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The authoritarian, arbitrary and brutally unjust restrictions under the Indeterminate Sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) were introduced in the United Kingdom in 2005. They were supposedly intended for people considered "dangerous," whose offence didn't merit a life sentence, but they were soon extended to thousands of prisoners, often for dubious reasons.
As the Prison Reform Trust explains they mean "detention in prison for a potentially unlimited period until the person can prove that they are no longer a threat to the public" and "release back into the community on licence, with the potential of being returned to custody."
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/project/imprisonment-for-public-...
This led to thousands of prisoners not having any clear idea of when they might be released and fearing that they might die in prison, with a similar torturous anxiety for those released, with many recalled for breaching their conditions on technical reasons beyond their control, such as over issues of accommodation.
The Prison Reform Trust explained that although the imposition of IPP sentences was abolished in 2012, it wasn't done retrospectively and thousands of prisoners are still waiting to be released despite having finished their sentence, while those in the community face the risk of recall at anytime to custody if they breach the strict conditions of their licence. There have been 81 cases of suicide among IPP prisoners.
In February 2023, the government refused a recommendation from the Justice Select Committee to resentence those suffering under IPP (imprisonment for public protection) sentences, as well as further recommendations covering those IPP prisoners facing similar uncertainty in the community.
www.nacro.org.uk/news/no-hope-now-for-ipp-prisoners-follo...
It was therefore perhaps not unexpected when in April 2023, a prisoner, Joe Outlaw, managed to climb up on to the rooftop of one of Britain's toughest high security prisons - HMP Manchester (otherwise known as Strangeways) to stage a 12 hour protest against the continued imprisonment of thousands of IPPs beyond their sentences.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/04/17/a-prisoner-climbe...
I understand that Joe Outlaw was punished severely for his protest and was subsequently moved to Belmarsh Prison. There is a recent update about his situation on revolutionarycommunist.org but I've had some seemingly technical problems (not sure what the cause is) trying to access the website. When I can get more information I'll post it here.
Kelly Pflug-Back Sentenced to 15 Months for Black Bloc Actions in Toronto
toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/kelly-plug-back-sentenced-15-m...
These were the largest mass arrests in the history of this nation-state, nearly doubling the 700 people arrested during the implementation of the War Measures Act under Trudeau in response to the FLQ kidnappings that took place in 1970 in Quebec.
Kelly Rose Plug-Back was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
To place this in context, the man who was convicted for murdering [Kelly's] friend, Victoria's Ariana Simpson [Harley - pictured above], by pushing her under a bus, was only given a one-year sentence and 250 hours of community service.
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Harley and I had a little chat. She wasn't too keen on her family seeing her like this. The local TV crews have been sneaking up on the street community, trying to get candid shots - but it's pissing off the street community and making my job harder. Voyeurs and Rubber Neckers - reporting the news - for profit.
She likes photography and I gave her a link to my photos. We both lived in Deadmonton, Alberta - but she was lucky to have only lived there for a short while - unlucky that most of it was on the street. I only lived on the street a short while in Deadmonton.
I wonder how such a pretty girl survives on the street.
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i got this account just so i could contact you and tell you how much i like your photography. I went on here when you told me how i could see some of these photos that day you where taking my picture near the train statio. I happened to have access to a computer a lot since then and was happelly suprised to be able to view all your photos and to see the photos of me. hurt by johnny cash is one of my favorite songs. its kind of surreal to see the picture and the comments about me, but i don't feel like i was mis repressented and however sad the comments may be i was expecting more of a judgmental, discriminating response, because im used to it.
thanks for letting me see your art, it is a reflection of the life im living and the people and places in my life,
i've always love photography, its a good thing for me to be able to see the art i've been ignoring and maybe it will push me to face the feelings i have been avoiding and if i can turn them into the art i once did, it may be an outlet for the emotions im afraid to face.
harley
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Harley died yesterday. She was pushed in front of a bus and died in the street.
Mixed-media art card featuring a page from a vintage grammar book and reproductions of vintage owl engravings
Dimensions: 2.5" x 3.5"
Baldessari, John. Fable: A Sentence of Thirteen Parts (with Twelve Alternate Verbs) Ending in Fable. Hamburg, Germany and New York, N.Y.: Anatol AV und Filmproduktion, 1977.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.
Original Caption: President Grover Cleveland's Commutation of Willie Johnson, alias Willie Overton's Death Sentence
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U.S. District Court Western Division of Arkansas
Willie Johnson
President Grover Cleveland
1896
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William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien (Irish: Liam Mac Gabhann Ó Briain; 17 October 1803 – 18 June 1864) was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He also encouraged the use of the Irish language. He was convicted of sedition for his part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, but his sentence of death was commuted to deportation to Van Diemen's Land. In 1854, he was released on the condition of exile from Ireland, and he lived in Brussels for two years. In 1856 O'Brien was pardoned and returned to Ireland, but he was never active again in politics.
Early life- Born in Dromoland, Newmarket on Fergus, County Clare, he was the second son of Sir Edward O'Brien, 4th Baronet, of Dromoland Castle. William took the additional surname Smith, his mother's maiden name, upon inheriting property through her. He inherited and lived at Cahermoyle House, a mile from Ardagh, County Limerick. He was a descendant of the eleventh century Ard Rí (High King of Ireland), Brian Boru. He received an upper-class English education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Politics- From April 1828 to 1831 he was Conservative MP for Ennis. He became MP for Limerick County in 1835, holding his seat in the House of Commons until 1848. Although a Protestant, he supported Catholic Emancipation while remaining a supporter of British-Irish union. In 1843, in protest against the imprisonment of Daniel O'Connell, he joined O'Connell's anti-union Repeal Association.
Three years later, disillusioned by O'Connell, O'Brien withdrew the Young Irelanders from the association. With Thomas Francis Meagher, in January 1847 he founded the Irish Confederation. In March 1848, he spoke out in favour of a National Guard and tried to incite a national rebellion. He was tried for sedition on May 15, 1848 but was not convicted.
Irish language- O'Brien was a founding member of the Ossianic Society, whose aim was further the interests of the Irish language and to publish and translate literature relating to the Fianna.
He wrote to his son Edward from Van Diemen's Land, urging him to learn the Irish language. He himself studied the language and used an Irish-language Bible, and presented to the Royal Irish Academy Irish-language manuscripts he had collected. He enjoyed the respect of Clare poets (the county being largely Irish speaking at the time), and in 1863, on his advice, Irish was introduced into a number of schools there.
Rebellion and transportation- Removal of Smith O'Brien under sentence of death
Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848
On 29 July 1848, O'Brien and other Young Irelanders led landlords and tenants in a rising in three counties, with an almost bloodless battle against police at Ballingarry, County Tipperary. In O'Brien's subsequent trial, the jury found him guilty of high treason. He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Petitions for clemency were signed by 70,000 people in Ireland and 10,000 people in England.
In Dublin on 5 June 1849, the sentences of O'Brien and other members of the Irish Confederation were commuted to transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania in present-day Australia).
O'Brien attempted to escape from Maria Island off Tasmania, but was betrayed by Ellis, captain of the schooner hired for the escape. He was sent to Port Arthur where he met up with John Mitchel, who had been transported before the rebellion. The cottages which O'Brien lived in on Maria Island and Port Arthur have been preserved in their 19th century state as memorials.
Having emigrated to the United States, Ellis was tried by another Young Irelanders leader, Terence MacManus, at a lynch court in San Francisco for the betrayal of O'Brien. He was freed for lack of evidence.
Statue on Dublin's O'Connell Street
In 1854, after five years in Tasmania, O'Brien was released on the condition he never return to Ireland. He settled in Brussels. In May 1856, he was granted an unconditional pardon and returned to Ireland that July. He played no further part in politics.
Legacy- There is a statue of him on O'Connell Street, Dublin.
His older brother Lucius O'Brien (1800–1872) was also a Member of Parliament for County Clare.
His sister was Harriet O'Brien who married an Anglican priest but was soon widowed. As Harriet Monsell, she founded the order of Anglican nuns, the Community of St John Baptist, in Clewer, Windsor, in 1851. The gold cross she wore, and which still belongs to the Community, was made with gold panned by her brother during his exile in Australia.
Quotes
“The new Irish flag would be Orange and Green, and would be known as the Irish tricolour”
“To find a gaol in one of the lovliest spots formed by Nature in one of her lonliest solitudes creates a revulsion of feeling I cannot describe”
Ref wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_O'Brien
Somehow I had missed Boxley from previous crawls in the area. I guess, once upon a time, Boxley was a quiet village halfway up the downs, relying on sheepfarming for its income. In the 21st century, its just a suburb of Maidstone, though a mile or so outside the county town.
All Saints popped up on the churchcrawling group on Facebook, and thought it looked interesting, which is something of an understatement.
We arrived at just after eleven, in the lych gate there was a sign saying the church was open, so, result!
Approaching the church aloong a stone path it feels very un-Kent-like, especially as entrance to the church is in the very west end.
You enter, and are in a large space, in fact this was the Norman chancel of the original church, then into the space below the west tower, and there is the door into the church as it is now.
But I could hear voices from within, probably wardens cleaning, or so I thought...
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The church lies at the far end of the village green. Visitors who do not first walk around the outside of the church wonder if they are ever going to get in - for they have to walk through two rooms first! From the outside it is not so puzzling; the first room is in fact the nave of the Norman church. Then comes the base of the fifteenth-century tower, built on the site of the Norman chancel. Only after we have gone through this do we come to the church proper - a complete fourteenth-century structure. It is wide, with two aisles, and relatively short. The chancel is well proportioned and has a definite lean to the south indicating medieval building error.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Boxley
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BOXLEY.
ADJOINING to Maidstone north-eastward lies the parish of Boxley, written in Domesday, Boseleu, and in the Textus Roffensis, Boxele and Boxle, a parish noted, as well for the famous assembly of the whole county, held at Pinenden heath, within the boundaries of it, in the reign of the Conqueror, as for the abbey not long afterwards founded in it.
THE VILLAGE of Boxley situated at the foot of the chalk hills, above which this parish extends among the coppice woods, over a barren dreary country covered with flints, to Dun-street, at the northern boundaries of it. Southward it extends to the rivulet in the valley, at a very small distance from the town of Maidstone, a length of near four miles, the width of it is not more than three at its greatest extent, and in most parts much less; the soil from its extent is of course various, to the northward it is chalk; in the middle, and towards the west a deep sand; to the eastward a wet cludgy earth, and to the south and south-east for the most part a not unfertile loamy soil bounding upon the rock. It is a situation much more healthy than it is pleasant, owing to its chalky and sandy soils, and its bleak situation. The village is watered by a clear spring, which rises just below the church, and directs its course through the street; this spring, as well as another, which rises likewise at the foot of the chalk hill, just above Boxley abbey, are both very inviting to the sight, but the water is very hard and unfit for culinary uses, especially the latter, which in two months will petrify wood, the incrustation resembling brown and unpolished marble. These join just below the abbey, and flow together into the Medway, almost opposite to Allington castle.
The village lies on a descent from the hills, there are several genteel houses in it; at the upper or northern part of it is Boxley house, lord Romney's, inhabited by his three sisters and Mr. Coker; somewhat lower down is a house, which for many years was the property and residence of the family of Charlton, who bore for their arms, Or, a lion rampant gules, the last of them, John Charlton, esq. dying in 1770 unmarried, it came by his will, together with the chief of his other estates, to his eldest nephew, the Rev. George Burville, (son of the Rev. Henry Burville, by Anne his sister). The Burvilles bear for their arms, Argent, a chevron between three oak leaves erect, vert. Mr. Burville married Juliana, daughter of William Bowyer, esq. of Denham, in Buckinghamshire, by whom he has a son John, and daughter Frances, married to the Rev. Philip Rashleigh. He is the present possessor of this house, in which he resides; below this is the parsonage and vicarage, the latter a handsome genteel house, and just above it at a small distance from the east side of the street, the church; almost adjoining to Mr. Burville's house, is another more antient one, called Park-house, once part of the estate of Boxley abbey, and afterwards in like manner, the estate of Sir Thomas Wyatt, whose son forfeited it for treason in the 1st year of queen Mary How it passed afterwards I have not found, though it seems never to have been restored to his descendants; in the beginning of the present century it was in the possession of the family of St. John, in which it remained till Mrs. St. John joining with her son, Paulet St. John, sold it in 1720 to Maudistley Best, esq. (son of Mr. Thomas Best, of Chatham) who resided and kept his shrievalty here in 1730, bearing for his arms, sable, two cross croslets in chief, and a cinquefoil in base, or. He died in 1740, leaving two sons, Thomas, late of Chilston, esq. and James, of Chatham, and a daughter, married to the hon. Robert, afterwards lord Fairfax, of Leeds castle, who died s. p. He gave by will this seat to his youngest son James, who served the office of sheriff in 1751, and resided here at times, and died in 1782, leaving by Frances his wife, one of the daughters of Richard Shelley, esq. four sons and four daughters, to the eldest of the former, Thomas Best, esq. he by will gave this house and his estate in this parish, and he now resides in it. There has been from time immemorial a warren for rabbits here, the lands of which lay close at the foot of the chalk hills, it formerly belonged to Boxley abbey, and was afterwards in the possession of the Wyatts, and is now from them the estate of lord Romney, and there was likewise another part of it used likewise as a warren, lying near Pinenden-heath, which was part of the Park-house estate, and as such, is now the property of Mr. Best, but the name only remains, the rabbits having been for some time destroyed, and the land made arable. About a mile. eastward from the village in a low flat situation, at no great distance from the high road from Rochester to Maidstone, is Boxley abbey, with a small hamlet of houses near it, and nearer to the hills the abbey farm. The plantations of the estate called the Park-house, likewise, the old seat of which was situated in Maidstone parish, near the high road to Rochester, as has been already described, extend into the western part of this parish. The late Sir Henry Calder, whose property it was, pulled down the old house, and on a beautiful spot near adjoining, though within this parish, began a handsome stone mansion, which after his death was finished by his widow, who with her son Sir Henry, for some time resided in it; it is now inhabited by Mr. Osborne. At a small distance eastward from hence, in nearly the centre of this parish, excepting that Maidstone stretches itself with a point or nook over a part of it, is that noted plain Pinnenden, now usually called Pickenden heath, a place made famous in early times; the western part is in Maidstone parish, the remainder in this of Boxley. From its situation almost in the middle of the county or shire of Kent, this heath has been time out of mind used for all county meetings, and for the general business of it, the county house for this purpose, a poor low shed, is situated on the north side of it, where the sheriff continues to hold his county court monthly, and where he takes the poll for the members of the county, and for the coroners, the former of which, after a few suffrages is usually adjourned to Maidstone; on a conspicuous hill on the opposite side of the heath, though in Maidstone parish, is the gallows, for the public execution of criminals condemned at the assizes.
At the time of the conquest it was the noted place for the public meetings of the county; for in the book of Domesday there is mention made, that when the inhabitants of Kent were summoned to meet ad sciram, that is, in public assembly at the shyregemot or Sheriff'stourn, for the trial of certain customs therein mentioned, they should go for that purpose as far as Pinnedenna, but no further.
In the year 1076, being the 11th of the Conqueror's reign, a famous assembly was held at this place on the following occasion.
Odo, bishop of Baieux and earl of Kent, had by means of his great power, defrauded the church of Canterbury of many manors and lands, and of several liberties, and had kept possession of them; but upon Lanfranc's being made archbishop in the year 1070, he represented the whole of the injury done to his church to the king, who forthwith commanded that it should be enquired into and determined by the nobles, and other competent men, not only of this county, but of the other counties of England, assembled for this purpose at this heath.
There were present at this meeting Goisfrid, bishop of Constance, who sat as the king's representative on this occasion; archbishop Lanfranc, who pleaded his church's cause; Odo, earl of Kent, who defended himself against his accusers in what he had done; Ernest, bishop of Rochester; Agelric, bishop of Chester, an antient man, and well versed in the laws of the realm; who on account of his great age was, by the king's order, brought hither in a waggon, in una quadriga; Richard de Tunebrige, Hugh de Montfort, William de Arsic, Hamo Vicecomes or Sheriff, and many others, barons of the king and of the archbishop, many tenants of those bishops, and many others of good and great account, as well of this as of other counties, both French and English.
This trial lasted three days, at the end of which the archbishop recovered several of the antient possessions of his church, as well from Odo as from Hugh Montfort and Ralph de Curva Spina or Crookthorne, and established the liberties of it, in matters between the king and himself. (fn. 1)
On the south side of the heath the turnpike road from Maidstone through Detling to Key-street aud Sittingbourn crosses this parish, and another branches off from hence to Bersted and Ashford; in the southern part of it are the hamlets of Grove green and Wavering-street, Newnham court, and the beautiful seat of Vinters, most pleasantly situated; below which in the vale is the stream which turns the paper mills, and separates this parish from Maidstone. At Grove, as has been already noticed, is a remarkable fine vein of fuller's earth, by the working of which Mr. John Watts, the owner of it, at the beginning of this century, became famous. But this earth was in working in 1630, at which time John Ray, merchant, of London, was sentenced to a severe fine and punishment in the Star Chamber, for transporting of it clandestinely to Holland. (fn. 2) This vein lies about thirty feet deep, and is about seven feet thick. There are two sorts of it, the blue and the dark grey, the latter of which lying under the former is most valuable; a great quantity of this earth is sent from hence by sea for the use of the clothiers in distant countries. For the manufacture carried on in this parish for the making of paper there are four sets of mills, two of which are situated at the south-east extremity of it, on the stream called the Little River, which rises near Lenham, and runs by Leeds castle hither; the upper ones, belonging to lord Aylesford, and the lower ones to Messrs. Hollingworth's; the other two are situated on the western side of the parish, near Aylesford, on the rivulet which rises under the chalk hills, and are made use of for making an inferior kind of merchandize, one of these belongs to lord Romney. The lower mills above-mentioned belonging to Messrs. Hollingworth, stand at a small distance on the north side of the road leading from Maidstone to the Mote, and are called the Old Turkey Mills, they deserve a more particular notice in this place for their superiority, as well in the many extensive buildings, machines and conveniences erected for carrying on this large and curious manufacture, and the number of people continually employed in the different branches of it, as the easy and regular method, and the neatness with which the whole is conducted. They were formerly used as fulling mills, but on the decay of the cloathing trade in these parts, were, by Mr. Gill, the proprietor, converted into paper mills, and used by him as such for a few years; he sold them to Mr. James Whatman, who in 1739 pulled the whole of them down, and erected them on a much more curious and extensive plan, which was afterwards much more improved by his son James Whatman, esq. who with infinite pains and expence, brought his manufactory of writing paper, for no other sort is made here, to a degree of perfection, superior to most in the kingdom. In 1794 he sold these mills to Messrs. Hollingworth, and retired to Vintners, where he now resides, and they now carry on this manufacture here; under the buildings is a strong chalybeat spring, which however does not produce any great quantity of water. In 1711 a Roman urn was dug up at Grove, by the workmen, near the vein of Fuller's earth there, as several others have been since, with other relics of antiquity and coins, both there and at Vintners, most of the coins having the inscription of the emperor Adrian, and the like have been from time to time discovered at Goddard's hill, in this parish, where there are several stones set up similar to those about Horsted.
OUR BOTANISTS have observed the following scarce plants in this parish:
Borago minor silvestris, small white bugloss, or German madwort.
Scopyllum angustifolium glabrum, smooth narrowleased thyme.
Buxus, the box tree, which grows plentifully in the woods here. (fn. 3)
Stellaria sanicula major, ladies mantle.
BOXLEY, at the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, was part of the vast estate of Odo, the great bishop of Baieux and earl of Kent, the Conqueror's half-brother; in which record it is thus described:
Robert Latin holds to ferm Boseleu. It was taxed at seven sulings in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and now at five sulings. The arable land is twenty carucates. In demesne there are three carucates, and fortyseven villeins, with eleven borderers having sixteen carucates. There are three mills of thirty-six shillings and eight-pence, and sixteen servants, and twenty acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of thirty hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth twenty-five pounds, now thirty pounds, and Robert yet pay fifty-five pounds. Alnod Cilt held it.
Four years after the taking of the above survey, about the year 1084, this estate, on the bishop of Baieux's disgrace, became forfeited to the crown, among the rest of his possessions.
In the year 1146, (fn. 4) William d'Ipre, earl of Kent, who afterwards became a monk himself at Laon, in Flanders, (fn. 5) founded an ABBEY at this place for monks of the Cistertian order, some of whom he brought from Claravalle, in Burgundy, for this purpose, and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary, as all the houses of this order were. The first monastery of this order in England was at Waverly, which was built in 1129, by Walter Gifford, bishop of Winchester. They were a branch of the Benedictines, called by the English, from their habit, White monks, and likewise Cif tertians; which last name they had from the town of Cistertium or Cisteaux, in the bishopric of Chalons, in Burgundy, where this order was first instituted by Robert, abbot of Molesme, in the year 1098. There were eighty-five houses of this order, at the time of the dissolution, in England.
King Richard I. in his 1st year, anno 1189, gave the MANOR of BOXELE (fn. 6) to this abbey, which king Henry III. in his 37th year, confirmed by his letters of inspeximus. (fn. 7)
King Henry III. in his 37th year, granted to the abbot and convent to hold a market weekly within their manor of Boxley. (fn. 8) The place where it was held appears to have been called Farthings.
In the 7th year of Edward I. the abbot claimed, before the justices itinerant, certain liberties, by the charters of king Henry and king Richard, and the confirmation of them by the charter of king Henry, the then king's father. And he claimed to have warren in all his demesne lands in Kent and Surry, which he had in the time of king Henry, the king's father; and that he and his predecessors had fully used those liberties, &c. and it was then found, that the abbot had in his manor of Boxley a free court, &c. and that the tenants of the manor ought to plead in the hundred of Maidstone, pleas of Withernam, &c. and that the abbot ought to allow pannage, &c, and that the tenants of the manor owed pontage, and paid it to Rochester bridge. (fn. 9)
The abbot of Boxley was summoned to parliament twice in the 23d year of king Edward I. once in the 24th, and twice in the 28th years of that reign, but never afterwards, that I can find. (fn. 10)
In the reign of king Henry III. there were sixtyfour abbots and thirty-six priors summoned to parliament; but this number being thought too great, king Edward III. reduced them to twenty-five abbots and two priors, to which were afterwards added two more abbots, so that there were no more than twentynine in all, who statedly and constantly enjoyed this privilege, of which only St. Austen's, near Canterbury, was in this county. (fn. 11)
King Edward II. in his 15th year, honoured this abbey with his presence, where, on Oct. 25, he granted to the aldermen and citizens of London to nominate a mayor out of their own body, at his will. (fn. 12) King Edward III. in his 33d year, granted to the abbot, &c. free warren in their manor of Boxele, &c. (fn. 13)
In the reign of king Richard II. the revenues of this abbey were valued at 218l. 19s. 10d. of which 98l. 19s. 7d. was in the diocese of Canterbury, (fn. 14)
John Dobbes, the last abbot, and the convent of Boxley, surrendered it into the hands of Henry VIII. on January 29, in the 29th year of his reign, (fn. 15) and it was, together with all the lands and possessions belonging to it, confirmed to the king and his heirs, by the general words of the act, passed in the 31st year of that reign for this purpose; after which there were pensions allowed to the abbot, 50l. and to eight of the canons, from 2l. 13s. 4d. to 4l. yearly, for their lives, or until the person was promoted to a benefice of equal or superior value; the five last of which pensions remained in charge in 1553. (fn. 16)
It was endowed, at its dissolution, with 204l. 4s. 11d. per annum, clear revenue, according to Dug dale; or, according to Speed, with 218l. 9s. 10d. per annum, yearly income. (fn. 17)
The coat of arms belonging to it was, Argent, a dexter bend lozenge, gules; on a canton of the second, a crozier or pastoral staff of the field. (fn. 18) This coat, without the crozier, as also another, being a pastoral staff, surmounted of a bend, are still remaining carved in stone on the capitals of two pillars, from which springs a small circular arch in the garden, at the back of this abbey.
There was a chapel, dedicated to St. Andrew the apostle, founded hard by the outer gate of this monastery, which was served by a curate appointed for that purpose.
The lands of the abbey of Boxley, of the order of Cistertians, were as such, in particular circumstances, exempted from the payment of tithes. Pope Pascal II. exempted all the religious in general from the payment of tithes for lands in their own occupation, and this continued till the reign of Henry II. when pope Hadrian IV. restrained this exemption to the three religious orders of Cistertians, Templars, and Hospitallers, to which pope Innocent III. added a fourth, viz. the Præmonstratenses, from whence these were generally called the four privileged orders. After which the general council of Lateran, in 1215, further restrained this exemption to lands in their own occupation, and to those which they possessed before that time. After this the Cistertians procured bulls to exempt all their lands likewise which were letten to farm. To restrain which, the statute of the second of king Henry IV. cap. 4. was made, which enacted, that whoever, religious as well as secular, should put these bulls in execution, and purchase any others, and by colour of them should take any advantage in any shape, should be guilty of a præmunire. This restrained their privilege again to such lands only as they had before the Lateran council above mentioned; so that the lands they afterwards acquired are in no wise exempted, and this statute left them subject to the payment of such composition for tithes of their demesne lands as they had made with any particular rectors, &c. who contesting their privileges, even under that head, brought them to compound. This monastery of Boxley was one of those dissolved by the act of the 31st of king Henry VIII. the only ones which continued these privileges to their possessors afterwards; by which act, as well the king, his heirs and successors, as all others who should have any of those monasteries, their lands or possessions, were to hold and enjoy them, according to their estates and titles, discharged and acquitted of payment of tithes, as freely, and in as large and ample a manner as the late abbots, priors, &c. of the same before held them. (fn. 19)
In the Registrum Roffense, (fn. 20) are the names of the fields, woods, and other premises in the parish of Boxley, of which the abbot and convent here should in future be free and exempt from the payment of all tithes whilst they were in their own hands.
In the church of this abbey was the statue of St. Rumbald, usually called by the common people, St. Grumbald, which was held in great reverence for his fancity by them, for the miracles it was said to perform.
¶King Henry VIII. in his 32d year, exchanged with Sir Thomas Wyatt, of Allynton, for other premises, the house and scite of this monastery, lately dissolved, and the church, steeple, and church yard of it, with the buildings, lands, &c. as well nigh and adjoining to the scite and precinct of it, his lordship of Boxley, Hoo, and Newenham court, with their appurtenances and the farm and lands, called Upper Grange, and all lands, tenements, and other premises late belonging to it, in the parishes, townships, or hamlets of Boxley, Boxley-street, Burley, Burthin, Sandelyng, Wilston, Wavering, Havurland, Oxefiyth, Dunstreet upon the Hill, and elsewhere, in Kent, excepting to the king the parsonage of Boxley and the advowson of the parish church; (fn. 21) all which were soon afterwards again vested in the crown, as appears by the Escheat rolls of the 38th year of that reign, (fn. 22) when the king regranted the whole of them to Sir Thomas Wyatt, son of Sir Thomas before mentioned, to hold in capite by knight's service, who having, in the 1st year of queen Mary, with other gentlemen of note in this county, raised a rebellion, was found guilty of high treason, and executed that year, and his estate was consiscated to the crown; but the queen, through her bounty, the next year, granted the manor of Boxly, with the Upper Grange, and some other lands adjoining, to his widow, the lady Jane Wyatt, (daughter and coheir of Sir William Haut, of Bourne) and her heirs male, to hold in like manner. On her death, her son, George Wyatt, succeeded to them; but the abbey seems to have continued in the crown, for queen Elizabeth, in her 11th year, granted the scite and mansion of it to John Astley for a term of years. In the 13th year of that reign, George Wyatt, esq. was restored in blood by act of parliament, after which he became possessed of this seat, and resided here, having the fee of it granted to him by the crown. He died in 1624, and was buried in the chancel of this church, as were his several descendants, who bore for their arms, Per fess azure and gules, a barnacle argent, the ring or; he left several sons and daughters, of whom the second son, Haute Wyatt, was vicar of this parish; and Francis, the eldest, succeeded him in the manor of Boxley, the mansion of the abbey, the Grange, and his other estates in this parish. He was afterwards knighted, and was twice governor of Virginia. He died in 1644, leaving two sons, Henry, his eldest son and heir, and Edwin, who afterwards became possessed of this manor, seat, and estates, above mentioned, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Thomas Bosvile, esq. of Littlemote in Eynsford, esq. whose daughter Margaret became the wife of Sir Robert Marsham, bart. great grandfather of the present lord Romney.
Henry Wyatt, esq. was of Boxley abbey, and left an only daughter and heir, Francis, who carried this manor, seat, with the Grange and other estates above mentioned, in marriage to Sir Thomas Selyard, bart. but Edwin Wiat, the younger brother of Henry above mentioned, disputing at law the lady Selyard's title to them, recovered the manor of Boxley, with other estates last mentioned, in this parish and elsewhere; but the abbey, with the lands belonging to it, remained in the possession of Sir Thomas Selyard, as will be mentioned hereafter.
BOXLEY is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sutton.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, stands on the east side of the village; it is not large, but neat, and contains three isles and a chancel, with a handsome square tower at the west end, in which hang four small bells, which were cast in 1652, by M. Darby.
In this church, before the Reformation, was a famous rood, called the Rood of Grace, which was held in great esteem for the miracles it was supposed to work. It was broken to pieces by the king's command at St. Paul's cross, in London, on Sunday, February 24, 1538, in the presence of John Hilsey, bishop of Rochester, and a vast concourse of the populace. (fn. 35)
The church of Boxley was given by king Henry I. in 1130, to the church of Rochester, with all its liberties and rights, in like manner as his chaplain, Jeffry or Ansfrid, the clerk, had ever held it; but that church and monastery, having been destroyed by fire, and the monks dispersed abroad, king Stephen, in 1137, dispossessed them of this church, which, howeever, on their return to their monastery, was on their remonstrance to the court of Rome, by the pope's bull, restored and confirmed to them; and Walter, bishop of Rochester, not only confirmed to them the appropriation of it, but granted to them the free disposal and presentation of the vicarage, saving the right of the bishop of the diocese; which grant was confirmed likewise by the several archbishops of Canterbury afterwards.
In the year 1180, there was an agreement made between the monks of Boxley and those of Rochester, concerning the parochial tithes of this church; by which the latter granted to the former a certain field belonging to the parish church of Boxley, above the hills, but by the consent of the former they retained out of it for ever half an acre of wood for fencing; and the monks of Rochester granted to those of Boxley all the tithes above the hills of all lands, as well of those free lands, which the latter had of the king's gift, as of those which they had acquired, to be held finally in villenage, or might acquire in future, at any time for their own use; and likewise certain land belonging to this parish church, under the hill, with the meadow adjoining, between the abbey and village of Boxley; on the other hand, the monks of Boxley granted to those of Rochester all their tithes under the hills, without the bounds of the abbey and grange; that is to say, of all corn only and pulse, of all their lands under the hills, as well of those antiently as newly cultivated, and which they had from the foundation of the abbey, or might bring into culture at any time in future; and that the monks of Rochester should have all the tithes on the sides of the hills of all lands which at that time, or before were reduced to culture, excepting the field which the monks of Boxley bought of John de Horespole; which composition was confirmed by Richard, archbishop of Canterbury.
The confirmations of this church to the priory seem afterwards to have been but little regarded, and they were again dispossessed of it, with a reservation of 60s. annual pension only from it; and it appears, that the bishop of Rochester, together with the prior and convent, used to present to it on a vacancy, till the time of archbishop Islip, who at the petition of the monks, with the consent of the bishop, in 1363, restored this church to them, in as ample a manner as they had before held it; and he granted them full liberty to reenter into the corporal possession of it, with all its rights and appurtenances, on the vacancy of the rector then incumbent on it; reserving, nevertheless, in the first place, a proper portion out of the fruits and profits, for the maintenance of a perpetual vicar, at the presentation of the bishop, to be instituted by him and his successors, and for the due support of the episcopal and archidiaconal burthens, and others belonging to it; and a vicarage was afterwards accordingly endowed in it by archbishop Sudbury, in the year 1377. (fn. 36)
In 1403, a definitive sentence was passed concerning the tithes of this vicarage; (fn. 37) at which time, and so late as the year 1485, this church and advowson belonged to the priory of Rochester, for in the latter year, archbishop Bouchier, cardinal and apostolic legate, confirmed the appropriation of it to them; and a composition was entered into, anno 20 Richard II. between the prior and convent, and Adam Motrum, archdeacon of Canterbury; that as the archdeacon and his archdeaconry was detrimented in the yearly sum of 6s. 8d. the like sum should be yearly paid to the latter, out of the profits of it so long as they possessed it.
The appropriation, as well as the advowson of the vicarage, seems very soon afterwards to have passed into the hands of the prior and convent of Boxley, tho' by what means I do not find, before its dissolution, which happened in the 29th year of king Henry VIII. for that king, by his dotation charter, in his 32d year, settled his rectory and church of Boxley, late belonging to the dissolved monastery of Boxley, and the vicarage of it, on his new erected dean and chapter of Rochester, part of whose possessions they now remain.
In the 15th year of king Edward I. this church was valued at 32l. the vicarage is valued in the king's books at 12l. 19s. 2d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 5s. 11d.
King Henry VIII. in his 29th year, let to Thomas Vicary, one of his surgeons, the tithes of corn and the glebe lands of this rectory, and the capital messuage, houses, and buildings belonging to it, and ten pieces of land, late belonging to the monastery of Boxley and the advowson of the vicarage, for twenty-one years, at the yearly rent of forty pounds.
In the exchange of lands, made between Henry VIII. and Sir Thomas Wyatt, in the 32d year of his reign, the parsonage of Boxley, and the advowson of the vicarage, with their appurtenances, were particularly excepted, to remain to the king's use.
By a survey of this parsonage, on the abolition of deans and chapters, after the death of king Charles I. in 1649, by order of the state, is appears, that the par sonage-house, a fair and goodly house, with its appurtenances, tithes, &c. late belonging to the late monastery there, and forty-eight acres, three roods, and two perches of land, in the improved rents, were the whole of them worth 140l. 3s. 6d. per annum; and were let by the dean and chapter, anno 15 Charles I. to Robert Parker for twenty-one years, at the yearly rent of 26l. 13s. 4d. and twelve couple of conies, or 16s. in money; that the lessee was bound to repair the chancel, and that the vicarage, which was excepted out of the lease, was worth sixty pounds per annum.
The present lessee of the parsonage is Mr. William Fowle; the vicarage is reserved out of the lease of it, and is in the disposal of the dean and chapter.
The vicar of Boxley has belonging to him all tithes of wood, hops, hay, clover, cinquefoil, flax, wold, wool, lambs, milk, eggs, apples, cherries, and other fruit, and of pasture; his dues are, for burials, 2s. for marriages, 5s. for christenings in houses, 2s. 6d. and for churchings at church, 6d. at home, 1s. for Easter offerings he can demand of every person, above sixteen years old, 6d. so of a man and his wife, 1s.
He has a pension of 8l. per annum, payable out of the exchequer, as an augmentation; the fees for receiving of which are, if he receives it himself, 12s. if by another, 20s. (fn. 38)
¶The land the vicarage house, with its appurtenances, stands on, with the garden and court yard, is not above the third part of an acre; which, with the herbage of the church yard, is all the glebe the vicar has. The house, which is built of brick, and sashed, is handsome and commodious, and has proper offices adjoining to it. It was erected by Mr. archdeacon Spratt, whilst vicar of this parish; since which it has been considerably improved by Dr. Markham, vicar likewise, now arch bishop of York, who sometimes resided in it, as did his successor, Dr. North, now bishop of Winchester.
In 1733, the vicarage was valued at 200l. it is now 300l. per annum.
Bishop Henry de Sandford, by his decree temp. Henry III. at the petition of the vicar and parishioners, changed the feast of the dedication of this church, from the 10th of February to the Monday next after the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Hans Max Haupt, accused of aiding his son in a Nazi-organized effort to conduct sabotage in the United States during World War II, is shown in a mugshot after his arrest in 1942.
A Washington Star photo editor has placed an X over the left photograph.
Haupt was born in Germany and had served in that army during World War I. He came to the United States in 1923 and was joined by his wife Erna and their 5-year-old son Herbert in 1925. Both Hans and Erna became naturalized citizens. Hans Haupt was active in a number of German-American organizations.
The Haupt’s were charged with knowing that their son Herbert Haupt brought large sums of money with him, sheltering Haupt, buying him an automobile in Herbert’s father Hans’ name and being fully advised of their son’s plans for sabotage.
Six relatives and friends of Nazi saboteur Herbert Haupt, who was executed with five others in August 1942, faced charges of aiding Haupt in his effort to carry out sabotage of U.S. factories, transportation infrastructure and other facilities.
The six were among 14 people in the United States indicted in 1942 for aiding the eight convicted Nazi saboteurs--six of whom were executed, one received a life sentence and one received 30 years imprisonment--following a Washington, D.C. military trial.
A three week civilian trial in Chicago of those six charged with aiding the saboteurs ended November 14, 1942. Found guilty of treason and aiding and sheltering Herbert Hans Haupt were Hans and Erna Haupt, Herbert Haupt’s parents; Walter and Lucille Froehling, Herbert Haupt’s uncle and aunt; and Otto and Kate Wergin, family friends of the Haupts and Froehlings.
The prosecutor in the case summarized witness testimony by saying that Hans Haupt had “feeling only for Nazi Germany” and who said, “If I had to join the U.S. Army I would crawl over to the German lines and tell the American battle positions.”
“Look upon the Haupts. They are the cause of the shameful death of the boy, Herbert. And they assisted their son when he returned a saboteur. Did they do this because he was their son? No, they did not. They did it because he was the proud agent of the German Reich.”
On November 24th, Federal Judge William J. Campbell sentenced the three men to death and gave the women twenty-five year prison sentences and fined $10,000 each.
“The sentence must serve notice upon the enemy that the cunningly devised scheme for the use of American citizens of German birth as pawns in the game of sabotage and espionage in this country is doomed to failure.”
“How different this trial was from the treatment given in Germany to persons accused of similar offense against the German Reich.
“In pronouncing this sentence upon these six men and women this court is constrained to give full consideration to the fact that our nation, and every man, woman and child in it, are engaged in a global death struggle against forces of tyranny and evil unprecedented in the history of mankind. Our enemies seek to destroy us both by force of arms on our far flung battlefronts and through disaffection and treacherous sabotage within our borders.”
“The home front in our titanic struggle against the enemy is equally important and certainly more vulnerable than our battle lines. This is a war of people against people, as well as cannon and cannon. To endanger this home front, therefore, is as treasonable act as the act of spiking our guns in the face of the foe.”
On June 29, 1943, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the verdict, citing serious errors in the proceedings. The ruling saved the three men from the electric chair.
Among the trial errors cited was the admissibility of “confessions” that had been obtained by the FBI without advising the defendants of their right to counsel and the judge’s denial of motions to sever the defendants trials from each other.
Otto Wergin and Walter Froehling pled guilty July 22, 1944 to misprision of treason (deliberate concealment of knowledge of treason) and were sentenced to five years each in prison.
Hans M. Haupt was tried a second time, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $10,000. After his conviction a second time, Haupt attempted suicide in prison in 1946 by stabbing himself in the abdomen and left wrist 12 times with barber’s shears.
Charges were dropped against the wives of the defendants, although Erna Haupt was interred for the duration of the war, had her citizenship revoked and was deported to the American sector in Germany after the war ended.
Hans Haupt, a formerly naturalized U.S. citizen, was granted clemency by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 and scheduled for deportation to Germany.
The conditions of Haupt’s release provided that if he set foot on American soil, the clemency would be automatically revoked and he would be returned to prison for the rest of his life. Haupt had already lost his citizenship upon his conviction.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is believed to be a U.S. government photograph. It is housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
I once read a really good sentence on the Cinematic Street Photography group, that described very well what I think cinematic photography is. " Imagine pressing the pause button on your remote control and freezing a DVD movie".- James Yeung
This quote always made me want to go a bit more into the cinematic aspect with my photography. That is why I came up wih this montage, trying to reproduce an old camera film. Of course it is not a good example of a real camera film, the photos being too spaced out in time to make a good movie.
But I think it is a good compromise between cinema and photography, which is what I love.
Hope you like it.
Walter Wilhelm Froehling, 40, accused of aiding his nephew Herbert Haupt in a Nazi-organized effort to conduct sabotage in the United States during World War II, is shown in an undated photograph circa 1942.
Froehling came to the United States with his wife Lucille after World War I. Walter became a naturalized citizen in 1931 and Lucille took the citizenship oath in 1935.
Walter was an active member of the German American Bund – a pro Nazi organization active in the 1930s and apparently often verbalized pro-Nazi sentiments.
The Froehling house was the first stop that saboteur Herbert Haupt made upon arriving in Chicago. Haupt had been given the Froehling’s name as a reliable contact by the German High Command.
The Froehlings agreed that their house could be used as a safe house for meetings and Haupt left nearly $10,000 cash that they hid in their home.
The Froehlings were among six relatives and friends of Nazi saboteur Herbert Haupt--who was executed with five others in August 1942--that faced charges of aiding Haupt in his effort to carry out sabotage of U.S. factories, transportation infrastructure and other facilities.
The six were among 14 people in the United States indicted in 1942 for aiding the eight convicted Nazi saboteurs--six of whom were executed, one received a life sentence and one received 30 years imprisonment following a Washington, D.C. military trial.
A three week civilian trial in Chicago of those six charged with aiding the saboteurs ended November 14, 1942. Found guilty of treason and aiding and sheltering Herbert Hans Haupt were Hans and Erna Haupt, Herbert Haupt’s parents; Walter and Lucille Froehling, Herbert Haupt’s uncle and aunt; and Otto and Kate Wergin, family friends of the Haupts and Froehlings.
On November 24th, Federal Judge William J. Campbell sentenced the three men to death and gave the women twenty-five year prison sentences and fined $10,000 each.
“The sentence must serve notice upon the enemy that the cunningly devised scheme for the use of American citizens of German birth as pawns in the game of sabotage and espionage in this country is doomed to failure.”
“How different this trial was from the treatment given in Germany to persons accused of similar offense against the German Reich.
“In pronouncing this sentence upon these six men and women this court is constrained to give full consideration to the fact that our nation, and every man, woman and child in it, are engaged in a global death struggle against forces of tyranny and evil unprecedented in the history of mankind. Our enemies seek to destroy us both by force of arms on our far flung battlefronts and through disaffection and treacherous sabotage within our borders.”
“The home front in our titanic struggle against the enemy is equally important and certainly more vulnerable than our battle lines. This is a war of people against people, as well as cannon and cannon. To endanger this home front, therefore, is as treasonable act as the act of spiking our guns in the face of the foe.”
On June 29, 1943, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the verdict, citing serious errors in the proceedings. The ruling saved the three men from the electric chair.
Among the trial errors cited was the admissibility of “confessions” that had been obtained by the FBI without advising the defendants of their right to counsel and made before pre-trial arraignment and the judge’s denial of motions to sever the defendants trials from each other.
Otto Wergin and Walter Froehling pled guilty July 22, 1944 to misprision of treason (deliberate concealment of knowledge of treason) and were sentenced to five years each in prison.
Hans M. Haupt was tried a second time, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $10,000
Charges were dropped against the wives of the defendants, although Erna Haupt was interred for the duration of the war, had her citizenship revoked and was deported to the American sector in Germany after the war ended.
Lucille Froehling was granted a divorce from her husband and custody of the children in 1946 on the grounds that Walter Froehling had been convicted of a felony. He was serving his prison sentence at the time.
Hans Haupt, a formerly naturalized U.S. citizen, was granted clemency by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 and deported to Germany.
The conditions of Haupt’s release provided that if he set foot on American soil, the clemency would be automatically revoked and he would be returned to prison for the rest of his life. Haupt had already lost his citizenship upon his conviction.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is believed to be a U.S. government photograph. It is housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Sentencing of Paul Manafort in Virginia, by Judge Ellis. Kevin Downing, Manafort's lawyer, speaks briefly after the sentence.
On this day in history in 1990 - the Official Secrets Act 1989 came into force.
This act passed in 1989, meant that whistle blowers and journalists risk prosecution if they disclose information the British government considers to be damaging to defence or the country's interests abroad.
The new Official Secrets Act replaced section two of the 1911 act, under which it was a criminal offence to disclose information without lawful authority. It was now an offence for any member, or former member, of the security services to disclose official information about their work. It is also an offence for a journalist to repeat any such disclosures. . The blanket ban on giving away official secrets will also apply to some civil servants. The areas covered by the act include releasing information on defence, international relations, security service activities, foreign confidences and information that might lead to a crime being committed.
The maximum penalties for breaking the new law are two years' imprisonment, an unlimited fine or both. There is no public interest defence, so an official would not be able to argue in court that they broke the law in the national interest.
The tightening of the law governing official secrets follows the Clive Ponting case in 1985 who was charged, but acquitted, of breaking the 1911 secrets act after leaking two documents about the sinking of the Argentine ship, the General Belgrano, during the Falklands war. Ministers had misled the public into thinking the ship was threatening British lives, when in fact it was sailing away from the battle zone when it was attacked.
Other high-profile cases followed including the whistle blower Cathy Massiter, who escaped prosecution despite revealing in 1985 that MI5 were illegally tapping the phones of public figures, human rights campaigners and pressure groups. In 1987 the government mounted a huge legal battle to prevent the publication of former MI5 officer Peter Wright's memoirs. But Spycatcher was published in the US and Australia and copies found their way into Britain.
Since the 1990 the government has achieved a number of legal successes prosecuting under this law. In 1997, former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson was sentenced to a year in prison for passing secrets to an Australian publisher. In 2002 former MI5 officer David Shayler was jailed for six months for passing intelligence service information to a newspaper. However in February 2004 Katherine Gun, a GCHQ translator, had charges of leaking American plans to bug UN diplomats before the war in Iraq dropped.
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Comedian entertains, then provides personal message
By Victoria Choi
USAG Humphreys Public Affairs
CAMP HUMPHREYS – Bernie McGrenahan, the professional standup comedian with a message, presented his “Happy Hour” program, in the Super Gym, here, Dec. 12.
The event was hosted by the Army Substance Abuse Program of USAG Humphreys to raise awareness of suicide prevention and alcohol abuse.
“Happy Hour” is a comedy program that McGrenahan started in 1995, presenting it to more than 600 universities through 2007. That year, he brought his program to the military and now only does military bases because he wants to help the Army “stay focused and stay strong.” The show includes two parts. During the first 30 minutes, the comedian warms up the audience with his hysterical stand-up comedy material. Then, for the next half an hour or so, he gets personal and talks about himself and his life.
McGrenahan turned to alcohol abuse and partying while in high school and realized, as he grew up, the dangerous effects of it.
He said that one life-changing moment was the suicide of his 19-year-old brother, Scout, who also abused alcohol. However McGrenahan didn’t learn his lesson from that and continued to abuse alcohol. He was later cited for three DUIs. McGrenahan was given an order to appear in court, but he did not show up because he had to escape life for a while.
After taking a break and finally giving up alcohol, he went back to court and his sentence was that he had to face six months of county jail time. He explained how alcohol really injured his relationships with his mother, how he would never hang out with his other brother, Sean, because of the differences they had, and the fact that he was mentally handicapped and wasn’t the “cool” brother when he was younger.
Today, McGrenahan and his brother have a really close relationship and he always spends time with his brother whenever he is home.
“Suicide, alcohol and drug prevention is a tough, difficult subject to educate people about,” said McGrenahan. “Usually we use slides, Power Point, or videos and it is hard to keep people’s attention with these educational tools. I try to not use any of that; I try to use laughter and life experience. I want people to laugh and to think about their lives before I leave.”
“Presently, there have been over 300 suicides committed by Soldiers this year,” said Victor M. Arthur, the Camp Humphreys Suicide Prevention Program manager. “This event focused on suicide and its relation to alcohol and substance abuse.”
More than 600 soldiers enjoyed the show.
“It was a very inspiring story presented,” said Sgt. Ramon Rodriguez, assigned to the 557th Military Police Company. “I enjoyed it very much. I thank him for taking the time coming over here and sharing his personal experience. I know it is going to send a positive message to the Soldiers and hopefully they will take it in account, especially during the holiday season and stay safe.”
Private Ernest Untereiner, assigned to the 520th Maintenance Company and some other Soldiers gave McGrenahan patches of their units, so that he could give them to his brother, Sean, who would like to become a Soldier.
On 7 November 2019, Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”), unanimously, sentenced Bosco Ntaganda to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time Mr Ntaganda has spent in detention at the ICC - from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 - will be deducted from this sentence.
Seaman apprentice Roger Priest leaves his court martial at the naval air station in Washington, D.C. April 27, 1970 after being convicted of promoting disloyalty and disobedience by servicemembers. He was acquitted on more serious charges of urging desertion and sedition.
His sentencing was scheduled later in the day where he received a reprimanded, was reduced to the lowest pay grade and received a bad conduct discharge, but no jail time.
On appeal, the reprimand was removed and he was given an honorable discharge.
Priest worked in the Navy’s Office of Information at the Pentagon when he published his mimeographed alternative GI newsletter and faced charges of up to six years hard labor, forfeiture of pay and grade and a dishonorable discharge.
OM had a print run of 1000 and featured anti-Vietnam War articles and information as well as acting as a “gripe” forum for armed service members.
The court martial at the Washington Navy Yard included charges of soliciting fellow soldiers to desert, urging insubordination and making statements disloyal to the United States
The Navy charges were all based around the issue of free speech in the military and would become nationally publicized at a time when GIs were increasingly resisting the Vietnam War, including refusal of orders to go to Vietnam and refusal of orders to fight for those who shipped out.
Upon appeal, the conviction was reversed and he was granted an honorable discharge.
The following excerpts of Roger Priest’s anti-Vietnam War activities and subsequent court martial are from “His crime was speech” by Dale M. Brumfield posted on the Lessons from History site:
The Defense Department reported that in 1970, almost 245 underground presses published at least one anti-Vietnam edition on America’s military bases.
But it was one fearless sailor working inside the Pentagon, Journalist Seaman Apprentice Roger L. Priest, that pushed hardest against military boundaries and caused the Defense Department the biggest headaches.
Roger Priest entered the Navy in October 1967 and was transferred to the Pentagon’s office of Navy Information in January 1968.
“I was anti-Vietnam before I got into the service,” Priest told Washington Post writer Nicholas von Hoffman. “I thought I could live this lie … and I’m not even killing, I’m just shuffling papers.”
Throughout 1968, Priest became more disgusted with America’s role in Southeast Asia, leading him to create the only underground paper published by someone who actually worked inside the Pentagon. It was published on his own time and with his own funds and was one of the few such papers to use the creator’s real name instead of a pseudonym.
“How many more women and children must be burned before the people of the United States realize the horrendous crime they are committing against a peasant people?” he wrote in his paper he called OM — the Servicemen’s Newsletter before later changing it to Om — the Liberation Newsletter.
1,000 copies of the first mimeographed issue of OM appeared on April 1, 1969. The next morning, within 90 minutes of arriving at his desk, he was abruptly reassigned to the Navy and Marines Exhibit Center at the Washington Navy Yard. “I don’t care if they send me to the North Pole,” Priest told the Washington Post, “I’ll write my stuff on ice cubes if I have to.”
Exercising his First Amendment rights while knowing full well he was placing himself in the U.S. Navy’s crosshairs, Priest published a second edition of OM on May 1, then a third one on June 1, each with a press run of 1,000 copies.
Priest also raised the ire of the Navy when he made an antiwar group the beneficiary of his service life insurance and urged other soldiers to do the same. In his case, if he was killed by the Viet Cong in Southeast Asia, the War Resistor’s League would receive his $10,000 payout.
OM was unapologetically blunt. “Today’s Pigs are tomorrow’s bacon” stated one headline in issue two that described Joint Chiefs Chairman General Earl Wheeler. OM called Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird “People’s enemy no. 1” and “a practicing prostitute and a pimp.”
Other statements appearing in the paper that crossed the Navy included “Our goal is liberation … by any means necessary,” and “Shoot a pig!” A headline in another issue read “Be Free Go Canada,” then listed the addresses of groups in Canada aiding military deserters. The article also explained that “landed immigrant status” was available in Canada to deserters.
On June 12, 1969 Priest was interrogated about OM by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Three days later, fourteen official charges were lodged against him, including soliciting fellow soldiers to desert, urging insubordination, making statements disloyal to the United States, using “contemptuous words” against South Carolina Representative L. Mendel Rivers, and worse, not stating in the paper that his statements were his own opinions, and not those of the U.S. Navy.Von Hoffmann wrote on June 25, 1969, that Priest was accused of “everything that’s happened to the Navy except perhaps stealing the [U.S.S.] Pueblo.” Priest also noticed at this time that he was being followed around by civilians in Ford Fairlanes and Plymouth Valiants.
“… This whole thing hinges on free speech, freedom of the press,” Priest told von Hoffman. “They’re not talking about my military behavior … they’re talking about what I do on my own free time, outside of the Navy, in my own apartment … in other words my rights as an American citizen.”
In July, Priest published a special “Best & Worst” issue of OM in conjunction with a defense fund called LINK, “The Servicemen’s Link to Peace.” On July 21, Priest — holding a sign that read “My crime is speech” — led a demonstration of about 100 people in front of the National Archives building. The next day an article 32 pre-court martial investigation convened at the Naval Air Station in Anacostia.
Just over 100 members of the Navy Ceremonial Guard armed with M-1 rifles, live ammo and gas masks stood watch as Navy aviator Commander Norman Mills conducted the proceedings. Priest was represented pro-Bono by Washington Attorney David Rein.
“If I can be put away for a number of years in prison for the mere writing of words — an act so basic to the founding of this country that it finds its basis in the First Amendment of the Constitution — then my crime is speech,” Priest said in his opening statement. “But let me tell you this: OM will go on, for others will take up the pen where I leave off.”
During this trial, the prosecution admitted that approximately 25 naval intelligence agents were assigned to follow and harass Priest (hence the Fairlanes and Valiants). Furthermore, when a letter found in Priest’s trash was introduced as evidence, ONI special agent Robert Howard testified that the Washington DC department of sanitation provided a truck exclusively for trash pickup at Priest’s apartment building.
Attorney Rein said that this activity alone “brought more discredit on the armed services than anything Roger Priest has done.”
A furious DC Mayor Walter Washington promised a “full and complete investigation” of the sanitation department when director, William Roeder was quoted as saying “If the police ask us to do this, we cooperate with them.” He later denied making the statement.
“City Denies Trash Spying” trumpeted the Washington Post in embarrassing contradiction to the testimony of ONI Agent Howard.
Despite the disorganization of the proceedings, Priest was ordered to appear before a general court-martial on charges that he solicited members of the military to desert and commit sedition, and that he published statements “urging insubordination, disloyalty, and refusal of duty by members of the military and naval forces with intent to impair loyalty, morale and discipline.”
The combined charges carried a maximum sentence of 39 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge.
During this time Priest kept a low profile at his Navy job, obeying orders and being careful to not break a single regulation. His strategy was to force the Navy to court-martial him only for OM’s contents, which he created on his own time, and not on some extraneous charge that disguised the political nature of his battle.
Not to be held down, Priest published “The Court-Martial Edition” of OM in October 1969.
In it, OM bestowed the “Green Weenie” award to the “25+” people “assigned to gather information, interrogate, follow and harass” him.
“ONI left no stone unturned or garbage can unmolested, nor did they mind to stoop to entrapment in trying to deny the constitutional rights of free speech and free press to Seaman Roger Priest,” OM declared.
By April, Priest had become a hero to other like-minded servicemen across the country. LINK Director Carl Rogers estimated his organization spent over $17,000 in buttons, posters, postage and travel expenses for Priest’s speaking engagements.
“No group like ours,” Rogers warned, “can begin to counter the resources and the manpower of the Pentagon … to harass and oppress dissenters.” Rogers also reported, however, that the court-martial had backfired on the Pentagon, resulting in about 10,000 reprints of OM (far more than the original press run of 1,000) and 10,000 “OM” buttons distributed in a little over two months.
Priest gained support from the infamous Chicago 7 — Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner
Priest also gained an unlikely ally when New York Senator Charles Goodell issued a statement September 5 that said in part, “When Roger Priest enlisted in the Navy, he accepted certain well-defined responsibilities as a soldier. He did not, however, forfeit his constitutional rights as a citizen of the United States.”
The court-martial board convicted Priest only on two minor counts of promoting “disloyalty and disaffection among members of the armed forces.” They recommended Priest be reprimanded, reduced to the lowest pay grade and receive a bad conduct discharge, but no jail time.
Thrilled with the outcome, Attorney Rein said he would nonetheless appeal the bad conduct discharge.
On February 11, 1971, a panel of Navy appeals judges reversed that conviction and awarded Priest an honorable discharge, citing the grounds of reversal on a “technical error” by Judge Raymond Perkins where he failed to explain to the court-martial that disloyalty to the Navy or a superior officer was not the same as disloyalty to the United States.
Also, upon review of the case, the reprimand was dropped by Rear Admiral George Koch, commandant of the Washington Naval District.
Priest’s case presented a conundrum regarding military dissent: How does a country impress young men into the army to fight a war they ideologically oppose or even outright despise? Are men so profoundly disaffected reliable soldiers?
An anonymous columnist proposed a somewhat cynical solution off-record to von Hoffman: “You can’t fight imperialist wars [anymore] with conscript armies. You have to use mercenaries.”
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Otto Wergin, accused of aiding his friends’ son Herbert Haupt in a Nazi-organized effort to conducted sabotage in the United States during World War II, is shown in a mugshot after his arrest in 1942.
A Washington Star photo editor has placed an X over the image on the left.
Otto Wergin was born in 1896 in Arenswalde, Germany and served in the German Navy during World War I. He came to the came to the United States from Konigsberg, Prussia with his wife Kate and two children in 1926. The couple lived in Chicago with their son Wolfgang, born in 1924, and daughter Irene, born in 1922.
Wergin became a naturalized citizen in 1936 and was alleged to have been a close associate of the German-American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization.
The Wergins were charged with being fully advised of Haupt’s plans for sabotage. Their son Wolfgang had also accompanied Haupt on his trip to Germany in 1940 where Haupt was recruited as a spy. Wolfgang served in the Nazi regime’s army on the Eastern Front for three years during World War II.
Six relatives and friends of Nazi saboteur Herbert Haupt, who was executed with five others in August 1942, faced charges of aiding Haupt in his effort to carry out sabotage of U.S. factories, transportation infrastructure and other facilities.
The six were among 14 people in the United States indicted in 1942 for aiding the eight convicted Nazi saboteurs--six of whom were executed, one received a life sentence and one received 30 years imprisonment following a Washington, D.C. military trial.
A three week civilian trial in Chicago of those six charged with aiding the saboteurs ended November 14, 1942. Found guilty of treason and aiding and sheltering Herbert Hans Haupt were Hans and Erna Haupt, Herbert Haupt’s parents; Walter and Lucille Froehling, Herbert Haupt’s uncle and aunt; and Otto and Kate Wergin, family friends of the Haupts and Froehlings.
On November 24th, Federal Judge William J. Campbell sentenced the three men to death and gave the women twenty-five year prison sentences and fined $10,000 each.
“The sentence must serve notice upon the enemy that the cunningly devised scheme for the use of American citizens of German birth as pawns in the game of sabotage and espionage in this country is doomed to failure.”
“How different this trial was from the treatment given in Germany to persons accused of similar offense against the German Reich.
“In pronouncing this sentence upon these six men and women this court is constrained to give full consideration to the fact that our nation, and every man, woman and child in it, are engaged in a global death struggle against forces of tyranny and evil unprecedented in the history of mankind. Our enemies seek to destroy us both by force of arms on our far flung battlefronts and through disaffection and treacherous sabotage within our borders.”
“The home front in our titanic struggle against the enemy is equally important and certainly more vulnerable than our battle lines. This is a war of people against people, as well as cannon and cannon. To endanger this home front, therefore, is as treasonable act as the act of spiking our guns in the face of the foe.”
On June 29, 1943, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the verdict, citing serious errors in the proceedings. The ruling saved the three men from the electric chair.
Among the trial errors cited was the admissibility of “confessions” that had been obtained by the FBI without advising the defendants of their right to counsel and prior to their arraignment on charges. The judge’s denial of motions to sever the defendants trials from each other was another error.
Otto Wergin and Walter Froehling pled guilty July 22, 1944 to misprision of treason (deliberate concealment of knowledge of treason) and were sentenced to five years each in prison.
Hans M. Haupt was tried a second time on treason charges, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $10,000
Charges were dropped against the wives of the defendants, including Kate Wergin. However, Erna Haupt was interred for the duration of the war, had her citizenship revoked and was deported to the American sector in Germany after the war ended.
Hans Haupt, a formerly naturalized U.S. citizen, was granted clemency by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 and scheduled for deportation to Germany.
The conditions of Haupt’s release provided that if he set foot on American soil, the clemency would be automatically revoked and he would be returned to prison for the rest of his life. Haupt had already lost his citizenship upon his conviction.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is believed to be a U.S. government photograph. It is housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
TEXT: The Supreme Court sentenced Army captain Pedro Fernandez
Dittus to 600 days in prison for his responsibility in the burning
death of Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri and the serious burns sustained by
Carmen Gloria Quintana in July 1986.
This ruling, in what has come to be known as
"Caso Quemados", doubled a 1991 sentence from the Martial Court,
which had sentenced Fernandez to 300 days imprisonment and
which was later suspended. Fernandez has no chance of having his
600 day sentence suspended, but the 180 days he spent in prison in
1986 will be discounted.
The victims' family lawyers had appealed the Martial Court
decision that held Fernandez responsible for mere negligence in the
death of Rodrigo Rojas. Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling was
divided. Judge Adolfo Banados, lawyer German Vidal, and Army
general auditor Fernando Torres Silva voted for the 600 day
sentence under charges of negligence; Judges Mario Garrido and
Eleodoro Ortiz and lawyer Eugenio Velasco voted for a sentence of
five years for murder and 541 days for serious injuries. In case of a
tie vote, the Code of Justice establishes that the sentence most
favorable to the accused prevail.
On the morning of July 2, 1986, a day of national protest
against the military dictatorship, a military patrol commanded by
Fernandez Dittus intercepted a group of young people in Los Nogales,
municipality of Estacion Central in the capital. All escaped except
Rojas and Quintana, who were severely beaten by military personnel,
and later soaked with gasoline and set afire. Once in flames and
unconscious, patrol members wrapped them in blankets and drove
them to an isolated road in the outskirts of Santiago.
Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana were taken to a
hospital by local dwellers who found them, but Rojas died four days
later due to his injuries. Carmen Gloria Quintana underwent a long
medical treatment in Chile and Canada, but still sustains disfiguring
scars as a result of her burns.
The final sentence states that Fernandez Dittus did not take
enough precautions in the "accidental combustion" of inflammable
material, and that he was negligent in not taking the two to a
hospital on time.
Lawyer Hector Salazar, representing the DeNegri and Quintana
families, affirmed that the sentence is too lenient, and is not
proportional to the crime committed and the commotion it caused in
Chile and abroad.
Carmen Gloria Quintana was also upset with the sentencing,
saying that it reflects "a country divided among those who recognize
that there were human rights violations and injustice and those who
keep denying it."
"For me this sentence is very painful," said Quintana, "because
it was our last opportunity for justice... I have waited eight years for
justice, and they sentence him to only 600 days. Something broke
inside me today; I don't know how I will explain all that happened
to my daughter."
Fernandez Dittus was a lieutenant in 1986. A year after Rojas'
death and Quintana's burns, he was promoted to captain. He will
now probably be dismissed from the Army.
Sentencing of Paul Manafort in Virginia, by Judge Ellis. Reporters run out with news of the sentence imposed.
The Committee to Defend Marie Richardson Harris publishes an 8-page description of the case and appeals for help defending Ms. Harris who was sentenced to prison for failing to disclose communist affiliations on a government job application.
Harris was a black woman organizer for the United Federal Workers, CIO—believed to be the first full time black woman employed by a national labor union and later served as executive secretary of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the National Negro Congress.
She worked briefly at the Library of Congress with non-classified materials and at the time of her arrest was living in New York City and operating a dry cleaning establishment with her husband.
She was charged with being a member of the Communist Party and the National Negro Congress, both of which were designated as subversive organizations by the U.S. Attorney General..
Her defense committee had a fundraiser broken up by D.C. police and itself was later designated as a subversive organization by the U.S. government.
She served four-and-one-half years in prison.
For a PDF of this 8-page pamphlet, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/1952-case-of-...
For a blog post on Marie Richardson Harris, see washingtonareaspark.com/2012/11/19/a-dc-labor-civil-right...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsjCTUPan
Courtesy of A334. Richardson, Marie. N.d. Papers of the Civil Rights Congress. New York Public Library. Archives Unbound. Web. 22 Aug. 2019. .Gale Document Number:SC500534674
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Proverbs 16:10 King James Version
The sanctuary of the Beata Maria Vergine delle Grazie is a church of Lombard Gothic style located in the small village of Curtatone (Mantua - Italy).
Toward the end of the XIV century, the plague struck the city of Mantua and claimed thousands of victims.
The Virgin Mary invoked by the population miraculously stopped the lethal epidemic. Therefore the city ruler Francesco Gonzaga erected the shrine to the Madonna "per grazia ricevuta", for grace received.
Built on a large square, the basilica overlooks the marshy waters of the lakes that surround Mantova, creating an evocative atmosphere for the numerous groups of tourists and faithful devotees of the Madonna.
Eighty niches arranged on two parallel rows, housed statues-mannequins in various poses and situations representing episodes of escaped danger by intercession of the Virgin.
Central to the history and life of the Sanctuary is the Solemnity of the Assumption, August 15th. From the early morning the streets of the village are invaded by a multitude of pilgrims, and later by the visitors of a traditional trade fair, which has reached an international fame for over thirty years thanks to the presence of the "Madonnari" who with their coloured chalks change the square pavement into a phantasmagorical carpet, reproducting famous paintings of sacred subject.
Syntactic Structure of the sentence, "John hit the ball." An example of grammar analysis.
I used this diagram to illustrate a blog post, "Google Penalty for Low Quality Writing?" In that post, I describe how the search engines like Google could easily be performing some basic-level text analysis and spellchecking in order to automatically generate quality scores for documents. Spammers and lower-quality sites often use a combination of algorithmically-generated text, screen-scraped text, and offshore writers to create a corpus of text for webpages in order to appear relevant for keyword phrases. However, using grammar analysis, Google could penalize such sites for poor sentence composition, nonsensical sentences, and spelling errors.
A paragraph demonstrating what it describes in wonderfully clear sentences that made me wonder how much revision it took the author to fit it all together just right. From page 20 in this 2005 book that I’ve starting reading on my Kindle.
William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien (Irish: Liam Mac Gabhann Ó Briain; 17 October 1803 – 18 June 1864) was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He also encouraged the use of the Irish language. He was convicted of sedition for his part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, but his sentence of death was commuted to deportation to Van Diemen's Land. In 1854, he was released on the condition of exile from Ireland, and he lived in Brussels for two years. In 1856 O'Brien was pardoned and returned to Ireland, but he was never active again in politics.
Early life- Born in Dromoland, Newmarket on Fergus, County Clare, he was the second son of Sir Edward O'Brien, 4th Baronet, of Dromoland Castle. William took the additional surname Smith, his mother's maiden name, upon inheriting property through her. He inherited and lived at Cahermoyle House, a mile from Ardagh, County Limerick. He was a descendant of the eleventh century Ard Rí (High King of Ireland), Brian Boru. He received an upper-class English education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Politics- From April 1828 to 1831 he was Conservative MP for Ennis. He became MP for Limerick County in 1835, holding his seat in the House of Commons until 1848. Although a Protestant, he supported Catholic Emancipation while remaining a supporter of British-Irish union. In 1843, in protest against the imprisonment of Daniel O'Connell, he joined O'Connell's anti-union Repeal Association.
Three years later, disillusioned by O'Connell, O'Brien withdrew the Young Irelanders from the association. With Thomas Francis Meagher, in January 1847 he founded the Irish Confederation. In March 1848, he spoke out in favour of a National Guard and tried to incite a national rebellion. He was tried for sedition on May 15, 1848 but was not convicted.
Irish language- O'Brien was a founding member of the Ossianic Society, whose aim was further the interests of the Irish language and to publish and translate literature relating to the Fianna.
He wrote to his son Edward from Van Diemen's Land, urging him to learn the Irish language. He himself studied the language and used an Irish-language Bible, and presented to the Royal Irish Academy Irish-language manuscripts he had collected. He enjoyed the respect of Clare poets (the county being largely Irish speaking at the time), and in 1863, on his advice, Irish was introduced into a number of schools there.
Rebellion and transportation- Removal of Smith O'Brien under sentence of death
Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848
On 29 July 1848, O'Brien and other Young Irelanders led landlords and tenants in a rising in three counties, with an almost bloodless battle against police at Ballingarry, County Tipperary. In O'Brien's subsequent trial, the jury found him guilty of high treason. He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Petitions for clemency were signed by 70,000 people in Ireland and 10,000 people in England.
In Dublin on 5 June 1849, the sentences of O'Brien and other members of the Irish Confederation were commuted to transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania in present-day Australia).
O'Brien attempted to escape from Maria Island off Tasmania, but was betrayed by Ellis, captain of the schooner hired for the escape. He was sent to Port Arthur where he met up with John Mitchel, who had been transported before the rebellion. The cottages which O'Brien lived in on Maria Island and Port Arthur have been preserved in their 19th century state as memorials.
Having emigrated to the United States, Ellis was tried by another Young Irelanders leader, Terence MacManus, at a lynch court in San Francisco for the betrayal of O'Brien. He was freed for lack of evidence.
Statue on Dublin's O'Connell Street
In 1854, after five years in Tasmania, O'Brien was released on the condition he never return to Ireland. He settled in Brussels. In May 1856, he was granted an unconditional pardon and returned to Ireland that July. He played no further part in politics.
Legacy- There is a statue of him on O'Connell Street, Dublin.
His older brother Lucius O'Brien (1800–1872) was also a Member of Parliament for County Clare.
His sister was Harriet O'Brien who married an Anglican priest but was soon widowed. As Harriet Monsell, she founded the order of Anglican nuns, the Community of St John Baptist, in Clewer, Windsor, in 1851. The gold cross she wore, and which still belongs to the Community, was made with gold panned by her brother during his exile in Australia.
Quotes
“The new Irish flag would be Orange and Green, and would be known as the Irish tricolour”
“To find a gaol in one of the lovliest spots formed by Nature in one of her lonliest solitudes creates a revulsion of feeling I cannot describe”
Ref wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_O'Brien
Paul MIki, a Jesuit scholastic of Japanese birth and descent said these words from the Cross where he hung dying:
"The sentence of judgment says these men came to Japan from the Philippines, but I did not come from any other country. I am a true Japanese. The only reason for my being killed is that I have taught the doctrine of Christ. I certainly did teach the doctrine of Christ. I thank God it is for this reason I die. I believe that I am telling only the truth before I die. I know you believe me and I want to say to you all once again: Ask Christ to help you to become happy. I obey Christ. After Christ’s example I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain.
Having arrived at this moment of my existence, I believe that no one of you thinks I want to hide the truth. That is why I declare to you that there is no other way of salvation than the one followed by Christians. Since this way teaches me to forgive my enemies and all who have offended me, I willingly forgive the king and all those who have desired my death. And I pray that they will obtain the desire of Christian baptism.”
St Paul Miki was martyred with 25 others at Nishizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan on 5 February 1597.
This statue of the saint being crucified is in the museum built on the site of his martyrdom.
Amanda's very-first-ever Ren Fair experience!! Peter and I try to go
to the Ren Fair, which is held at the town of Larkspur, at least once
a year. And no, that last sentence was NOT a typo ... the Ren Fair
pretty much IS the town of Larkspur. Allow us to take you on an
epic, epic journey through the heart of a magical adventure that can
only be expressed by two words: Turkey shank.
Here we are at the entrance to the Renaissance Fairgrounds, being
heckled by what I can only assume is a fairy, a jester and a very
confused homeless man.
It is Peter Robinson's tradition to buy at least one ice-cream
sandwich to eat at the Renaissance Fair from the dirty old cart
vendor. Here he is, standing in front of Ye Olde Dragon Climbing
Tower looking nobly into the distance ...
Here are Peter and Amanda, enjoying Peter's ice cream sandwich
together. As we all know, usually this kind of encroaching on food
would get a man killed in Peter's presence, but Amanda has just
suffered through the horrors of Ye Olde Privy. For those less savvy
of you, thaaaat's a port-o-potty.
DAMMIT! If I had known I could get a totally awesome Gandalf style
walking stick no WAY would I have thrown down for those collapsible
lightweight walking sticks from REI!!
At the Renaissance Fair, a magical alternate universe, they WANT you
to touch them.
Yes, people, didgeridoos. At the Ren Fair. We know.
"Please touch."
"OK, but maybe not you. You're sketchy."
This picture needs no justification. I love you, Satan.
Notice that as the day wears on the awesomeness of our pictures
increases exponentially.
Amanda and I got on the swing together! My new husband insisted that
he couldn't join us because "simple harmonic rides make me vomit."
Then he took another sip of his cider from his stein, which by this
point had turkey gristle floating in it.
You may not be able to extrapolate it from this photo, but in about .
5 seconds, Amanda Schuldt is going to kick this man pushing our swing
directly in the balls. As Amanda puts, "there was full, up-tunic
contact, with a distinct squishing sensation". Best 3 dollars I ever
spent.
Peter Robinson: Your New Wife.
Your New, Graceful and Tactful Wife.
The one with the lazy eye.
PEOPLE. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND. THIS IS A WEDDING PROCESSIONAL.
THE GIRL IN WHITE JUST GOT MARRIED. LIKE, FOR REALS. AT THE
RENAISSANCE FAIR. I'm sorry for my urgent tone. It's just that this
is the fate I narrowly escaped.
Not all wedding processionals are attended by Johnny Depp and his pet
elephant!
This is my photojournalistic side coming out. I want you all to
really look at what this woman is eating. I mean reaaaally look.
(It helps if you know that in the background the bar wenches are
singing "I married a man with no balls.")
I have no words. OTHER THAN HUZZAH!!!
Once again, the photojournalist within. This image has SOOOOO much
going for it. We have the dude in the awesome Green Lantern t-shirt,
who obviously thought he was going to ComiCon and is saddened and
confused by the fixation of this place on swords and fairies. You
have the 3 year old being smothered by an inappropriately large
pirate hat. And you have the man I assume to be the proud father,
wearing a full-on hiker's pack but failing to see the utility of a
shirt.
I do not know what kind of "history lessons" this gentleman is
pimping but I feel confident they end with tears and a moist towelette.
Ima and her husband of 12 years, married at the Renaissance Fair a
week from today, with the giddy couple.
Amanda, looking happier and happier every time we see her with that
beer stein, also with the creepy clown couple.
The road not taken ... the Ren Fair wedding chapel.
"Yay!! We DIDN'T get married HERE!"
OK, guys. I was a little upset about the ice cream sandwiches and
the didgeridoos, but SERIOUSLY, the llama is PUSHING IT.
Mugs! Made out of the finest leather and plywood money can buy!!
OK, SERIOUSLY??? The llama, and now there are TWO COMPETING
didgeridoo vendors at the REN FAIR?? Goddammit.
Seriously, happier and happier ...
Now THIS is why I come to the Ren Fair!!
Ladies and gentlemen, my husband. A very special, special man.
Let's analyze: Root Beer Float stand, "I'm voting for Pedro" t-
shirt, ice cream sundae with whipped cream and chocolate toppings.
There is NOTHING in this picture that is even remotely connected to
the Renaissance, but that's okay because Peter Robinson has a look of
joy on his face that can only be expressed by a boyman with special
treat.
There are times at the fair when you capture a scene so inherently
geektastic that it imprints on you eternally. This scene of the
pasty white boy with the long hair and no business walking around
without a shirt on but STILL WITH A GIRL is one of them. Miracles
can happen, boys.
The joust!!!! OK, so I know this picture is awesome, but there are
some elements that made this scene even more awesome on an aural
level. There was a man on a side-stage with a mini carillon (for
those of you who aren't familiar, that is the instrument made out of
bells that people play in old-school bell towers) and a synthesizer.
He played the opening to Carmina Burana. ON A CARILLON. EPIC.
I challenge you!!
Oh SNAP! He's dismounted and that dude is jousting him in the FACE!
Continued chaos and hilarity.
Boo yeah.
SWORDFIGHT!!
Walking around and finding old architecture that takes you back in time is really a privilege. Arguably the oldest town in Connecticut, Wethersfield captivates for the amount of old houses that still stand, going back to the 1600s, the 1700s, the 1800s and the early 1900s. It was founded in 1634 by a Puritan settlement party of "10 Men," including John Oldham, Robert Seeley, Thomas Topping, and Nathaniel Foote. The town is also well-known because of the four witch trials that took place in the 17th century, including those of Mary Johnson, and John and Joan Carrington, all of them sentenced to death. Katherine Harrison was convicted but she was ultimately released and banished from the town. The district of Old Wethersfield—the sector where these pictures were taken—is the largest historic district in the State of Connecticut, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Caminar y encontrar arquitectura que nos transporta en el tiempo, es en verdad un privilegio. Considerado el pueblo más antiguo en Connecticut, Wethersfield cautiva por la cantidad de casas antiguas que aún se preservan, y que datan de los siglos XVII, XVIII, XIX y principios del siglo XX. Fue fundado en 1634 por un grupo de “10 Hombres” de un asentamiento Puritano, que incluía a John Oldham, Robert Seeley, Thomas Topping, y Nathaniel Foote. El pueblo también es conocido por los cuatro juicios por brujería que tuvieron lugar en el siglo XVII, incluyendo los de Mary Johnson y John y Joan Carrington, todos sentenciados a muerte. Katherine Harrison fue también condenada pero definitivamente liberada y desterrada del pueblo. El distrito de Old Wethersfield (Viejo Wethersfield)—el sector donde se tomaron estas fotos—es el distrito histórico más grande del Estado de Connecticut, fue añadido al Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos en 1970.
Amanda's very-first-ever Ren Fair experience!! Peter and I try to go
to the Ren Fair, which is held at the town of Larkspur, at least once
a year. And no, that last sentence was NOT a typo ... the Ren Fair
pretty much IS the town of Larkspur. Allow us to take you on an
epic, epic journey through the heart of a magical adventure that can
only be expressed by two words: Turkey shank.
Here we are at the entrance to the Renaissance Fairgrounds, being
heckled by what I can only assume is a fairy, a jester and a very
confused homeless man.
It is Peter Robinson's tradition to buy at least one ice-cream
sandwich to eat at the Renaissance Fair from the dirty old cart
vendor. Here he is, standing in front of Ye Olde Dragon Climbing
Tower looking nobly into the distance ...
Here are Peter and Amanda, enjoying Peter's ice cream sandwich
together. As we all know, usually this kind of encroaching on food
would get a man killed in Peter's presence, but Amanda has just
suffered through the horrors of Ye Olde Privy. For those less savvy
of you, thaaaat's a port-o-potty.
DAMMIT! If I had known I could get a totally awesome Gandalf style
walking stick no WAY would I have thrown down for those collapsible
lightweight walking sticks from REI!!
At the Renaissance Fair, a magical alternate universe, they WANT you
to touch them.
Yes, people, didgeridoos. At the Ren Fair. We know.
"Please touch."
"OK, but maybe not you. You're sketchy."
This picture needs no justification. I love you, Satan.
Notice that as the day wears on the awesomeness of our pictures
increases exponentially.
Amanda and I got on the swing together! My new husband insisted that
he couldn't join us because "simple harmonic rides make me vomit."
Then he took another sip of his cider from his stein, which by this
point had turkey gristle floating in it.
You may not be able to extrapolate it from this photo, but in about .
5 seconds, Amanda Schuldt is going to kick this man pushing our swing
directly in the balls. As Amanda puts, "there was full, up-tunic
contact, with a distinct squishing sensation". Best 3 dollars I ever
spent.
Peter Robinson: Your New Wife.
Your New, Graceful and Tactful Wife.
The one with the lazy eye.
PEOPLE. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND. THIS IS A WEDDING PROCESSIONAL.
THE GIRL IN WHITE JUST GOT MARRIED. LIKE, FOR REALS. AT THE
RENAISSANCE FAIR. I'm sorry for my urgent tone. It's just that this
is the fate I narrowly escaped.
Not all wedding processionals are attended by Johnny Depp and his pet
elephant!
This is my photojournalistic side coming out. I want you all to
really look at what this woman is eating. I mean reaaaally look.
(It helps if you know that in the background the bar wenches are
singing "I married a man with no balls.")
I have no words. OTHER THAN HUZZAH!!!
Once again, the photojournalist within. This image has SOOOOO much
going for it. We have the dude in the awesome Green Lantern t-shirt,
who obviously thought he was going to ComiCon and is saddened and
confused by the fixation of this place on swords and fairies. You
have the 3 year old being smothered by an inappropriately large
pirate hat. And you have the man I assume to be the proud father,
wearing a full-on hiker's pack but failing to see the utility of a
shirt.
I do not know what kind of "history lessons" this gentleman is
pimping but I feel confident they end with tears and a moist towelette.
Ima and her husband of 12 years, married at the Renaissance Fair a
week from today, with the giddy couple.
Amanda, looking happier and happier every time we see her with that
beer stein, also with the creepy clown couple.
The road not taken ... the Ren Fair wedding chapel.
"Yay!! We DIDN'T get married HERE!"
OK, guys. I was a little upset about the ice cream sandwiches and
the didgeridoos, but SERIOUSLY, the llama is PUSHING IT.
Mugs! Made out of the finest leather and plywood money can buy!!
OK, SERIOUSLY??? The llama, and now there are TWO COMPETING
didgeridoo vendors at the REN FAIR?? Goddammit.
Seriously, happier and happier ...
Now THIS is why I come to the Ren Fair!!
Ladies and gentlemen, my husband. A very special, special man.
Let's analyze: Root Beer Float stand, "I'm voting for Pedro" t-
shirt, ice cream sundae with whipped cream and chocolate toppings.
There is NOTHING in this picture that is even remotely connected to
the Renaissance, but that's okay because Peter Robinson has a look of
joy on his face that can only be expressed by a boyman with special
treat.
There are times at the fair when you capture a scene so inherently
geektastic that it imprints on you eternally. This scene of the
pasty white boy with the long hair and no business walking around
without a shirt on but STILL WITH A GIRL is one of them. Miracles
can happen, boys.
The joust!!!! OK, so I know this picture is awesome, but there are
some elements that made this scene even more awesome on an aural
level. There was a man on a side-stage with a mini carillon (for
those of you who aren't familiar, that is the instrument made out of
bells that people play in old-school bell towers) and a synthesizer.
He played the opening to Carmina Burana. ON A CARILLON. EPIC.
I challenge you!!
Oh SNAP! He's dismounted and that dude is jousting him in the FACE!
Continued chaos and hilarity.
Boo yeah.
SWORDFIGHT!!
As a renovator the 3-x-3 Post-it note can restore a home better than paint and new siding. It can repair more things than duct tape. As a daily supplement -- given (not taken) every day like a multivitamin -- it fosters growth in the relationships of spouses, lovers, parents and their children; it can nourish souls; and, in my case, correct poor vision.
Story goes like this: One day a few years ago I told my wife, "I love you." Nothing unusual there. During 15 years of marriage (20 now) I'd said those three words to her 5,475 times (365 x 15 minus a dozen or so arguments each year offset by extra sentiments added like sweetener each anniversary, birthday and Valentine's).
This time, however, my wife's response was unusual. Maybe we'd been arguing and/or drifting into our separate work and projects. I honestly don't recall.
"Why?" she responded, hugging me.
"Why what?"
"Why do you love me? Why me?"
Her question wasn't rhetorical. There were many reasons I loved her, but I couldn't recall the last time I'd bothered to articulate many or any of them. Put on the spot, I waved her off, used a question to fend off the question.
"Why? What do you mean, 'Why?' Why do you love me? That's the harder question."
I'm an early riser, always first in the house. The next morning, before pouring my second mug of coffee, I repeated her question by writing it on a yellow Post-it note. I then answered it in a sentence or two. In order to tell you exactly what I wrote (assuming I would) I'd have to dig through an unsorted, sticky pile of 365 Post-its. But my response isn't the point.
The next morning I repeated and answered her question again. I scribbled "Day 2 of 365" on top of the Post-it, pretty much committing myself to a year of responses. No big deal. Restricting my thoughts/observations/praise to a 3-by-3 inch yellow square meant I had to be succinct. Each note consumed less than a minute.
However, the legwork that went into each note required a shift in my perspective.
By the time I wrote Day 7 of 365 my gratitudes had begun sounding like platitudes. "I love you because you're a good mother to our two sons" is nice, but trite. To keep the notes fresh I had to glean new material each day. I had to keep my eyes peeled for good anecdotes and things to praise. That is, instead of reacting to petty things that irritate every long-term relationship, I began noticing the simple things that sustain them. For example, the way she spent twenty minutes each day watering our baby pear tree. I'd never even known. Or the way she was the first to volunteer to keep stats for my Little League team when the regular scorekeeper was absent.
So by Day 33 of 365 I clearly understood why she was bedridden. She had caught the flu from our oldest son (then age 10) because she was a good mother, i.e., loving, empathic, selfless. Her immune system hadn't stood a chance in the face of her hands-on care. The day her fever peaked at 102 my Post-it read, "... [Y]ou loved our eldest and loved on him so much you made yourself sick. Even our 8-year-old (now 13) saw it coming. 'What is Mom thinking?' he asked me. 'She isn't,' I said. 'Sometimes love doesn't think. It just does.'"
Winter turned to spring and spring to summer before I realized that my wife and I weren't arguing as often. The habit of recording her qualities had made my gripes seem trivial. In return, my daily appreciations had encouraged her to give me more slack whenever I screwed up. It was a win-win.
A year later I was telling this story to my first book editor (Sheryl Fullerton of Wiley) in a crowded restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California. Before I could finish it I felt someone standing over my shoulder, like a waiter or waitress. I looked up and it was a young man, a customer from a nearby table. When he spoke his voice trembled.
"I've been listening to you and I just want to say, 'Thank you.'"
Tears pooled in his eyes. He explained that he was semi-estranged from his parents, and, while listening to me describe my Post-it therapy, he'd realized how much he had failed to appreciate his mother and father. Like most parents, his were selfless but imperfect. He now wished that he had focused on the former rather than the latter.
Me too, again, and before it's too late. But my regret tracks in the opposite direction of his.
A loved one told me recently that I can be too critical of my sons. They are now teenagers, with all of the computers and video games and iPods that come with that age. Screens, screens, screens, it seems I am always screaming about screens. That's not likely to change.
However, I need to focus on the larger picture. I know this. I just forget. So on New Years Day I filled out a Post-it appreciation for each son. On one, I mentioned how much I love that he is patient and tender with our dog, Kona. On the other, I mentioned how much I enjoyed his thought-provoking insights on politics and war.
Both of my kids have huge hearts and engaging minds. But those descriptions are vague, trite. If I hope to get a year's worth of material, I need to be specific. I need anecdotes and things to praise. I need an open mind and eyes that stay open. I need to pay better attention.
So, wish me luck. It's Day 2 of 365.
Amanda's very-first-ever Ren Fair experience!! Peter and I try to go
to the Ren Fair, which is held at the town of Larkspur, at least once
a year. And no, that last sentence was NOT a typo ... the Ren Fair
pretty much IS the town of Larkspur. Allow us to take you on an
epic, epic journey through the heart of a magical adventure that can
only be expressed by two words: Turkey shank.
Here we are at the entrance to the Renaissance Fairgrounds, being
heckled by what I can only assume is a fairy, a jester and a very
confused homeless man.
It is Peter Robinson's tradition to buy at least one ice-cream
sandwich to eat at the Renaissance Fair from the dirty old cart
vendor. Here he is, standing in front of Ye Olde Dragon Climbing
Tower looking nobly into the distance ...
Here are Peter and Amanda, enjoying Peter's ice cream sandwich
together. As we all know, usually this kind of encroaching on food
would get a man killed in Peter's presence, but Amanda has just
suffered through the horrors of Ye Olde Privy. For those less savvy
of you, thaaaat's a port-o-potty.
DAMMIT! If I had known I could get a totally awesome Gandalf style
walking stick no WAY would I have thrown down for those collapsible
lightweight walking sticks from REI!!
At the Renaissance Fair, a magical alternate universe, they WANT you
to touch them.
Yes, people, didgeridoos. At the Ren Fair. We know.
"Please touch."
"OK, but maybe not you. You're sketchy."
This picture needs no justification. I love you, Satan.
Notice that as the day wears on the awesomeness of our pictures
increases exponentially.
Amanda and I got on the swing together! My new husband insisted that
he couldn't join us because "simple harmonic rides make me vomit."
Then he took another sip of his cider from his stein, which by this
point had turkey gristle floating in it.
You may not be able to extrapolate it from this photo, but in about .
5 seconds, Amanda Schuldt is going to kick this man pushing our swing
directly in the balls. As Amanda puts, "there was full, up-tunic
contact, with a distinct squishing sensation". Best 3 dollars I ever
spent.
Peter Robinson: Your New Wife.
Your New, Graceful and Tactful Wife.
The one with the lazy eye.
PEOPLE. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND. THIS IS A WEDDING PROCESSIONAL.
THE GIRL IN WHITE JUST GOT MARRIED. LIKE, FOR REALS. AT THE
RENAISSANCE FAIR. I'm sorry for my urgent tone. It's just that this
is the fate I narrowly escaped.
Not all wedding processionals are attended by Johnny Depp and his pet
elephant!
This is my photojournalistic side coming out. I want you all to
really look at what this woman is eating. I mean reaaaally look.
(It helps if you know that in the background the bar wenches are
singing "I married a man with no balls.")
I have no words. OTHER THAN HUZZAH!!!
Once again, the photojournalist within. This image has SOOOOO much
going for it. We have the dude in the awesome Green Lantern t-shirt,
who obviously thought he was going to ComiCon and is saddened and
confused by the fixation of this place on swords and fairies. You
have the 3 year old being smothered by an inappropriately large
pirate hat. And you have the man I assume to be the proud father,
wearing a full-on hiker's pack but failing to see the utility of a
shirt.
I do not know what kind of "history lessons" this gentleman is
pimping but I feel confident they end with tears and a moist towelette.
Ima and her husband of 12 years, married at the Renaissance Fair a
week from today, with the giddy couple.
Amanda, looking happier and happier every time we see her with that
beer stein, also with the creepy clown couple.
The road not taken ... the Ren Fair wedding chapel.
"Yay!! We DIDN'T get married HERE!"
OK, guys. I was a little upset about the ice cream sandwiches and
the didgeridoos, but SERIOUSLY, the llama is PUSHING IT.
Mugs! Made out of the finest leather and plywood money can buy!!
OK, SERIOUSLY??? The llama, and now there are TWO COMPETING
didgeridoo vendors at the REN FAIR?? Goddammit.
Seriously, happier and happier ...
Now THIS is why I come to the Ren Fair!!
Ladies and gentlemen, my husband. A very special, special man.
Let's analyze: Root Beer Float stand, "I'm voting for Pedro" t-
shirt, ice cream sundae with whipped cream and chocolate toppings.
There is NOTHING in this picture that is even remotely connected to
the Renaissance, but that's okay because Peter Robinson has a look of
joy on his face that can only be expressed by a boyman with special
treat.
There are times at the fair when you capture a scene so inherently
geektastic that it imprints on you eternally. This scene of the
pasty white boy with the long hair and no business walking around
without a shirt on but STILL WITH A GIRL is one of them. Miracles
can happen, boys.
The joust!!!! OK, so I know this picture is awesome, but there are
some elements that made this scene even more awesome on an aural
level. There was a man on a side-stage with a mini carillon (for
those of you who aren't familiar, that is the instrument made out of
bells that people play in old-school bell towers) and a synthesizer.
He played the opening to Carmina Burana. ON A CARILLON. EPIC.
I challenge you!!
Oh SNAP! He's dismounted and that dude is jousting him in the FACE!
Continued chaos and hilarity.
Boo yeah.
SWORDFIGHT!!