Killed in Iraq, dog team buried together

By Michelle Tan - Staff writer

Posted : Tuesday Jul 24, 2007 6:38:59 EDT

The first military working dog team killed in action together since the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were laid to rest together July 18.

Cpl. Kory D. Wiens, 20, of the 94th Mine Dog Detachment, 5th Engineer Battalion, 1st Engineer Brigade of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and his partner, Cooper, were killed July 6 by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Muhammad Sath, Iraq. They had been in Iraq since January.

The cremated remains of Wiens and Cooper, a Labrador retriever, were buried together at Salt Creek Cemetery in Wiens’ hometown of Dallas, Ore., at the request of his family, said Master Sgt. Matt McHugh, the family’s casualty assistance officer.

“Kory referred to Cooper as his son, that’s now much of a team they were,” McHugh said.

McHugh added that based on his own research, the last military canine team to be killed together was during the Vietnam War.

The Army has 578 dog teams, and they have served several hundred rotations in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Hans Freimarck, the military working dog coordinator for the Army Dog Program.

Freimarck said he didn’t know the last time a canine team was killed together, but Wiens and Cooper were the first for operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

“Most military dog handlers look at [their relationship with their dog] as a marriage,” Freimarck said. “You give to the dog, the dog gives back to you. Every dog handler has a firm attachment to his dog and any dog in the military.”

Wiens and Cooper made up a specialized search detachment trained to find firearms, ammunition and explosives. Being on a specialized search team means more training, and Cooper, who was no more than 4 years old, did his job without a leash.

Cooper was Wiens’ first military working dog, and Wiens was Cooper’s first handler, McHugh said.

Wiens’ family is doing as well as can be expected, and their small community has been very supportive, McHugh said.

Residents of Dallas lined the streets to honor the funeral procession, which was accompanied by local law enforcement vehicles and the Patriot Guard Riders, a national organization of motorcycle enthusiasts who pay tribute to fallen service members.

Thirty-seven dog teams from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and area police departments attended the service, McHugh said.

Wiens was named after his grandfather, who was a military canine handler during the Korean War. He is survived by his parents, Kevin and Judith, three siblings and his extended family. Wiens’ older brother Kevin is serving his second tour in Iraq as a military police officer.

Memorial donations

The Oregon National Guard has reported to the state attorney general’s office questions related to the death of Cpl. Kory Wiens and his canine partner, Cooper.

At least two businesses in Dallas, Ore., the soldier’s hometown of about 12,500 people, were approached for donations to give Cooper a proper burial, said Guard spokesman Capt. Mike Braibish.

The businesses called the family’s casualty assistance officer to make sure the solicitation was legitimate, and the CAO called the Guard because he knew the Wiens family had set up only one memorial fund and that burial arrangements had already been made for Cooper, Braibish said. “We don’t know for sure that it is [a scam],” he said. “If it is indeed a scam I hope we put an end to this.”

The charitable organizations section of the attorney general’s office is investigating the incident, Braibish said.

There is protocol in place to ensure the remains of military working dogs are taken care of properly, said Hans Freimarck, military working dog coordinator for the Army Dog Program.

“I’m sure they take into consideration what the handler’s requests would be because they know the attachment that’s there,” he said.

The Kory Wiens Memorial Fund, set up by the Wiens family, is accepting donations at Washington Federal Savings Bank. The money will be used to customize Wiens’ 1972 Dodge “Swinger” and the vehicle will be used as a memorial to Wiens and Cooper.

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I was last here on a cold and grey day at the beginning or March.

Graveney stretches along the road, but All Saints sits on a quiet bend, and felt wonderfully isolated.

And not at all friendly, I have to say. It was locked, as expected, so I took aome outside shots and we moved on eatwards, but somehow I really wanted to see inside here, just to see if it could be warmer than it felt on that March morning.

I parked beside the road, I saw the door of the porch open, and a light filled space beyond.

Looked good....

The church was a hive of activity, with some people getting a table-top sale ready, others boiling the kettle and unpacking cakes for refreshments, whilst two others greeted me, and I was given my own tour.

Nooks and crannies everywhere, including an alcove in the north chapel, which must have held a figure, now as an artwork of the cross made my medieval nails found during restoration work.

Two panels of the original rood screen were still inside, though hidden away, and one had rings of concentric circles, to confuse the devil, I was told.

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The Victorians did not leave too much of a mark here, for the mellow red tiles, box pews and ledger slabs remain. There is a heavy medieval rood screen and the empty north and south aisles allow us to appreciate the building as it might originally have appeared. In the north aisle is a memorial brass to John Martyn (d. 1436) with cathedral-like proportions, being over 56 in long.

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GRAVENEY

LIES the next parish north-westward from Hernehill. It was called in the time of the Saxons, Graven-ea, and afterwards, by corruption of language, Gravenel, in like manner as Oxney, Pevensey, and Rumency, were corruptly called Oxenel, Pevensel, and Rumenel; (fn. 1) the name of it denoting its low and watery situation, and it is now, by contraction, usually called Grainey.

IT LIES about two miles from the high London road, on the north side of it, at the 48th mile-stone, the parish of Goodnestone intervening, in a low country adjoining the marshes, of which there is a large quantity, both fresh and salt within it, Faversham creek and the Swale being the western and northern boundaries of it. The soil of it various, there being in the level part some rich tillage land, and on the rises or small hills in it, a light soil of both sand and gravel. The church stands in the eastern part of the parish, having Graveneycourt, with an antient gateway, and numerous offices, singularly built round it, well worth observation, as denoting its former respectable state. In the western part is Nagdon, adjoining to Faversham creck, having a decoy for wild fowl, and a large quantity of marsh land belonging to it. There is but little thoroughfare here, and no village, the houses being interspersed straggling throughout it. Upon the whole though unhealthy, it has not an unpleasant aspect, being well cloathed with trees, especially elm, which are very thriving here, and in great plenty; the roads are remarkably well taken care of, as are the poor, and the whole parish seems to thrive well under the care of the inhabitants of Graveney-court. There are some parts of this parish separated from the rest by those of Faversham and Goodneston intervening.

There are several scarce plants observed by Mr. Jacob in this parish, and enumerated in this Plantæ Favershamienses.

THE ARCHBISHOP'S paramount manor of Boughton claims over the whole of this parish, as being within that hundred, subordinate to which is the manor of Graveney.

In the year 811, Wlfred, archbishop of Canterbury, purchased this place of Cenulph, king of Mercia, who had made the kingdom of Kent tributary to him, for the use of Christ-church, Canterbury, as appears by the leiger book of that priory, and that it was given L. S. A. that is, Libere Sicut Adisham, with the same liberties, immunities, and privileges that Adisham was. Soon after which, one Werhard, a powerful priest, and kinsman to the archbishop, found means to gain possession of it, and kept it till that prelate's death in 830, when Feogild succeeding to the see of Canterbury, though he sat in it but three months, yet in that time he compelled Werhard to restore Gravene then computed at thirty-two hides of land, to the church; and it was afterwards confirmed to it in anno 941, by king Edmund, Eadred his brother, and Edwyn son of the latter; (fn. 2) and it remained part of the revenues of Christchurch at the coming of archbishop Lanfranc to that see in 1070, when on his division of them, between himself and the monks of his church, this manor fell to his share, of whom it was afterwards held by knight's service. In which state it continued at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, anno 1080, in which it is thus entered, under the general title of Terra Militum Archiepi, that is, land held of the archbishop by knight's service.

In Boltune hundred the same Richard (who owed fealty to the archbishop) held of the archbishop Gravenel. It was taxed for one suling. The arable land is. In demesne there is one carucate, and eight villeins, with ten borderers having two carucates. There are five servants, and ten acres of meadow, and four saltpits of four shillings. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth one hundred shillings, now six pounds, of these the monks of Canterbury have twenty shillings.

Who this Richard was I do not find, though Somner calls him Ricardus Constabularius; however, it is not improbable, but he might afterwards adopt the surname of Gravene, from his having the possession of this place; certain it is, that it was afterwards held by a family who took their name from it. William de Gravene held it in the reign of king Henry III. of the archbishop, as one knight's fee. John de Gravene died possessed of it in the 56th year of the same reign, after which it became the property of the family of Feversham.

Thomas de Feversham died possessed of it in the beginning of the reign of king Edward III. leaving Joane his wife surviving, and in the window of the north chancel were formerly the arms of Feversham, A fess chequy, or, and gules, between six crosses, bottony, or; and underneath, Thomas Feversham, susticiar, & Johanna Uxor. ejus; on the pavement is a stone with two half-figures in brass for them, with an inscription round it in old French, part of which is gone; probably that which Weever mentions. (fn. 3) She afterwards entitled her second husband Sir Roger de Northwood to this manor, during her life; accordingly he paid aid for it in the 20th year of that reign, as one knight's see, which he held in right of his wife, of the archbishop, which was formerly held by Richard de Gravene. After her death her son Richard de Feversham succeeded to this manor, of which he died possessed in 1381, and was buried in this church, having married the daughter of Robert Dodde. His tomb, of Bethersden marble, remains against the south wall. In the south chancel, on the top, were two figures, and four coats of arms, the brasses gone; round the edge is this inscription, in brass, Ora pro aibs Roberti Dodde & Rici de Feuersham filii sui quonda dni de Gravene obiit, &c. Above the tomb, is a recess in the wall, with an antient carved arch above it. He had a daughter Joane, who became his heir, and married John Botiller, esq. and in her right became entitled to this manor, she died in 1408, and was buried in the south chancel here, her figure in brass on her gravestone is gone, but the inscription still remains. By her he had a son of his own name. Either he or his father was sheriff anno 22 king Richard II. John Botiller, esq the son, was knight of the shire in the 1st year of king Henry V.'s reign. They bore for their arms, Sable, three covered cups, or, within a bordure, argent; and John Botiller, probably the father, was esquire to archbishop Courtney, and mentioned in his will, proved anno 1396, being the 20th of Richard II.

There is a gravestone in the south chancel here, which most probably was for John Botiller the son; on it was his figure in brass, now gone, and four coats of arms; the two first are gone, the third Botiller, the fourth Feversham, a fess chequy, between six crosses, bottony, or. The inscription was remaining in Weever's time. This stone, I am informed, was some years ago removed out of the north chancel hither, and in the window of this chancel is this coat of arms, quarterly, first, Botiller, as above; second and third, a fess chequy, or, and gules, in chief three crosses, bottony, or; the bottom part being broken, the fourth is likewise broken. Underneath are these words remaining, Johes er, & Jonna ux ejs. Joane his wife was daughter and heir of William de Frogenhall, by whom he had a daughter and sole heir Anne, who carried it in marriage to John Martyn, judge of the common pleas, the son of Richard Martyn, of Stonebridge, who built much at his seat of Graveney court, where he partly resided. (fn. 4) He died in 1436, leaving his widow surviving, who then became again possessed of this manor in her own right. She afterwards married Thomas Burgeys, esq. whom she likewise survived, and dying in 1458 was buried beside her first husband in the north chancel of this church. His gravestone is of a very large size, and is most richly inlaid with brass, which is well preserved, having the figures of him and his wife, and other ornaments over the whole of it. There were four coats of arms, only the second of which, that of Boteler, is remaining. He bore for his arms, Argent, on a chevron, gules, three talbot bounds, passant, or. Her second husband Thomas Burgeys died in 1452, and was buried in the same chancel, where his gravestone remained till within these few years. At the upper end of the stone are two coats in brass, first Boteler impaling Frogenhall; second, a fess chequy impaling the like. Another coat, at the bottom, is gone, as is his figure.

In the descendants of Judge Martyn, residents at Graveney-court, this manor continued down to Robert Martyn, who likewise resided here, and died in the first year of Edward VI. (fn. 5) leaving his two daughters, Joane, married to Richard Argall, and Elizabeth to Stephen Reames, of Faversham, his coheirs. From them this manor was passed away by sale to John Pordage, of Rodmersham, in whose name it continued till it was at length sold to Daniel Whyte, esq. of Vinters, in Boxley, whose descendant of the same name, about the beginning of king George II.'s reign, alienated it to Mr. Edward Blaxland, who afterwards resided here, and bore for his arms, on a fess, three falcous volant, jessed and belled. He died in 1739. This occasioned this manor to be separated in several divisions and again afterwards in further subdivisions, among his descendants, in which state it now remains; but those of the male line of the name of Blaxland, still continue to reside at it. From the beginning of the last century to the middle of it, the Napletons, a family of good account in these parts of the county, were lessees of Graveney-court, and resided at it; and from that time to the latter end of it, the Houghhams were occupiers of it, and resided here. Many of both families lie buried in this church, as do all the Blaxlands, since their coming to the possession of this estate.

NAGDEN, formerly spelt Negdon, is a noted estate in the north-west part of this parish, consisting mostly of marsh land, which was once part of the endowment of the abbey of Faversham, and continued amongst the revenues of it till its final dissolution in the 30th year of Henry VIII. at which time it was valued at eight pounds per annum.

This estate thus coming into the hands of the crown, was granted by the king next year to Sir Thomas Cheney, lord warden, to hold in capite, who alienated it, in the 36th year of that reign, to Robert Martyn, of Graveney-court, who died in the first year of king Edward VI. (fn. 6) leaving his two daughters his coheirs, Joane, married to Richard Argall, and Elizabeth to Stephen Reames, who jointly possessed this estate. After which both these moieties seem to have been conveyed to Ciriac Petit, of Colkins, in this neighbourhood, who died possessed of the entire see of it in 1591, and in his descendants it continued down to Mr. William Petit, who in 1709 conveyed it by sale to dame Sarah Barrett, of Lee, widow, who died in 1711, upon which this estate came to her only son by her first husband, Sir Francis Head, bart. who died possessed of it in 1716. (fn. 7) He left four sons, who became entitled to this estate on their father's death, as coheirs in gavelkind. On the death of the eldest Sir Richard Head, bart. in 1721, his share devolved to his three brothers. James Head, esq. died afterwards intestate in 1727, and unmarried, on which Sir Francis Head, bart. and John Head, D. D. became possessed of it in undivided moieties, and the latter that same year conveyed his moiety of it to the former, who in 1745 sold the entire fee of it to John Smith, esq. of Faversham, who has since conveyed it to his son, John Smith, junior, esq. of Ospringe, the present possessor of it. The estate of Nagden pays nine shillings per annum, on Lammas day, to the vicar of Graveney, in lieu of tithes.

Charities.

On a tablet in the church, the benefactions of several pieces of land are recorded, amounting in the whole to upwards of four acres. These are put up as benefactions to the church; but by the information of the clerk, they belonged to the poor, to whom the yearly produce of them was distributed till of late. It is now applied to the repairs of the church.

The poor constantly relieved are about ten, casually 25.

GRAVENEY is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Ospringe.

The church is dedicated to All Saints, and consists of three isles and a high chancel, and two side ones formerly called chapels, the south one being dedicated to St. John, and the north one to the Virgin Mary. The steeple, which is a tower, stands at the north-west corner. In it are three bells. The antient gravestones in this church have been removed from where they originally laid, to make room for the present ones. Thus that of John Martyn, as I am informed, has been removed out of the north into the south chancel. In this north chancel they have been likewise still further displaced; there are now two rows of gravestones in it, lying three and three. In the west row are now, the first southward, Judge Martyn's; the second, Mr. Edward Blaxland's, who died in 1739; and the third, Thomas Burgeys, esq. For the making room for Mr. E. Blaxland's, Judge Martyn's stone was removed from the middle or second place to the first, where before his son's lay, till removed to the south chancel. This practice, of disturbing the ashes of the dead, as is but too frequent in churches of late, calls loudly for some authority to prevent it in future.

The church of Graveney, with the advowson of the vicarage, was in very early times part of the possessions of the priory of St. Mary Overies, in Southwark, with which it continued till the final dissolution of it in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it came into the hands of the crown, together with all the revenues and estates belonging to it.

The parsonage remained in the crown some years longer than the advowson of the vicarage, as will be mentioned hereafter, that is, till the 3d year of queen Elizabeth, when the queen granted this rectory, being then valued at 7l. 6s. 8d. yearly rent, to archbishop Parker and his successors, in exchange for other premises. (fn. 8) Since which it has continued part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury to this time.

This parsonage has been from time to time demised on a beneficial lease, at the above yearly rent. In 1643 Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, widow, was tenant of it. John Baker, esq. of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, is the present lessee of it.

But the advowson of the vicarage did not continue so long in the crown, for it was granted, among others, in 1558, to the archbishop and his successors, (fn. 9) with whom it now continues, his grace the archbishop being now patron of it.

This vicarage is valued in the king's books at fifty pounds, and the yearly tenths at 1l. 4s. per annum. In 1578 there were communicants here ninety. In 1640 the communicants were sixty-five, and it was valued at sixty pounds per annum.

In the year 1244 archbishop Boniface, on the presentation of the prior and convent of St. Mary Overies, as appears by an antient book belonging to it, instituted Ralph, the curate of Gravene, to the perpetual vicarage of this parish, so that he should receive and take in the name of it, all fruits and oblations, with all other things belonging to the church, excepting two sheaves of the tithe, and should take the same to his own use.

In the same manuscript, on a dispute between the prior and convent, rectors of this church, and Richard, lord of Gravenel, concerning tithes in this parish, it was decreed in 1283, before the rural dean of Ofpringe, that the vicar should receive, in the name of the religious, as well as in his own right, all tithes arising in future from the feedings and pastures in his own marshes, called North-marsh and Leved-marsh, which should be paid to him without any cavil or exception. (fn. 10)

The vicar has a house and two acres of glebe land.

¶The vicarage is worth about fifty pounds per annum. He is entitled, by the above composition, to all tithes, excepting the two sheaves mentioned in it, and by prescription likewise; which third part of the corn tithes is now usually known by the name of the vicar's third sheaf. But the impropriator's lease being for all the tithes of the parish, without any such exception, has occasioned many quarrels and disputes about this third sheaf, which are now entirely subsided, and the vicar is accustomed to take one shock out of every thirty shocks of corn, in right of his vicarage.

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Arriving at Coventry Station, slightly later than expected, due to a signal fault near Berkswell, but it was well worth getting here!

The station is owned and managed by Virgin Trains, hence all the red!

Surprisingly Coventry Station is a Grade II listed building!

Coventry Station, Including Attached Platform Structures, Coventry

SP 37 NW COVENTRY STATION SQUARE

17/10018 Coventry Station, including

attached platform structures

II

Main line station 1962. Architect W R Headley, Regional Architect LMR; Project Architect Derrick Shorten. Booking hall has reinforced concrete frame; station platforms are steel framed. Anodised aluminium windows and doors with blue engineering brick panels at low level. The station comprises a two storey height booking hall linked across an adjoining platform by an overbridge to island platform and a single sided platform. All platforms have long steel framed canopies with deep fascias protecting single storey platform buildings. The wide overbridge houses staircases and lifts which serve the platform. The booking office is glazed on three sides. The roof of the hall cantilevers out from the building and links to the overbridge roof with a continuous fascia. Station signs are integrated into panels at door head height. The concrete columns of the booking hall and overbridge are finished with vertical glazed tiling in white, as is the wall above the enclosed ticket office. The ceiling to the booking hall and the undersides of all platform canopies are finished in varnished hardwood strip boarding. A small courtyard adjoins the catering facilities and the principal waiting room. A single storey high canopy around the booking hall provides protection to set down and pick up points for buses, cars and taxis. Outstanding architecturally, particularly for its spatial qualities and detailing.

Listing NGR: SP3318078192

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

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More in here than I expected to see. Back in 83 as a spotty teen I used to regularly visit the George next door, we used to go there to play pool and have a pint (if you had the money the landlord had the beer) we would all ride out there on our crappy little 50cc mopeds. Mine was a little gem, it was an orange Mobylette reg SRT 87M, that little French baby used to go like a rocket it was pedal start and had no rear suspension, the springs were in the saddle. The only problem it had was being air cooled (French Technology) it would get hot and slow down about 3 miles before the pub, this was always expected, so as I felt that holding back feel I would pip my tiny little pathetic horn and my pals would pull over, then we would proceed to piddle on the cylinder head, that great burst of aromatic steam was not the best but it worked like a charm!! Its the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth!

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We stumbled upon All Saints en route to a different church, and as all those seen thus far on this day had been small and plain, not much was expected. But I saw the tower from along the main street, and looked impressive. and once parked we found it unlocked and welcoming.

Star of the show is the northern chapel, given over to the Culpepper family, with a fabulous tomb in the centre. On the walls, dozens of blank shields show what had been planned to be the family mausoleum for centuries, but things changed, the family moved away and the chapel has just three shields decorated.

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There was considerable damage caused to this church in an earthquake of 1382. The medieval accounts survive so we know that 48s 2d was spent on the rebuilding. Little can have changed to the structure since that time, except for the construction of a north chapel in 1638. This chapel has a charming pattern of flint flushwork triangles in a horizontal course below the battlements. It contains one of the most interesting seventeenth-century monuments in Kent - to commemorate Lady Elizabeth Culpepper (d. 1638), carved and signed by the Court Sculptor Edward Marshall. The detail is amazing and the cord that connects her ring and wrist is always pointed out to visitors. The rest of the church was restored early in the career of George Gilbert Scott Jr in 1876 (see also Frinsted) and retains its patina of age unimaginable in a restoration by Scott Sr. The pulpit is early seventeenth century and dates from a few years after the much crocketed font cover. There are three signed monuments by Rysbrack and a tall crownpost roof of good construction in the nave.

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HOLLINGBORNE.

THE next parish north-westward from Harrietsham is Hollingborne, called in Domesday, Hoilingeborde, and in later records, Holingburnan and Holingeburne. It probably took its name from the spring which rises in the vale underneath the hill, in this parish.

THE PARISH of Hollingborne is situated much the same as that of Harrietsham last described, close to the great ridge of chalk hills, at the foot of which is the village called Hollingborne-street, in which at the south end of it stands the church and vicarage, and near them a well-looking brick mansion, of the time of queen Elizabeth, which by its appearance must have had owners of good condition in former times, but what is remarkable the rector of Hollingborne claims some rooms in this house in right of his rectory at this time. The road through Newnhambottom from Ospringe and Canterbury passes through Hollingborne-street, and thence through Eyhorne, commonly called Iron-street, in this parish, where there are two good houses, one belonging to Robert Salmon, esq. who resides in it, and the other built not many years since by Mr. John Weeks, who died possessed of it in 1785. Hence the road leads on, and joins the Ashford high road through Bersted to Maidstone. The southern part of this parish consists mostly of a deep sand, the whole of it below the hill is well watered by some small streams, which running southward join the Lenham rivulet in its way to Maidstone. Nearer the street the soil becomes a chalk, which continues to the summit of the hill, at the edge of which stands Mr. Duppa's house, whence the remaining part of this parish northward, situated on high ground, and exposed to the cold bleak winds, is but a wild and dreary country, with thick hedgerows, and frequent coppices of wood, mostly of hazel and oak, and small unthriving trees of the latter dispersed among them; the soil a deep tillage land, wet and very poor, being a red cludgy earth, covered with quantities of flint stones. On Eyhorne green, or as it is commonly called Broad-street, in this parish, in October yearly, two constables are chosen, one for the upper, the other for the lower half hundred of Eyhorne, each of which district consists of the twelve adjoining parishes, the borsholders in which, and the several boroughs in them, except such as are chosen at the different court leets, are chosen here likewise.

This parish, with the manor of Elnothington in it, together with the rest of the hundred of Eyhorne, was antiently bound to contribute to the repair of the sixth pier of Rochester bridge.

ÆTHELSTAN ETHELING, son of Ethelred II. gave by his will in 1015, to Christ-church, in Canterbury, his lands at Hollingborne, with their appurtenances, excepting one plough-land, which he had given to Siserth. In the MSS. in Bennet college library, Cambridge, of the evidences of Christ-church, Canterbury, intitled Thorn, printed in Decim. Script. f. 2221, this gift is said to have been made in 980; a very improbable circumstance, the king, his elder brother, at that time being but fourteen years of age.

These lands he had bought of his father, and gave them, with his consent, to Christ-church, L. S. A. that is, free from all secular service, excepting the trinoda necessitas, in like manner as Adisham had been given to it.

The manor of Hollingborne remained part of the possessions of the church of Canterbury at the time of the conquest, when the revenues of it were enjoyed as one common estate by the archbishop and his convent; but archbishop Lanfranc, after the example of foreign churches, separating them, in the partition Hollingborne fell to the share of the monks, and was allotted for their subsistence, (or ad Cibum, as it was usually termed) and it is accordingly thus entered in the book of Domesday, under the general title of Terra Monachorum Archiepi, i. e. the land of the monks of the archbishop.

The archbishop himself holds Hoilingeborde. It was taxed at six sulings. The arable land is twenty-four carucates. In demesne there are two, and sixty-one villeins, with sixteen borderers, having twenty-three carucates. There is a church, twelve servants, and two mills, and eight acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of forty hogs. In the whole, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth twenty pounds, and now it is worth thirty pounds. To this manor there adjoins half a suling, which never paid scot, this the bishop of Baieux rents of the archbishop.

At this time, the whole of the above premises seems to have been valued at thirty pounds.

King Henry II. granted to the monks of Christchurch a charter for their lands at Hollingborne upon the Hills. In the 10th year of king Edward II. the prior obtained a charter of free-warren for his manor of Hollingborne, among others; about which time it was, with its appurtenances, valued at 46l. 9s. 8d. King Henry VI. by his letters patent, in his 25th and 26th year, granted to the prior a market, to be held at this place weekly on a Wednesday, and a fair yearly on the feast of St. Anne. (fn. 1)

William Selling, who was elected prior in the next reign of king Edward IV. anno 1472, during the time of his holding that dignity, greatly improved the prior's apartments here. After which, it seems to have undergone no material alteration till the dissolution of the priory, which was surrendered into the hands of king Henry VIII. in the 31st year of his reign.

The manor of Hollingborne did not remain long in the hands of the crown; for the king settled it, by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, on his newerected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it now remains.

There is a court-leet and court baron regularly held by the dean and chapter for this manor, which extends likewise into the adjoining parishes of Hucking, Bredhurst, and Harrietsham, the quit-rents of it called Beadle-rents, being about forty-two pounds per annum.

¶BUT THE DEMESNE LANDS of this manor have been from time to time leased out by the dean and chapter at a reserved rent of 10l. 9s. The year after the grant of it to them, they demised them by lease to I. Reynolde, as they did anno 19 Elizabeth to William Puresoy, in whose family they remained till the beginning of king James I.'s reign. After which the Fludds held them in lease, and continued so to do, till their interest in them was passed away to W. Alabaster, D. D. After which these premises were held in succession by Bargrave, Boys, Farewell, and Gookin, till the year 1684, when Sir Thomas Culpeper, had a lease of them, in whose family they continued till John Spencer Colepeper, of the Charterhouse, passed away his interest in them to the Hon. Robert Fairfax, who held them in 1758, and then alienated his lease to Francis Child, esq. banker in London, whose brother Robert Child, esq. of London, banker, dying in 1782, the trustees of his will, Robert Dent and John Keysel, esqrs. are now in the possession of his interest in the lease of these demesnes, under the dean and chapter, besides which the dean and chapter have several other lands and woods here leased out by them to different persons.

HOLLINGBORNE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deaury of Sutton; and is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon.

The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a handsome building, consisting of three large isles, with a chancel at the end of the middle one, and a square tower at the west end. The chancel is much enriched with the monuments of the family of Culpeper, of Greenway-court, and for two of the lords Culpeper, one of them by Rysbrack; on the north side is one for Sir Martin Barnham and his two wives, in 1610, their three figures kneeling at a desk, and underneath their children. At the east end of the north isle there is a small neat chapel, raised up several steps to give room for a vault underneath, in which lie the remains of all this branch of the Culpeper family. The sides of the chapel are filled with black escutcheons, and square tablets of black marble alternately, only two of these among the numbers of them are filled up, and those with younger branches of the family settled elsewhere, a proof of the disappointment of the vain endeavours of the builder to transmit the memory of his descendants to posterity. On the middle of the pavement is a beautiful raised monument of white marble, and the figure of a lady, lying at full length, in the habit of the times, of exceeding good sculpture, in memory of Elizabeth, lady of Sir Thomas Culpeper, daughter of John Cheney, esq. of Sussex, obt. 1638. In the isle a monument for Nich. Chaloner, esq. obt. 1706. Against the north wall of the north isle for two of the family of Duppa, and at the lower end of the church, for the Plummers, Collins's and Dykes. In the middle isle a stone, on which have been the figures of a man and woman in brass, but two shields of arms remain, being quarterly, first and fourth, A chevron, engrailed on a chief, three sleurs de lis; second and third, Three fishes, wavy, sessways, in pale.

There is belonging to this church, a most superb altar-cloth, and a pulpit-cloth and cushion, of purple velvet, ornamented with different figures of fruits of pomegranets and grapes, wrought in gold, the needlework of the daughters of Sir John Colepeper, afterwards created lord Colepeper, who employed themselves for almost the space of twelve years in the working of them, during their father's absence abroad with king Charles II.

The communion plate is very handsome, and an swerable to the above-mentioned furniture, being mostly the gift of the family of Colepeper, and some of it of Baldwin Duppa, esq.

John Eweyn, by his will proved in 1527, gave a table of alabaster, to stand upon the altar of St. John the Baptist in this church; and money to the repair of St. John's chapel in it. John Aleff, parson of Hollingborne, as appears by his will in 1537, was buried in the way beside the porch-door, on the right hand, and that there was set in the wall, nigh his grave, a stone with a plate of sculpture, mentioning where and when he was buried. He had before been vicar of Little Chart, and of St. Laurence Wolton, as he was then of St. John's Sherburne, in Hampshire.

The church of Hollingborne, to which the chapels of Hucking and Bredhurst were antiently annexed, is a sinecure rectory, with a vicarage endowed. The rector of Hollingborne is at this time patron of the perpetual curacy of the chapel of Bredhurst. The archbishop is patron both of the rectory and of the vicarage of Hollingborne, the vicar of which is collated to this vicarage, with the chapel of Hucking annexed.

The vicarage was endowed before the year 1407, in which year Arthur Sentleger, the rector, granted to William Maunby, vicar of this church, a messuage, with its appurtenances in this parish, for the habitation of himself and his successors for ever. (fn. 5) In archbishop Chichele's register, at Lambeth, there is an unauthenticated writing of a composition, made about the year 1441, for it is without date, between William Lyeff, then rector here, and John Fsylde, vicar, upon the assignation of a proper portion for the endowment of this vicarage in future times.

The rectory of Hollingborne is valued in the king's books at 28l. 15s. 5d. and the tenths at 2l. 17s. 6 1/7d. The vicarage is valued in them at 7l. 6s. 8d. and the yearly tenths at 14s. 8d. The vicarage in 1640 was valued at eighty-six pounds, and the communicants were then 271. It is now of the yearly certified value of 70l. 16s. 8d.

The vicarage was augmented twenty pounds per annum, by lease between Ralph Staunton, rector, and Sir Thomas Culpeper, of this parish.

¶The name of Culpeper, or Colepeper, is so variously spelt in different deeds and records, that it is impossible to keep with any rule to either spelling; on all the monuments, and in the parish register, (excepting in two instances in the last) it is spelt Culpeper.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol5/pp460-478

11/14/2016 photo by Brian Schroyer

Construction begins on the new 6-mile off-road vehicle trail at Savage River State Forest. It is expected to open mid-2017.

Expecting and nursing mothers require social protection but workers in the informal economy are often not covered. Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Workplace support for mothers who are breastfeeding has been a basic provision of maternity protection. The Philippines expanded maternity leave benefits in 2019 to align with international labour standards. The ILO also promoted exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for Filipino children.

Photo : E. Tuyay / ILO

Date : 2011/11

Country : Philippines

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THE TRUTH ABOUT EURO-ARMY THREAT TO NATO

Commentary by Trevor Kavanagh Sun Political Editor. December 6, 2000

We expect double-crossing Robin Cook to tell porkies.

It's the only way he can hang onto his job as Foreign Secretary.

And we'd be disappointed if his deputy Keith Vaz - the slippery Vaz - did not set out deliberately to mislead us each time he opened his mouth.

After all, he opposed the infamous Maastricht Treaty - and called for a referendum so that Britain could dump it.But we tend to believe Tony Blair, who says he is an "honest kind of guy", when he promises there are no plans for a European army.

Indeed, in a recent poll, half the nation backed plans for a 60,000 strong EU Rapid Reaction Force under orders from Brussels - so long as it did not undermine NATO.

There were no plans for a standing army, Mr Blair told us.

Now we have the truth - from EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels.

They want to leave Britain out of a fast-track operation which would give Europe its own defence force - separate from NATO.

The move, which caught Robin Cook with his pants down, sparked instant consternation in the White House.American defence secretary William Cohen warned it could be the end of NATO, the cornerstone of European defence for 50 years.

"Too many questions remain unanswered," he told NATO defence ministers in Brussels yesterday. NATO could become a relic of the past. That's not something that the US desires."

But he warned the 19 NATO member states to keep an eye open for the "warning flags."

He added: "If we have a competing institution that would be inconsistent with military effectiveness, NATO could be weakened."

As the Sun warned when the row exploded last month, America is deeply suspicious of French moves to drive a wedge between Brussels and Washington.

US defence chiefs have accused French officers of leaking secret bombing plans to Milosevic regime during the battle to save Kosovo.

They believe it was a tip-off from a French informer that led to the spectacular downing of a Stealth bomber over Belgrade.

And they vow they will severe exchanges of vital intelligence with Britain if there is any chance of it falling into French hands.Mr Blair and the faithful Mr Cook denied all this.

They insisted there was no plan to build a rival to NATO, despite German admissions that the new Rapid Reaction Force would be able to strike deep into hostile territory up to 2,500 miles from Brussels.

Now we know the truth. France, Germany and Italy have pulled a flanker on Britain under which countries who have signed up to the euro would be able to set up their own military operations.

At an explosive meeting in Brussels last Sunday, Mr Cook vowed to block any move in a new treaty at the EU summit in Nice, which starts tomorrow.

The bust-up is a bitter blow for ministers who believed one poll suggesting the public supported a European army.Last night a new ICM survey revealed the truth- 56 per cent oppose any move that puts British troops under orders from Brussels. Only 30 per cent increase.

Tory defence spokesman Iain Duncan Smith said: "Tony Blair cannot dupe the British public when national security is at stake."

expect a lot of selfies, I'm feeling self reflective/trying to grow out my hair

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Managed a quick hour at Carr Mill to try some flight shots. Jeff asked for some flight shots and some at F5.6 and f6.3. As I expected Jeff they are a bit soft, but the results were better than I expected. I never used the Sigma below f7.1!!!!! Unlike Canon lenses Sigma and Tamron need between f7.1 and f9 for sharp images which does restrict their use to very sunny days.

I went out to photograph the sunrise the morning. It was a lovely clear sky. I was not expecting the red dawn so this was a bonus. Shortly after taking a few photos the clouds came over and there was no sunrise.

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1800s Art Books Medicine Illustration Surgery Wellcome Trust

19th Century Illustrations for the Surgical Removal of Unwanted Parts of the Human Body

"I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time" - Henri Matisse

Many of the colour lithographs below were created for US surgeon Joseph Pancoast’s (November 23, 1805 – March 6, 1882) 1844 book A Treatise on Operative Surgery. The blurb tells us: “A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in is present advanced condition; with eighty plates containing four-hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations.” These images are for the book’s second edition of 1846, for which they were “enlarged”. Other images can be found in the 1848 work Précis iconographique de médecine opératoire et d’anatomie chirurgicale by Claude Bernard (1813-1878). They are captivating and unsettling.

Plate LXVII. Surgical technique for lithotomy (the removal of a bladder stone). Bilateral and vesico-rectal operation.

Plate LXVI. Surgical technique for lithotomy.

Plate XLIX. Surgery to correct strabismus, involving the division of the internal rectus of the right eye. Strabismus is the misalignment of the eyes.

Plate XLIX. Surgery to correct strabismus, involving the division of the internal rectus of the right eye. Strabismus is the misalignment of the eyes.

Plate XXXIV. Surgical instruments used for external urethrotomy in prostatectomy (removal of part of the prostate gland).

Plate XXXIV. Surgical instruments used for external urethrotomy in prostatectomy (removal of part of the prostate gland).

Removing the placenta and umbilical cord after birth

Removing the placenta and umbilical cord after birth. Abbildungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der theoretisch-praktischen Geburtshülfe, nebst beschreibender Erklärung derselben / Nach dem Französischen des Maygrier bearbeitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Eduard Casp. Jac. von Siebold – 1829

Plate XLVIII. Illustration of surgery on the eye for the removal of a cataract. Operation by extraction - inferior section of the cornea.

Plate XLVIII. Illustration of surgery on the eye for the removal of a cataract. Operation by extraction – inferior section of the cornea.

Plate LVI. Surgery for the removal of the mammary gland.

Plate LVI. Surgery for the removal of the mammary gland. 19th Century. Iconografia d’anatomia chirurgica e di medicina operatoria / [Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery]

Plate 42, Techniques for the removal of cataracts.

Plate 42, Techniques for the removal of cataracts.

Plate 70, Surgical techniques for lithotripsy (the removal of bladder and kidney stones).

Plate 70, Surgical techniques for lithotripsy (the removal of bladder and kidney stones). Précis iconographique de médecine opératoire et d’anatomie chirurgicale by Claude Bernard (1848).

Plate LXVII. Surgical technique for lithotomy (the removal of a bladder stone). Bilateral and vesico-rectal operation.

Plate LXVII. Surgical technique for lithotomy (the removal of a bladder stone). Bilateral and vesico-rectal operation.

Fig. 1. Removal with the forceps by torsion and traction. Fig. 2, 3. Removal by ligature. Fig. 4,5. Simple hare-lip. Fig. 6, 7, 8. 'Double hare-lip' and 'complicated hare-lip'.

Fig. 1. Removal with the forceps by torsion and traction. Fig. 2, 3. Removal by ligature. Fig. 4,5. Simple hare-lip. Fig. 6, 7, 8. ‘Double hare-lip’ and ‘complicated hare-lip’.

Plate 65, Surgical removal of tumours from the scrotum.

Plate 65, Surgical removal of tumours from the scrotum.

Plate 46, Illustration of the removal of nasal polyps and tonsillectomy.

Plate 46, Illustration of the removal of nasal polyps and tonsillectomy.

Plate 16. Various operative stages of the removal of a tumour from the uterus.

Plate 16. Various operative stages of the removal of a tumour from the uterus.

Tomo II, Tavola 19. Surgical instruments used on the tonsils and nasal cavity for the removal of polyps.

Tomo II, Tavola 19. Surgical instruments used on the tonsils and nasal cavity for the removal of polyps.

Tomo II, Tavola 57 bis. Procedure for the removal of stones from the prostate and urethra.

Tomo II, Tavola 57 bis. Procedure for the removal of stones from the prostate and urethra.

Removal of tumours of uterus

Removal of tumours of uterus

Hand painted wood engraving showing the necessary position for the patient for removal of bladder stones.

Hand painted wood engraving showing the necessary position for the patient for removal of bladder stones.

Surgery on the eye for the removal of a cataract.

Surgery on the eye for the removal of a cataract.

Plate XIX. Surgical removal of a stone from the bladder.

Plate XIX. Surgical removal of a stone from the bladder.

Plate 43, Illustration and anatomy of ear surgery.

Plate 43, Illustration and anatomy of ear surgery.

surgery cataracts

Removing cataracts

Plate 55, J. Pancoast, A treatise on operative surgery, 1846.

It took me a lot longer than I had expected to get these pictures up from last weekend, but it's been hard to find time between my job and volunteering. Taking pictures just has not been the most important thing for me at this point, but nevertheless I will continue squeezing the shutter whenever I can. Hopefully, we will all be able to see dramatic transformation of these areas back into their original beauty, but it is clearly a long road ahead.

If you live in the area and wish to help, please contact me and I will send you a list of volunteer centers throughout Miyagi as well as a list of important equipment to bring with you. If you do decide to volunteer, please go with an organized group and bring the necessary equipment. I don't mean to frighten anyone, but I was notified again today that there still are dangerous areas. Don't go alone, please.

Here is a video that I took of the area the same day I took these pictures:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CazswZd454o

The area that these pictures were taken, was utterly obliterated by the tsunami. After a few hours of hauling items back and forth between my friends' destroyed home, I started to get a headache and feel sick from the fumes. In my last post, I also mentioned that I had heard of people setting off explosions and starting fires from trying to light their cigarettes.

We worked amidst pure devastation for about 5 Hours, however we were only able to salvage a handful of their things. Sometimes it was hard to know what was theirs, since the tsunami had swept a whole city worth of belongings through the first floor of their home.

Surprisingly, the four-year-old house was in pretty good shape despite the fact that it was blown back off of its foundation about 200 feet and sat about 10-15 degrees off of level (in the video I said 60 feet, but I meant to say 60 meters. The distance and angle is still a total guess, but you can judge for yourself in the pictures/video). The structure of house was in such good condition, that we were able to walk up to the second floor and salvage most of the dry, smaller items. Their daughter was just given a brand new bed and desk-set as an elementary graduation present, but we unfortunately could not take it out.

The reason we needed to go and salvage what we could as quickly as possible was because the house, although it did not look like it, was sitting in the middle of a road. The city and self defense force had given them only a few more days to clear out before they would have to bulldoze it down.

I asked the family if they had tsunami insurance, but apparently there is no tsunami insurance. They will receive a small amount of money from the government, but it will not even come close to covering the damage they sustained.

The most dumbfounding part of that day for me was not surreal experience of walking through the total destruction of an entire town, but rather the laughing and smiling that came from a family who just lost everything- everything except each other. Items and worldly possessions are of little value against the people we hold dear. I tried to reciprocate the smiles, laughter, and healthy conversation (especially in light of the children), but it wasn't easy fighting off the grim emotions lurking below the surface.

This last weekend, I was able to volunteer for a short time in Downtown Ishinomaki and also take a few more pictures/video The downtown area seems to be getting a lot more attention, and about half of the roads seem traversable. Downtown also felt incredibly safe during the day time due to the dozens of police and military (both Japanese and US) walking the streets and distributing food and water at the camps. I will post those pictures later this week.

I know my website is in shambles right now (I just have not had time), but I'm hoping to have it looking nicer as soon as possible. I've never really sold anything from my website, but I'm going to donate all of the money I earn from ANY of the pictures I sell (not just the quake photos) to Red Cross Japan for at least the next year. Please take it into consideration. Here is my site:

www.carstenKnoche.com

In addition, I contributed many of my pictures to QUAKEBOOK.org, and if you have never heard this organization, PLEASE check them out as well. All of Quakebook's revenue will also go towards the Red Cross Japan.

www.quakebook.org/

Lastly, you can contribute directly to Red Cross Japan here:

www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html

Thank you very much for facing this tragedy with us. With cooperation, strength, and perseverance, we can accomplish anything.

Take care,

Carsten Knoche

Maternity couple holds ultrasound photo and kisses. Model released.

banabila.bandcamp.com/album/between-your-eyes-and-mine

VITAL WEEKLY 895:

Michel Banabila recorded a lovely 7" with Robin Rimbaud, also known as Scanner, since many years. It's not that I expected them to work together easily but then why not. Two pieces here, a total of eight minutes, of which the title piece has time stretched drone sounds on top of which a piano is placed which tinkles away in a rather non linear fashion, calm and relaxing, but very effective. 'Sleeping The Sleep Of Stones', which is actually the a-side of this record, has a voice, maybe picked up from a Lomax record, or maybe scanned from the airwaves surrounding the studio, with a musical setting of synth, guitar and sparse percussion. Both of these pieces work quite well as 'songs' - always my concern when it comes to a 7", but hey, I am old fashioned - and certainly long for more. Will this be the start of more music between these electronic lizzards - changing to whatever tone is needed? That would be awesome indeed. (FdW)

BLOGZINE DA CHILL COM CARNE :

Um single de vinil para um encontro entre dois cromos da música electrónica, ambos participantes no último volume do Antibothis.

São dois temas que poderiam ser considerados como "nocturnos da idade digital" por serem peças ligeirinhas e melancólicas que podem ouvir aqui se não acreditam no que escrevo.

Porque razão se quer editar isto em formato single já é mistério total mas que é bonitinho lá isso é.

NORMAN RECORDS :

A lovely little seven inch from two clever electronica chaps, Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner and Michel Banabila have collaborated to create this lush sound of call and response ambience. Side A is a happy little guitar and electronics piece, with the pluck and scrape of electric guitar passing on to the warm chords of synth and glitch. Side B is a morose little tune with a sad synth line and the tuning down of a bass guitar, completely opposite to side A but still rather interesting. (Ian)

FOURTH DIMENSION.NET :

Clear and shifting beds of shimmer and tone serve as a backdrop to melodic keys, grizzled voices and what sounds like guitar plucks and scrapes. Everything sits well together and even hints at a very pleasant album I’m sure the pair could produce. (RJ)

"All those places

Where I recall the memories

That gripped me

And pinned me down

I go to these places

Intending to think

To think of nothing

No anticipate

And somehow expect

You'll find me there

That by some miracle

You'd be aware

I'd risen this morning

Determined to break

The spell of my longing

And not to think

I freed myself from my family

I freed myself from work

I freed myself

I freed myself

And remained alone

And in my thinking

Steal you away

Though you never wanted me

Anyway

Silence

Silence

Silence

Silence"

"Silence"

by Polly Jean Harvey or

the Über singer PJ HARVEY

I don't know what I expected when I rolled into Stanford. Another interesting but halfway abandoned town, I suppose. Boy was I wrong. What I observed was easily one of the most beautiful and charming towns I have ever seen! Think "perfect, classic small town". This charming place is clean and bustling, with cute little storefronts and the town has a lovely color scheme of flowers in all planters and hanging baskets. Big kudos to the town of Stanford, they keep everything ship shape and so cute! Another big plus is it's located in the middle of sprawling, beautiful prairie yet surrounded on the skyline by mountains. This is probably one of the top 5 places in Montana I would love to live. Maybe some day :)

"Stanford is a county seat of Judith Basin. In 1880 Calvin and Edward Bower came here with a thousand head of sheep and acquired 100,000 acres. The Bowers named the settlement for their old home, Standfordville, in Duchess County, New York. Stanford was a station on the Fort Benton-Billings stage route and a meeting place for cowboys from the Judith Basin Pool and other cattle companies who stock grazed the rich Judith Basin before homesteaders and sheepmen arrived.

The Judith Basin County Museum was opened in 1967. The museum has many old time articles, old pictures and some history books. It also contains a collection of 2,082 sets of salt and pepper shakers; a collection of 50,000 buttons; an Indian artifacts display, and many more items. Charles M. Russell, a famous Western artist, lived and painted many of his paintings in the area. There is a display of some of his paintings at the museum.

For years stories of white wolves of prodigious strength and cunning grew and multiplied among folk living in the Judith. One particularly huge wolf known as Old Snowdrift became a legendary outlaw.(from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) Between Stanford and the Little Belt mountains, ranged the Judith Basin area's notorious White Wolf. There he reigned supreme for over fifteen years, preying on calves and eluding the cattlemen trying to track him down. As his fame grew, hunters from all over the United States came to try their luck at hunting the legendary White Wolf. When the White Wolf was finally captured, locals found that he was as large as had been reported, weighing 83 pounds and measuring, including the tail, six feet long.

Recreation opportunities abound in the nearby Lewis and Clark National Forest, Judith River Wildlife Management Area and Ackley Lake State Park. The Judith River Wildlife Management Area, at the edge of the Little Belt Mountains is a good place to view large elk herds in late fall and winter." -centralmontana.com

March 5, 2010

The site of the former Goshen Restaurant is expected to be torn down by the end of the month (March 2010). “It was purchased by the department in 2009,” Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal engineer Dwayne Cross wrote in an email. “It was required as part of the future intersection work necessary to extend Route 316 northerly to the new Highway 104.” The Goshen opened in 1948, when Jim and Warren Jones rebuilt a restaurant on the site of the former Dingle Dining Room, which they bought from Les Cunningham in 1947. The Dingle began as a roadside stand in the 1920s. It expanded to include cabins and a diner. By 1929, the Dingle sold cigars, “temperance drinks,” ice cream, gas and oil. Mary McCarron worked at the Dingle in the 1940s. Guests at the cabin had to register inside the diner because the cabins lacked electricity, McCarron said.“ The [owners] were so fussy, they’d ask for a marriage license before letting two people stay in the same cabin.” A fire destroyed the Dingle Dining Room the night of Dec. 20, 1947. McCarron ate supper at the Dingle that night. “Everything was fine when we were in there at 10:30 or 11, but the next morning we heard that it burnt down.” According to a Casket article from 1947, six people sleeping in the attached apartments lowered themselves from windows to escape the blaze. The Jones’ collie, Skippy, woke Jim Jones and his wife as the building filled with smoke. “They barely escaped with their lives,” local historian Frasier Dunn said. Sadie MacIntosh was one of the waitresses at the Dingle when it burned down. “Sadie MacIntosh went back to work for Jim Jones on May 22, 1948, and in her mother’s diary, it said ‘helping fix up the new Goshen,’” Dunn said. The Goshen restaurant opened soon after. The Jones family operated the restaurant until 1951, when they sold it to Art Holmes and Ashley Self, the owners of the Brigadoon restaurant in town. “The Brigadoon was quite the place, and so was the Goshen,” Dunn said. Holmes and Self renovated the Goshen and promoted the restaurant as a tourist destination, he added. “Every American who came into the province stopped at the Goshen on the way to Cape Breton,” he said. “Tour buses would be lined up there all the time.” Rita Scott began working at the Brigadoon in 1954, and waitressed at the Goshen beginning in 1961. Her husband Ron, who died late last year (2009), was the Goshen’s chef from 1954 until the 1980s. “I got there just about the time the tour buses were getting popular,” Scott said. “I can remember one day we had 23 buses and the power went out,” she added. “We kept on feeding them sandwiches.” Waitresses came from all over Nova Scotia to work at the Goshen, Scott said.“Tips were really, really good, but you’d work long shifts too.” No current restaurants are as busy as the Goshen was at its peak, Scott said. “You’d never be able to compare it.” Leonard Sampson bought the Goshen from Holmes and Self in 1973. “They were good people to work for,” Scott said. The Goshen was sold again in the 1980s to a Warner family. The restaurant went through a couple of iterations – including housing Hollywood Video – before closing down for good. Scott said she cherishes her memories of working at the Goshen. “We met a lot of good people,” she said. “There’ll never be another Goshen.”

Connor MacEachern (Reporter - The Casket, Antigonish NS)

connormac@thecasket.ca

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Well, did you expect them to be sold in the Canary Islands? These are, of course, the domestic canary bred for keeping in cages, but they are so popular here on the islands that there is hardly a flat or balcony without one. My bank has one inside the branch even. These were being sold, as well as cages and accessories, at a small side street florist - which is often the case, not just in pet shops - in Icod de los Viños. Selective breeding has arrived at these yellow fellas that hardly resemble the wild birds on the island, but I will just underline that, contrary to several misinformed reports I have read on the internet (don't believe everything you read online), there are still wild canaries (Serinus canaria) on these islands. Lots, in fact. Hundreds of them hang about on wires and in the trees and bushes around my house and sing all day, every day. It's a wonder they don't get laryngitis! :)

The most detailed English language website on the island

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On Monday we found out my sister in law is expecting! So excited to be an aunt!

1. maternity in green, 2. {17 weeks - explored}, 3. Untitled, 4. Untitled, 5. 30, 6. , 7. In bloom, 8. meet the polaroid swinger, 9. alex

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Events and Festivals in Torrox run from the start of the year all the way to December. Heres a brief overview of what to expect: January:6thof January is the date when the three kings Celebration takes place.February:This is the month when festivals start to happen in Torrox. Over the carnival period, expect humoristic shows (chirigotas) and dances in which dancers don unique costumes.May: Las Cruces de Mayo popularly known as the May Crosses festival is often characterisedby flowery houses. In place of the typical flowerpots, homeowners don their houses with flowers and polish up the crosses using shawls and doilies.June:Romeria de San Antonio is usually held on the 13thof June every other year. During this festival, theres a regular supply of delightful food and wine as well from Axarquia area. The event is hosted by the Las Protegidas district.On the 23rdof June, San Juans night takes place in Torrox. Water is the key item in this festival. Locals and visitors alike head out to the Torrox River where they soak themselves.August:Virgen de las Nieves (Patron Saint Day) takes place during this month. Its the event where the Virgin together with Saint Roque are picked from their dedicated chapel and taken to the Parish Church until October before they are transferred back.Our Lady of Carmel (Virgendel Carmen) is also held on the 15thof this month. Usually, the event is held in July but Torrox hosts it during this month just so that many visitors can have the opportunity to enjoy it. As the procession takes place, there will also be musical concerts, fishing competitions, amongst other events.September:Candelaria festival is held during this month. It involves Torrox town habitants moving to their farmhouses and then having lots of good drinks and food inside circles made of candles.October:October is famous for the October festival. The festival which is ever full of fireworks takes place over the first week and it involves honouring the transfer of the Virgin and San Roque back to their dedicated chapel.December:Migas Day Food takes place over this month just like it does in every other town and place in Costa del Sol. It takes place every Sunday leading up to Christmas. The festival is named after bread crumbs and bread plays a key role. In Andalusia, the celebration has earned so much recognition that it attracts even international tourists.Torrox FoodsTo make the most out of what Torrox has to offer when it comes to meals, be sure to come fully prepared to eat. Some of its top cuisines include:Migas Garlic friend bread crumbs served with a host of ingredients including peppers, cold cuts, sardines, just to name but a few.Arriera Salad Its a salad that comprises of onions, olives, oranges, tomatoes and cod.Papas a lopobrewhich is basically Potatoes that have been sauted with onion.Gazpacho This is cold tomato soup comprising of garlic, pepper, olive oil and cucumberAjoblanco soup This is a cold soup consisting of almond and creamy garlic and normally served with grapesNot to mention garlic soup, pumpkin casserole, fennel stem, sardines, and skewered anchovies.You can have any of these dishes served with some of the areas best regional wines. Or you can as well go for the exquisite arropias (regional sweeties) made out of sugar cane syrup and the wine flavoured pastries. https://youtu.be/Q3T5to9rkk8Visit ushttp://www.nerjatorroxholidayrentals.com/

My 14" bandsaw is a 1991 Grizzly and was expected to resaw the Cypress with miminal wood waste. The pictured part has two threaded knobs and has ears that ride up and down in slots on the main casting. This part puts tension on the blade and aligns the plane of the top wheel thus the tracking of the blade on both the bottom and top wheels.

This part was purchased two months ago to replace the original part which cracked. The saw has endured little use since I purchased it 20 years ago so I was surprised that the part cracked.

I called Grizzly for a replacement part and was informed that the part is no longer available so I figured I may have to go to a machine shop and have a replacement part fabricated...$$.

Two months ago I'm shopping in Harbor Freight and for grins checked out their 14" bandsaw and what device puts tension on the blade. Their part is identical to the one in my Grizzly. Next time I'm in Home Depot, I check out their Rigid 14" bandsaw and find the identical part for putting tension on the blade. Using a Rigid parts schematic, I order the part for $17 plus shipping.

Makes one wonder who manufactures tools and what the real difference is besides price? So, when equipment breaks and the OEM says no parts available, do some detective work and perhaps save yourself some serious $.

I discover that the ears on the replacement part are not sliding properly in the slots on the main casting. Seems the slots in the main casting were not machined properly when originally manufactured so the original sliding tensioning device was binding and cracked when I tightened down on the blade tensioning knob. Using my angle grinder, I fixed the slots in the main casting and the part now slides without binding.

Continuing my love hate relationship with my bandsaw, the motor with no load on it now growls and will not start so perhaps the start capacitor is gone.

Machines can hate you. I once had a 10 year old clothes washing machine that would periodically vomit soapy water on the floor. Never could find the problem and after the last and most significant flood, I put the machine in my driveway and using a sledge hammer and reciprocating saw, I killed it. A neighbor came over and asked Ann if I was ok. I wasn't, as I was putting out a Banzai scream with each blow of the sledge hammer.

I knew that if I threw the machine intact in the dump it would live on and return to haunt or infect the replacement washing machine. It was like killing a vampire...drive a stake through its heart.

The bandsaw may be next.

Crews are now working in Zone A, between S Jackson and E Cherry streets. Work in Zone A is expected to last for approximately eight months and then proceed into the other two zones. Construction of all three zones, between S Jackson and E John streets, should be complete by early 2017.

More info at www.seattle.gov/transportation/23rd_ave.htm

"Alberta" was 39 minutes early leaving Hellifield so I expected it to be early going over the Whalley Arches. My drone had been hovering up the cold for the best part of 20 minutes when I got a low battery warning so I landed, quickly replaced the battery and got it in the air again. Still no sign of "Alberta" hauling the Dalesman tour back from Carilsle. After a second low battery warning I moved my drone back so it was hovering directly above my head. A change in the warning signal from my controller then told me it was about to land in emergency mode. As "Alberta" came over the arches I took some stills with my FZ2000. Later when I heard that Andy had been shooting from the by-pass on the other side of the viaduct the name for this clip was obvious. Ironically the train was 2minutes late. Isn't technology wonderful! (My Movie 103)

Expecting and nursing mothers require social protection but workers in the informal economy are often not covered. Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Workplace support for mothers who are breastfeeding has been a basic provision of maternity protection. The Philippines expanded maternity leave benefits in 2019 to align with international labour standards. The ILO also promoted exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for Filipino children.

Photo : E. Tuyay / ILO

Date : 2011/11

Country : Philippines

EXPLORE - JUST about made it: #496, then 'climbed up' to 363 when I looked now - Not that I expected this at all, but THANKS to all!!! It just shows that even modest uploads can make it... although we all will never know why some do and others dont.....! Explore's ways are mysterious! :)

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My son got very ill, just two days before the 'wedding of the year' (as far we were concerned!).

See wedding day

He is, ten days later, much better now but along with battling his illness he had another battle to fight - injustice coming from his employer and his feeling of impotence against near accusations of 'only' pretending to be ill (when he was actually in hospital). My son told his boss that he would call his GP right now and free him from his medical confidentiality and it seems that his boss didn't go any further. BUT the damage was done and my son is not a very happy man. His great desire was that the apprentices who were having their examns last week, were doing well and he regretted not having had those final moments to accompany them and help them up to their last minute with tips, help and 'fake tests'...

He's now well enough to be just angry and thinking of looking for another job. And yes, I tell you this because he is a gardener....

He loves BLUE, he has blue eyes, he has a wonderful big heart and a huge sense of justice, friendship and is just sometimes too good for this harsh world.

This upload is a token of my thankfulness for him being better again and a sign of letting him know that he's ALWAYS in his mother's heart, mind and will always be there. Children stay children for their parents, even once they are old enough to have children of their own...

This is also one of the many imperfect, but so perfect delphiniums I bought on the market yesterday. Imperfect because of the storm damages (torn petals, broken off stems, holes in the flower heads, etc.) and yet perfect because nature is never imperfect.

Then, I found this rather touching poem and I just knew I had to twin it with my photo and my diary of today! Have a blessed Sunday and a great Saturday, or what's left of it!

Here you can see the 'bees' and 'insect traps' in a larger size!

I, Gardener,

am the god of this small earth.

My will prevails within its boundary.

My whim determines worth.

By my command these rocks shall be

laid up to silhouette the morning sun

and shade the anemone.

This pool shall clarify its cup

of sand, enlarge the motion of these fish

and bear the lily up.

My cedar, narrow sentinel,

shall exclaim against the pallor of the sky

with prim, funereal quill.

Never will I begrudge the sum

required to enrich the peony or rose,

phlox or delphinium

but what I cherish must obey

and live within the limits of my law

or be pulled and cast away.

I deem the proper fate of grass

is to be sheared and decree that all first buds

be pinched. I will harass

chicory and goldenrod

exposing their root, and banish dock, thistle

and garlic from my sod.

I will set poison for the mole,

dust to death the aphid, never ask

has the severed worm a soul.

Yet I will tolerate the moth and bee,

welcome the warbler and the wren, and catbird

if he chirp no irony.

(© Eunice de Chazeau)

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I never expected to see a butterfly when we went for a walk in the woods today, but if there was going to be one - it would be a Mourning Cloak! They over-winter and come out on warm days to sun. This is a large butterfly with pale yellow trim in warmer weather, looking gilded now as it basked on a log after gliding thru the woods like a large, brown and gold leaf! What a treat. (It was 60oF today)

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Explore, Dec. 29, 2008 @ 403, 105, seen @ 71

Winner, Nature's Pot-of-Gold challenge, nature shot in last 48 hrs. 12-08

Winner, Beautiful Challenge Group 10, shades of brown 12-08

Expecting and nursing mothers require social protection but workers in the informal economy are often not covered. Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Workplace support for mothers who are breastfeeding has been a basic provision of maternity protection. The Philippines expanded maternity leave benefits in 2019 to align with international labour standards. The ILO also promoted exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for Filipino children.

Photo : E. Tuyay / ILO

Date : 2011/11

Country : Philippines

Back across to the other side of Faversham, past a fellow orchid fanatic friend's house and out onto the marshes once again. And just when you think you have taken the wrong turn and run out of road, to the left you see the simple bellcote.

The approach to St Bartholomew's is down a long track, and the church is hudden behind a line of trees, so you really don't know what to expect.

The church seems surrounded by it's neighbouring farm, and the simple bellcote is currently supported by scaffolding. A simple two cell church with a large porch added at some point, and as expected from its rural location, a rustic church.

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Goodnestone was never the centre of a large population. Court and Church stood on slightly rising ground above the marshes of the River Swale, adjacent to the wealthier parish of Graveney whose church grew to outshine this `poor relation`. Today Goodnestone`s lack of prestige in the medieval period is cause for celebration as its simple two cell Norman construction is largely unaltered, other than for some enlarged windows and rebuilt chancel arch. The staircase that formerly lead to the Rood Loft remains in the north wall although this goes almost unnoticed as the visitor's eye is drawn to the simple Decorated window in the east wall. This is filled with stained glass produced by one of the most famous early nineteenth century practitioners in the newly rediscovered art, Thomas Willement. He lived just outside Faversham and many local churches have examples of his work. This is one of his better designs where scale, colour and technique combine to make something that is eminently suitable for its location. Nave, chancel, north porch, west belfry.

www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Goodnestone+1

IES the next parish eastward from Preston, and is the last to be described in this hundred. It should seem by its name once to have belonged to Godwin, earl of Kent, being termed in antient writings Goodwinstune, i. e. Godwin's town, or village.

It is a very small parish, lying on the north side of the high London road, at the 48th mile-stone, about half a mile's distance from it. The village and church are situated in the middle of the parish, which does not extend more than half a mile from them each way. It lies low in a flat and open country, and from its nearness and exposure to the marshes, very unhealthy, the lands in it are exceeding rich and fertile, like those in the same tract in Faversham and Preston described before, the fields are very level, large, and but little encumbered with trees or hedge-rows, what trees there are are elm, and there is no woodland.

A fair is held yearly on Sept. 26, for toys, pedlary, &c.

THIS PLACE was held in the reign of Henry III. by Simon de Turville, of the earl of Leicester, as lord paramount, who held it again of the king in capite by knight's service. (fn. 1) Of his successor Nicholas de Turville this estate was again held in the reign of king Edward II. by one of the family of Chiche, which had been seated at the Dungeon in Canterbury for some generations, in which city they were of eminent account, being possessed of the fee of the aldermanry of Burgate there.

In the 20th year of king Edward III. Thomas Chiche, of the Dungeon, paid respective aid for the manor of Goodneston, then held by knight's service. Thomas Chiche, his son, was sheriff of Kent in the 15th year of Richard II. and was grandfather of Valentine Chiche, esq. of the Dungeon, who left three daughters his coheirs; Margaret, first married to Clovill, of Essex, and secondly to John Judde, of Tunbridge; Emelyn, to Sir Thomas Kempe; and another married to Martyn, who on their father's death became jointly entitled to this manor. The two former of them alienated their interest in it, about the beginning of king Henry VIII.'s reign, to Oxenbridge, as the latter did to Pordage, of Rodmersham. Soon after which, the whole property of it, excepting the third part of the advowson of the church of Goodneston, seems to have become vested in the name of Finch, and John Finch having, anno 17 Elizabeth, levied a fine of it, passed it away to Mr. Robert Fagge, descended from the Fagges, of Willesborough. in which parish they held lands so early as the reign of king Edward III. He died possessed of this manor, and was succeeded in it by his son Mr. Edward Fagge, gent of Faversham, who died in 1618, and lies buried in Faversham church, having married Anne, daughter of Richard Theobald, esq. of Seal, widow of Thomas Nevison, esq. of Eastry, by whom he had one son Michael, killed abroad in the Dutch wars, and buried at Utrecht, and two daughters, who became his coheirs, Mary, married to Sir Edward Partrich, of Bridge, whose first wife she was, and Anne, to Sir John Proude, being his second wife. The former died without issue, and the latter left by Sir John Proude, who was killed in 1628, at the siege of Groll, in Guelderland, being in the service of the states of Holland against the Spaniards, one son Edward, and a daughter Anne, who on the death of her brother without issue became entitled to this manor. The Proudes bore for their arms, Azure, three otters in pale, or, each holding in its mouth a fish, argent. (fn. 2) Many of of this family lie buried in St. Alphage's church, in Canterbury, where they resided for several generations. Anne Proude above-mentioned first married Sir William Springate, and afterwards Mr. Isaac Pennington, eldest son of Sir Isaac Pennington, lord-mayor in 1643, a most atrocious republican, who bore for his arms, Argent, five fusils in fess, azure, (fn. 3) who in her right became possessed of this manor, which continued in his descendants till at length Mr. Pennington, of Philadelphia, becoming entitled to it, conveyed it by sale, about the year 1748, to Michael Lade, gent: of Canterbury, who was descended of a family originally spelt both Lad and Ladd, who were of good antiquity in this county, in several parts of which they were possessed of lands as early as Edward the 1st.'s reign, which still bear their name. In king Edward the IVth.'s reign a branch of them was settled at Elham, one of them, John Ladd, of that place, died in 1527, whose youngest son Thomas settled at Barham, where many of his descendants lie buried. His grandson Vincent Lad, for so he spelt his name, died in 1625, leaving several sons, of whom Robert the eldest, who first spelt his name Lade, was of Gray's-inn a barrister-at-law, and recorder of Canterbury, to whom Segar, garter, granted the arms of Argent, a fess, wavy, between three escallops, sable. He was ancestor of the Lades, of Boughton, as Thomas, a younger son, was of the Lades, of Warbleton, in Sussex, from whom Sir John Lade, who was created a baronet in 1730, and the present Sir John Lade, bart. are descended. The former of whom still bear the above coat of arms, but the latter have changed the field for distinction, to or.

Michael Lade, the purchaser of this estate as before-mentioned, afterwards retired to Faversham, where he died in 1778, and was buried in BoughtonBlean church. He left two sons, John, of whom hereafter; and Michael, barrister-at-law, who married Sophia, lady dowager Cranston; and one daughter Elizabeth, married to Mr. Benjamin Browne. John Lade, esq. of Boughton-Blean and Canterbury, the eldest son, is the present possessor of the manor of Goodneston, and married Hester, sole daughter and heir of Mr. Hills Hobday, gent. of Faversham. She died in 1778, by whom he has three sons, John Hobday, now an officer in the militia; William, A. M. and rector of Knolton; and Charles, late an officer in the army; and one daughter Hester, married to William Stacey Coast, esq. now of Sevenoke.

A court baron is held for this manor.

There are no parochial charities. The poor constantly relieved are four, casually not more than one or two at most.

GOODNESTON is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Ospringe.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Bartholomew, consists of one isle and a chancel, with a small wooden spire at the west end, in which there is one bell. In the porch lies buried William Benet, rector of this church, 1490.

It appears by the Tower records of 1279, anno 8 Edward I. that Richard le Dagh, and Eleanor his wife, sold their lands here, and the advowson of the church, to Stephen Chiche, citizen of Canterbury, with a part of Blean wood, and some land lying below it. (fn. 4)

¶After which the patronage of it seems to have sollowed the like succession of owners that the manor did, till the reign of queen Elizabeth, when it became vested with it in Judde, Kempe, and Martyn; at the latter end of which, the two turns of presentation to it, which had belonged to the two former, became vested in Fagg, and the third turn in the Pordages, of Rodmersham, successors to the Martyns at Graveney-court; in which state they continued in 1640. In 1678 the Penningtons, owners of the manor, possessed two turns, and the Whites, of Vintners, in Box ley, who had become possessors of Graveney court, the other turn, from which name it passed to that of Blaxland, of Graveney-court, where it still continues. But the two turns belonging to Pennington were sold with the manor, about the year 1748, to Michael Lade, gent. of Faversham, whose son John Lade, esq. of Boughton, owner of Goodneston manor, is at this time entitled to them.

This church is a rectory, and a discharged living in the king's books, of the clear yearly certified value of thirty pounds, the yearly tenths of which are 10s. 3d.

In 1578 there were communicants here thirty-three; in 1640 twenty-four only, the value of it being then forty pounds per annum.

This rectory is endowed with all tithes whatsoever. There is a house and three acres of glebe land belonging to it.

An acre of land, called the Church Acre, belongs to the church, but it is not known who gave it.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp549-555

Believe it or not, I had not visited St Augustine's before. Not through want of trying, I had followed the signs from the city centre several times, but they peter out. However, a few months ago, we parked in a different place so I could visit a camera shop, and there was the entrance.

So, a few weeks back, after visiting the Cathedral, we headed to the Abbey. I really did not know what to expect, I have been to other ruined abbeys, but this is on a grander scale than all the others, and it seemed to me, the destruction more complete.

But it was here, in Canterbury, that St Augustine set up his mission, built his church and, in time, was buried.

Looking at the site now, and with the cathedral so close, Canterbury was little else other than church.

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St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England.[2] The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation. After the abbey's dissolution, it underwent dismantlement until 1848. Since 1848, part of the site has been used for educational purposes and the abbey ruins have been preserved for their historical value.

In 597, Augustine arrived in Anglo-Saxon England, having been sent by the missionary-minded Pope Gregory I to convert the Anglo-Saxons.[4] The King of Kent at this time was Æthelberht or Ethelbert. Although he worshipped in a pagan temple just outside the walls of Canterbury to the east of the city, Ethelbert was married to a Christian, Bertha. According to tradition, the king not only gave his temple and its precincts to St Augustine for a church and monastery,[4] he also ordered that the church to be erected be of "becoming splendour, dedicated to the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and endowed it with a variety of gifts." One purpose of the foundation was to provide a residence for Augustine and his brother monks. As another, both King Ethelbert and Augustine foresaw the abbey as a burial place for abbots, archbishops, and kings of Kent.[5]

William Thorne, the 14th century chronicler of the abbey, records 598 as the year of the foundation.[5] The monastic buildings were most likely wooden in the manner of Saxon construction, so they could be quickly built. However, building a church of solid masonry, like the churches Augustine had known in Rome, took longer.[6] The church was completed and consecrated in 613. Ca. 624 a short distance to the east, Eadbald, son and successor of Ethelbert, founded a second church, dedicated to Saint Mary which also buried Kentish royalty.[7] The abbey became known as St Augustine's after the founder's death.[8]

For two centuries after its founding, St Augustine's was the only important religious house in the kingdom of Kent.[9] The historian G. F. Maclear characterized St Augustine's as being a "missionary school" where "classical knowledge and English learning flourished."[10] Over time, St Augustine's Abbey acquired an extensive library that included both religious and secular holdings. In addition, it had a scriptorium for producing manuscripts.

Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury from 959 to 988, influenced a reorganisation of the abbey to conform to Benedictine rule. Buildings were enlarged and the church rebuilt. Dunstan also revised the dedication of the abbey, from the original Saints Peter and Paul, by adding Saint Augustine in 978.[12] Since then, the abbey has been known as St Augustine's.

The invading Danes not only spared St Augustine's, but in 1027 King Cnut made over all the possessions of Minster-in-Thanet to St Augustine's. These possessions included the preserved body of Saint Mildred. Belief in the miraculous power of this relic had spread throughout Europe, and it brought many pilgrims to St Augustine's, whose gifts enriched the abbey.

Following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, William the Conqueror confiscated landed estates, but he respected Church property.[15] At St Augustine's Abbey, the Anglo-Saxon buildings were completely reconstructed in the form of a typical Norman Benedictine monastery.[8] By 1100, all the original buildings had disappeared under a Romanesque edifice. There was further rebuilding as a result of the great fire in 1168.[16] The fire's destruction accounts for the paucity of historical records for the preceding period.[17]

From about 1250 onwards was a period of wealth in which "building succeeded building."[18] Boggis' history calls this period a time of "worldly magnificence," marked by "lavish expenditures" on new buildings, royal visits, and banquets with thousands of guests. In addition, the papacy imposed many levies on the abbey. The large debt that was incurred by these expenditures might have swamped the abbey had it not been for generous benefactors who came to the rescue.[19]

The cloister, frater (refectory) and kitchen were totally rebuilt. A new abbot's lodging and a great hall were added. In the early 14th century, land was acquired for a cellarer's range (living and working quarters for the cellarer who was responsible for provisioning the abbey's cellarium), a brewhouse, a bakehouse, and a new walled vineyard. A Lady chapel was built to the east of the church.

The abbey gatehouse was rebuilt from 1301 to 1309 by Abbot Fyndon. It has since been known as the Fyndon Gate or the Great Gate. The chamber above the entrance was the state bed-chamber of the Monastery. In 1625, Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria slept in this chamber, following their marriage in Canterbury Cathedral.[20] In 1660, after the Restoration, Charles II and his brothers, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, stayed in the gatehouse on their way to London.[21]

Fyndon's gate suffered such damage by German bombs during the Second World War that it had to be rebuilt.[20] The gate faces a small square known since the reign of Charles I as Lady Wootton's Green."[21] Statues of Æthelberht of Kent and Queen Bertha stand on the green.

Boggis describes the early 16th century leading up to the Dissolution of the Monasteries as "days of decadence". Although the abbey owned estates throughout Kent amounting to 19,862 acres, Boggis holds that "historical evidence proves conclusively that even if Henry VIII. had never dissolved them, the English monasteries were already doomed." The "extortionate exactions" of the Papacy would lead to bankruptcy.[22]

However, the English Reformation accompanied by the Dissolution of the Monasteries happened before bankruptcy. The Reformation replaced the Pope (a cleric) with a Monarch (a layman). Actions by the Parliament's House of Commons strengthened the power of the laity versus the power of the clergy. These actions were part of the English Reformation’s "great transfer" of power, both economic and religious, from Ecclesiastical to Secular authorities.[23]

As part of the "great transfer," Parliament gave King Henry VIII authority to dissolve the monasteries and confiscate the property for the Crown. The rationale given was "that the religious houses had ceased to apply their property to the specific religious uses for which it was originally given."[15]

On 30 July 1538, the King's Commissioners arrived to take the surrender of St Augustine's Abbey. The last abbot and monks complied and left the abbey. The abbey, with its site, its goods, buildings, lands and all other possessions, became the property of the Crown. This dissolution ended over 940 years of monastic presence.

During the rest of Henry's reign, St Augustine's Abbey was held by the Crown with some of its buildings converted into a royal residence. However, in other parts of the abbey dismantling and sale of material began in 1541.[25] Some of the stone was used in the fortifications of the Pale of Calais, but more of it was sold locally. The library, containing two thousand manuscripts, was destroyed and the treasure plundered.[26]

The royal residence was used occasionally by the royal family as late as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, during which the buildings were leased to a succession of noblemen.[25][26] In 1558, Elizabeth leased the palace to Henry Lord Cobham. During Lord Cobham’s possession, the Queen kept her court here while on one of her royal progresses.[27] Lord Cobham was a resident of Kent who had served her faithfully as a diplomat and parliamentarian.[28] On the attainder of Lord Cobham for treason in 1603 under the reign of James I, the residence was granted to Robert Cecil, Lord Essenden.[27]

After Cecil died in 1612, the residence passed to Edward, Lord Wootton of Marley (sometimes spelled "Wotton").[29] Lord Wootton employed John Tradescant the elder to lay out formal gardens. Wootton died in 1626, but Lady Wootton lived on in her palace until her death in 1658. The open space before the gateway is still known as Lady Wootton's Green.[30]

Sir Edward Hales (1626–1684) took possession of the property after Lady Wooton’s death, to be followed by his son Sir Edward Hales (1645–1695). Rather than conserving the property, these new owners dismantled the buildings and carried used stones to build a new house at Hales Place.[29]

From then on until 1844, the desolation continued until it had engulfed the church, cloister, kitchen and refectory.[31] Other parts of the site suffered degradation. From 1770 to 1844, the Alfred Beer & Company brewery operated within the abbey precincts.[32] In 1804, a portion of the site was divided into lots and sold. The Great Court was used as a bowling green and skittle ground. Ethelbert's Tower, the remaining tower of the Norman abbey, was taken down in 1822.[26] Robert Ewell, in his Guide to St. Augustine’s Monastery and Missionary College wrote that in the first half of the 19th century, the abbey "reached its lowest point of degradation".

The condition of the abbey did not go unnoticed. In 1844 a rich young landowner, member of parliament, and generous churchman, Alexander James Beresford Hope, visited the ruins, found them deplorable, and bought them. Inspired by the missionary zeal of the Reverend Edward Coleridge, Hope and other donors gave additional money to restore and construct buildings for the establishment of a college to train young men as missionaries in the British colonies.[26] They envisioned a dual purpose for the college: (a) to educate missionaries and (b) to excavate and preserve the abbey remains.[33] St Augustine's Missionary College remained in existence until 1947.[34] However, on the night of 31 May 1942, its buildings were so badly damaged by a German blitz that the College ceased operations.[35]

English Heritage entrance on Longport to St Augustine's Abbey ruins[1]

From 1952 to 1967, the Missionary College buildings were used as The Central College of the Anglican Communion.[36]

Since 1976, the college buildings (plus some new ones) have been used by the King's School, Canterbury, for boarding houses and the School Library. This part of the St Augustine's Abbey site was purchased by the School in 1994.[37]

The ruins of the abbey are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site[38] in the care of English Heritage.

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