton, Esq. Will. Lord, clerk, and John Intewode, for this turn.
1419, 22 Dec. John Rawe, priest, on Knyveton's resignation. John Lowdham.
1423, 31 May, Simon Warner, priest. (fn. 13) John Lowdham, Esq. son and heir of Thomas Lowdham, Knt.
1428, 10 April, John Bubwith, priest, on Warner's resignation. John Hagh, Esq.
1479, 18 July, Henry - - - - - - -
1484, 22 Sept. Robert Stukely, collated by the Bishop. I meet with no more institutions till
1597, 21 April, Edmund Stanhaw. The Crown (as guardian to Bleverhasset.)
1598, 20 Oct. John Smith, A. M. on Stanhaw's resignation. Samuel Bleverhasset, Esq. united to Scole.
1603, John Smith, rector, of whom the Answers of the Parsons inform us, that he was a preacher allowed by the late Lord Bishop of Norwich, but no graduate.
1618, 21 April, Tho. Hall, A. M. united to Scole. Samuel Blaverhasset of Lowdham, Esq.
1642, 10 Sept. John Gibbs, A. M. on Hall's death. Richard Nixon, Gent.
1651, 18 Febr. Toby Dobbin. Ditto.
¶1673, 22 Sept. Tho. Wales, A. B. on Dobbin's death. John Fincham of Outwell, in the Isle of Ely, Esq.; he had Thelton.
1702, 7 Oct. Tho. Palgrave, on Wales's death. Diamond Nixon, Esq.
1725, 24 Aug. Will. Baker, on Palgrave's death. Robert Kemp, Bart. united to Wacton-Parva.
1734, the Rev. Mr. John James, the present [1736] rector, on Baker's resignation. Sir Robert Kemp, Bart. patron.
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Carte de visite by the Washington Gallery of Vicksburg, Miss. Edwin M. Main is one of the rare individuals whose Civil War service spanned some of the earliest and last operations of the Civil War. In July 1861 he served as a special orderly to Gen. George B. McClellan during the Battle of Rich Mountain, Va. As a sergeant in the 4th Illinois Cavalry, he distinguished himself in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh. According to a biographical sketch, "He was several times wounded, the most serious being a gun-shot wound in right shoulder, and a compound fracture of right wrist, the latter received in a charge, his horse being shot and falling on him. He carries the bullet still in his shoulder, it being impracticable to extract it."
But it was his last stint as the major of the 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry, from 1863-1866, that prompted him to write a history of the regiment.
In The Story of the Marches, Battles and Incidents of the Third United States Colored Cavalry, A Fighting Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-5, Main wrote with pride of the accomplishments of his regiment. The volume was published in 1908. Included here is a passage about the participation of the Third at Egypt Station, Miss., one of the actions in the successful raid on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad led by Gen. Benjamin H. Grierson from Dec. 21, 1864 to Jan. 5, 1865. Main mentions the mortal wounding of Confederate Gen. Samuel J. Gohlson during the fight. Though Gohlson was severely wounded and suffered the amputation of an arm he died not die as a result of his injury. In fact he lived until 1883.
Here’s Maj. Main’s account:
The command was early in the saddle, the First brigade taking the advance, the Third brigade following, with the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry on the right, the Second brigade, or a part of it, remaining in the rear to guard prisoners and the pack train. The first brigade soon encountered the enemy's cavalry, which being ably handled by its commander, General Gholson, stubbornly contested the ground, but the First brigade pressed on, the sharp crack of their carbines being answered by the defiant yells of the enemy as they retreated from tree to tree, giving shot for shot.
Emerging from the timber into the open prairie, Egypt Station, with its formidable defenses, depot, and a few scattering buildings, came into view a mile or so distant. On being driven out of the woods into the open prairie, the rebel cavalry fell back under cover of the guns of the fort.
The First brigade on reaching the open ground, closed up in column of squadrons and charged the stockade directly in front, while the Third brigade diverged to the right, the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry coming into position on the south side of the stockade. The Fourth Illinois Cavalry, however, having been detached as the brigade came into action, became hotly engaged with the rebel cavalry, driving them back and around to the rear of the stockade, where they mortally wounded General Gholson, and killed and wounded many of his men. In the meantime the First brigade received a disastrous check. As this brigade charged the stockade one thousand muskets belched forth a murderous fire through the loop-holes of the stockade, before which many men and horses went down.
At this critical juncture Major Main, commanding Third U.S. Colored Cavalry, was ordered to dismount his men and charge the stockade on the south side, which order was promptly executed, the men responding with a yell as they came to the front midst a shower of bullets, but before they reached the fort a white flag was hoisted over it in token of surrender, when the firing ceased and the fort surrendered.
To the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, however, more than to any other portion of the command is due the credit of hastening the surrender. This regiment, riding down the rebel cavalry, swung around to the rear of the stockade, which being open and unprotected presented a good point of attack, which the Fourth Illinois Cavalry was not slow to take advantage of. and with their customary dash they charged into the gap. Thus assailed in front and flank by the Fourth Illinois Cavalry and the Third U.S. Colored Cavalry, the garrison hastened to avert the final knockout blow by hoisting a white flag.
The surrender, however, was effected none too soon, as almost simultaneously with the raising of the white flag over the fort, a 12 pound shot came hurtling through the air, heralding the approach of the promised re-inforcements. As the train bearing these re-inforcements slowed up about half a mile from the fort, it was discovered that they had two pieces of artillery, which were mounted on a flat car in front of the engine. The train backed up to the edge of the woods, where the troops, several regiments of infantry, were disembarked and formed line of battle on the open prairie, deployed a heavy skirmish line, and advanced in battle front. In the meantime the two' pieces of artillery on the flat-car kept up a rapid fire, evidently meant as a bluff, as they did no damage, except to the railroad track. To have trained their guns directly on our men would have endangered the lives of their own men, now prisoners in and about the fort. As the enemy continued to advance from the woods, Major Main was ordered to move with his regiment, the Third U.S. Colored Cavalry, and hold them in check, but to avoid bringing on an engagement if possible. The regiment, 800 strong moved out over the prairie in column of squadrons in echelon, presenting a formidable appearance. On nearing the enemy, one company was deployed as skirmishers, and were soon exchanging shots with the enemy, who still continuing to advance, the skirmishers were recalled, and the regiment moved forward front into line with sabres drawn, at which the enemy, evidently expecting to be charged and not relishing the sight of so much cold steel, feel back to their cars, where they reformed under cover of the woods. In the mean time the dead were being buried, the wounded cared for, and the prisoners marched to the rear. Major Main received orders to hold his position until the entire command had withdrawn, then to follow in the rear, which he did, the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry being the last to leave the scene of their late engagement. The enemy were in no condition to follow. The Union loss in this engagement was 70 killed and wounded, thirty of the wounded, too severely hurt to be moved, bad to be left behind. Besides this, the command lost over 100 horses killed.
The enemy's loss was, prisoners between 800 and 1,000 killed and wounded 60 or more, among the killed being their commanding officer. General Gholson. The command bivouacked that night near Houston, the night being well advanced when the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry reached the camping place.
Maj. Main lived until 1917.
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Part of a vicious storm cell that did a lot of damage around central Illinois yesterday. I took this picture outside while a tornado warning was in affect in my area, haha. Notice the slight greenish tint to the rain bands on the right, a sign of hail. Yeah it hailed alright. Some pieces in our yard were about 1 inch across.
Resultado da enquente do sábado passado no OH MY!!
Post fresquinho!
Venham conferir!
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Bjus!
Even at a year or two old, this little girl's expression and pose gives her a rather intimidating air. I can easily see her having become a powerful matriarch later in her life. There's no name or other information on the back of the photo, but the seller I bought it from had all five photos in the lot listed as "civil war era", although i think this closer to the 1870's.
The second photo of Charlie in his poliecman uniform, this time, with his hat on and looking very serious and official. now, if only his mother's lace curtains (which I love) weren't in the background, detracting from his would-be formidable demeanor.
This photo is also dated and captioned, "Nov. 15, '25 "Our chief"' by some nameless, contientious relative.
I got this photo in the same lot as the photos titled "patriotic girl" "patriotic woman" "young trumpeter" "impressive hat" and "business card" earlier in my photostream. It seems to me that a great deal of the photos in that lot come from the same extended family. While I can't connect the prior four photos to that family through anything other than the city in which they were taken, Charlie here defiitely seems to be a member of this family along with Byron Eckert (the man shown in the photo "business card") who I believe is his uncle. There are a number of other photos of him with Byron's sons when they were young.
Spider-Formidable col (Le Conte Lake in distance), Ptarmigan Traverse, North Cascades, Washington State (photograph by Celest)
Joy Formidable performs at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver, B.C., September 7, 2011 © Anil Sharma / Retna Ltd.
The Joy Formidable
KEXP live sessions
Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop
Austin, TX
March 17, 2011
Photos by Jim Bennett
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Gaston Lachaise (1882 – 1935) was an American sculptor of French birth, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris from 1898 to 1904 he studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gabriel-Jules Thomas. He began his artistic career as a designer of Art Nouveau decorative objects for the French jeweler René Lalique.
He is most noted for his female nudes such as this monumental Standing Woman. His muse and inspiration was his wife, Isabel Dutaud Nagle, who he used as a model for the course of his career. flic.kr/p/afv19t, flic.kr/p/d8YsYE