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Activity at the hot steaming show kitchen. Steam buns being prepared for the orders at the counter. A scene at the restaurant....kopitiam's.
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Nice to be home; but another misty, dank drizzly day found me skulking around Saddleworth during my lunch hour trying to get a reasonable image. The rain was that fine it got everywhere; I had to wipe my lens between each image, light was poor so thought I’d head to this derelict pub and as I hoped for a bit of contrast between the white painted walls and the grim weather!
The pub is called the Horse and Jockey and closed in the early 90's, it was severely damaged by fire in 1997; it’s now slowly succumbing to the moorland weather and gravity.
My FL tan Chloe & tan Pukifee Vanilla, Secretdoll Ethnic Person 21 and Iplehouse Pixxie Twinky have all shipped this week despite being purchased at different times! I'm so excited!!
A long planned visit to Leeds to record the church.
Leeds is just off the M20, and nearby to Leeds Castle, which means the roads are often busy. St Nicholas is on the main road leading up the down, but before the road gets narrow as it winds between the timber framed houses. Thankfully there is good parking next door, so we were able to get off the main road and out of the traffic, as unbeknown to us, there was a classical music show on that night, and most of Kent were going and in the process of arriving.
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One of the largest twelfth-century towers in Kent. The arch between tower and nave is of three very plain orders with no hint of the usual zigzag moulding of the period, and is so large that a meeting room has recently been built into it. The nave has three bay aisles and short chapels to north and south of the chancel. The outstanding rood screen was partially reconstructed in 1892, and runs the full width of nave and aisles - with the staircase doorways in the south aisle. That the chancel was rebuilt in the sixteenth century may be seen by the plain sedilia through which is cut one of two hagioscopes from chapels to chancel. The north chapel contains some good seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tablets and monuments. The stained glass shows some excellent examples of the work of Heaton, Butler and Bayne (south aisle) whilst there is an uncharacteristically poor example of the work of C.E. Kempe & Co. Ltd. in the north aisle. The church has recently been reordered to provide a spacious, light and manageable interior with excellent lighting and a welcoming atmosphere without damaging the character of the building.
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LEEDS
IS the next parish southward from Hollingborne. Kilburne says, that one Ledian, a chief counsellor to king Ethelbert II. who began his reign in 978, raised a fortress here, which was called in Latin, from him, Ledani Castrum, and in process of time in English, LEEDS. This castle was afterwards demolished by the Danes, and continued in that situation till the time of the Norman conquest.
THE PRESENT CASTLE is situated at the southeast boundary of this parish, adjoining to Bromfield, which includes a part of the castle itself. It is situated in the midst of the park, an ample description of it the reader will find hereafter. The Lenham rivulet takes its course through the park, and having supplied the moat, in which the castle stands, and the several waters in the grounds there, and having received into it the several small streamlets from Hollingborne, and one from the opposite side, which comes from Leeds abbey, it flows on, and at a small distance from Caring street, in this parish, adjoining to Bersted, the principal estate of which name there belongs to the Drapers company, it turns a mill, and then goes on to Maidstone, where it joins the river Medway. The high road from Ashford and Lenham runs close by the outside of the pales of Leeds park, at the northern boundary of the parish next to Hollingborne, and thence goes on towards Bersted and Maidstone, from which the park is distant a little more than five miles; here the soil is a deep sand, but near the river it changes to a black moorish earth. Southward from the castle the ground rises, at about three quarters of a mile south-west from it is Leeds abbey, the front of which is a handsome well-looking building, of the time of queen Elizabeth. It is not unpleasantly situated on a gentle eminence, and is well watered by a small stream which rises just above it, and here turns a mill. It is well cloathed with wood at the back part of it, to which the ground still keeps rising; adjoining to the abbey grounds westward is Leeds-street, a long straggling row of houses, near a mile in length, having the church at the south end of it; here the soil becomes a red unfertile earth much mixed with slints, which continues till it joins to Langley and Otham.
LEEDS was part of those possessions given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother Odo, bishop of Baieux; accordingly it is thus entered, under the general title of that prelate's lands, in the survey of Domesday, taken in the year 1080.
Adelold holds of the bishop (of Baieux) Esiedes. It was taxed at three sulings. The arable land is twelve carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and twenty-eight villeins, with eight borderers, having seven carucates. There is a church, and eighteen servants. There are two arpends of vineyard, and eight acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of twenty bogs, and five mills of the villeins. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, it was worth sixteen pounds, the like when be received it, now twenty pounds, and yet it pays twentyfive pounds. Earl Leuuin held it.
Of this manor the abbot of St. Augustine has half a suling, which is worth ten shillings, in exchange of the park of the bishop of Baieux. The earl of Ewe has four denns of this manor, which are worth twenty shillings.
The mention of the two arpends of vineyard in the above survey, is another instance of there having been such in this county in early times, some further observations of which the reader will find in the description of the parish of Chart Sutton, not far distant, and he will likewise observe, that at the above time the bishop of Baieux had a park here, which he acquired by exchange with the abbot of St. Augustine, who must therefore have had possessions here before that time.
On the bishop of Baieux's disgrace, about four years after the taking of the above-mentioned survey, this estate, among the rest of his possessions, became consiscated to the crown.
After which it was granted by king William to the eminent family of Crevequer, called in antient charters Creveceur, and in Latin, De Crepito Corde, who at first made Chatham in this county their seat, or caput baroniæ, i. e. the principal manor of their barony, for some time, until they removed hither, being before frequently written Domini de Cetham.
Robert, son of Hamon de Crevequer, who had probably a grant of Leeds from the Conqueror, appears to have held it of the king, as of his castle of Dover, in capite by barony, their barony, which consisted of five knight's sees, being stiled Baronia de Crevequer . (fn. 1) He erected the castle here, to which he asterwards removed the capital seat of his barony. This castle being environed with water, was frequently mentioned in antient writings by the name of Le Mote. In the north-west part of it he built a chapel, in which he placed three canons, which on his foundation of the priory of Leeds, in the 19th year of king Henry I. he removed thither.
His descendant, Hamon de Crevequer, lived in the reign of king Henry III. in the 19th year of which, he was joined with Walterand Teutonicus, or Teys, in the wardenship of the five ports, and the next year had possession granted to him of the lands of William de Albrincis or Averenches, whose daughter and heir Maud he had married. He died in the 47th year of king Henry III. possessed of the manor of Ledes, held of the king in capite, as belonging to his barony of Chatham; upon which Robert, his grandson, viz. son of Hamon his son, who died in his life-time, succeeded him as his heir, and in the 52d year of that reign, exchanged the manor of Ledes, with its appurtenances, together with a moiety of all his fees, with Roger de Leyburne, for the manors of Trottesclyve and Flete. He lest William de Leyburne, his son and heir, who in the 2d year of king Edward I. had possession granted to him of the manor of Ledes, as well as of the rest of his inheritance, of which Eleanor, countess of Winchester, his father's widow, was not endowed. (fn. 2)
His son, William de Leyborne, observing that the king looked on the strength of this fortress with a jealous eye, in the beginning of king Edward Ist.'s reign reinstated the crown in the possession of both the manor and castle; and the king having, in his 27th year married Margaret, sister of Philip, king of France, he settled them, being then of the clear yearly value of 21l. 6s. 8d. among other premises, as part of her dower. She survived the king her husband, who died in 1307, and in the 5th year of the next reign of king Edward II. by the king's recommendation, appointed Bartholomew de Badlesmere, a nobleman of great power and eminence, and much in that prince's favor, governor of this castle. (fn. 3) She died possessed of them in the 10th year of that reign; on which they came once more into the hands of the crown, and in the beginning of the next year the king appointed Bartholomew de Badlesmere, above-mentioned, governor of this castle, as well as of that of Bristol. In the 11th year of that reign, the king granted to him in see, this manor and castle, and the advowson of the priory of Ledes, in exchange for the manor of Addresley, in Shropshire. Being possessed of great possessions, especially in this county, he was usually stiled, the rich lord Badlesmere of Ledes. Being pussed up through ambition and his great wealth, he forgot his allegiance, and associated himself with the earl of Lancaster, and the discontented barons; which the king being well informed of, resolved, if possible, to gain possession of this strong fortress of Ledes: to effect which, under pretence of the queen's going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, she set forward for that city with a large train of attendants, and, with a secret intention of surprising this castle, sent her marshal with others of her servants, to prepare lodging for her and her suit in it. The lord Badlesmere's family, that is, his wife, son, and four daughters, were at that time in it, together with all his treasure, deposited there for safety, under the care of Thomas Colepeper, the castellan, who refused the queen's servants admittance, and on her coming up, peremptorily persisted in denying her or any one entrance, without letters from his lord. The queen, upon this, made some attempt to gain admittance by force, and a skirmish ensued, in which one or more of her attendants were slain, but being repulsed, she was obliged to relinquish her design, and to retire for a lodging elsewhere.
The king, chagrined at the failure of his scheme, and highly resenting the indignity offered to the queen, sent a force under the earls of Pembroke and Richmond, to besiege the castle; (fn. 4) and those within it finding no hopes of relief, for though the lord Badlesmere had induced the barons to endeavours to raise the siege, yet they never advanced nearer than Kingston, yielded it up. Upon which, the lady Badlesmere and her children were sent prisoners to the tower of London, Thomas Colepeper, the castellan, was hung up, and the king took possession of the castle, as well as of all the lord Badlesmere's goods and treasures in it. But by others, Thomas de Aldone is said to have been castellan at this time, and that the castle being taken, he, with the lord Badlesmere's wife, his only son Giles, his daughters, Sir Bartholomew de Burgershe, and his wife, were sent to the tower of London by the king's order; and that afterwards, he caused Walter Colepeper, bailiff of the Seven Hundreds, to be drawn in a pitiable manner at the tails of horses, and to be hung just by this castle; on which Thomas Colepeper, and others, who were with him in Tunbridge castle, hearing of the king's approach, sled to the barons.
After which the lord Badlesmere, being taken prisoner in Yorkshire, was sent to Canterbury, and there drawn and hanged at the gallows of Blean, and his head being cut off, was set on a pole on Burgate, in that city. Upon which the manor and castle of Leeds, became part of the royal revenue and the castle remained in a most ruinous condition till the year 1359, anno 34 Edward III. in which year that munisicent prelate, William of Wickham, was constituted by the king, chief warden and surveyor of his castle of Ledes, among others, (fn. 5) having power to appoint all workmen, to provide materials, and to order every thing with regard to building and repairs; and in those manors to hold leets and other courts of trespass and misdemeanors, and to enquire of the king's liberties and rights; and from his attention to the re-edisying and rebuilding the rest of them, there is little doubt but he restored this of Leeds to a very superior state to whatever it had been before, insomuch, that it induced king Richard to visit it several times, particularly in his 19th year, in which several of his instruments were dated at his castle of Ledes; and it appears to have been at that time accounted a fortress of some strength, for in the beginning of the next reign, that unfortunate prince was, by order of king Henry IV. sent prisoner to this castle; and that king himself resided here part of the month of April in his 2d year.
After which, archbishop Arundel, whose mind was by no means inferior to his high birth, procured a grant of this castle, where he frequently resided and kept his court, whilst the process against the lord Cobham was carrying forward, and some of his instruments were dated from his castle of Ledes in the year 1413, being the year in which he died. On his death it reverted again to the crown, and became accounted as one of the king's houses, many of the principal gentry of the county being instrusted with the custody of it:
In the 7th year of king Henry V. Joane of Navarre, the second queen of the late king Henry IV. being accused of conspiring against the life of the king, her son-in-law, was committed to Leeds-castle, there to remain during the king's pleasure; and being afterwards ordered into Sir John Pelham's custody, he removed her to the castle of Pevensey, in Sussex.
In the 18th year of king Henry VI. archbishop Chichele sat at the king's castle of Leeds, in the process against Eleanor, duchess of Gloucester, for forcery and witchcrast.
King Edward IV. in his 11th year, made Ralph St. Leger, esq. of Ulcomb, who had served the office of sheriff of this county three years before, constable of this castle for life, and annexed one of the parks as a farther emolument to that office. He died that year, and was buried with his ancestors at Ulcomb.
Sir Thomas Bourchier resided at Leeds castle in the 1st year of king Richard III. in which year he had commission, among others of the principal gentry of this county, to receive the oaths of allegiance to king Richard, of the inhabitants of the several parts of Kent therein mentioned; in which year, the king confirmed the liberties of Leeds priory, in recompence of twentyfour acres of land in Bromfield, granted for the enlargement of his park of Ledes.
In the 4th year of king Henry VIII. Henry Guildford, esq. had a grant of the office of constable of Leeds castle, and of the parkership of it; and in the 12th year of that reign, he had a grant of the custody of the manor of Leeds, with sundry perquisities, for forty years. He died in the 23d year of that reign, having re-edisied great part of the castle, at the king's no small charge.
But the fee simple of the manor and castle of Leeds remained in the hands of the crown, till Edward VI. in his 6th year, granted them, with their appurtenances in the parishes of Leeds, Langley, and Sutton, to Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy of Ireland, to hold in capite by knight's service.
His son, Sir Warham St. Leger, succeeded him in this manor and castle, and was afterwards chief governor of Munster, in Ireland, in which province he was unfortunately slain in 1599, (fn. 6) but before his death he alienated this manor and castle to Sir Richard Smyth, fourth son of Thomas Smyth, esq. of Westenhanger, commonly called Customer Smyth.
Sir Richard Smyth resided at Leeds castle, of which he died possessed in 1628, and was buried in Ashford church, where there is a costly monument erected to his memory.
Sir John Smith, his only son, succeeded his father, and resided at Leeds castle, and dying s. p. in 1632, was buried in this church; upon which his two sisters, Alice, wife of Sir Timothy Thornhill, and Mary, of Maurice Barrow, esq. became his coheirs, and entitled their respective husbands to the property of this manor and castle, which they afterwards joined in the sale of to Sir T. Culpeper, of Hollingborne, who settled this estate, after his purchase of it, on his eldest son Cheney Culpeper, remainder to his two other sons, Francis and Thomas. Cheney Culpeper, esq. resided at Leedscastle for some time, till at length persuading his brother Sir Thomas Culpeper, of Hollingborne, (then his only surviving brother, Francis being dead. s. p.) to cut off the entail of this estate, he alienated it to his cousin Sir John Colepeper, lord Colepeper, only son of Sir John Culpeper, of Wigsell, in Sussex, whose younger brother Francis was of Greenway-court, in Hollingborne, and was father of Sir Thomas Culpeper, the purchaser of this estate as before-mentioned.
Sir John Colepeper represented this county in parliament in the 16th year of king Charles I. and being a person, who by his abilities had raised himself much in the king's favor, was made of his privy council, and chancellor of the exchequer, afterwards master of the rolls, and governor of the Isle of Wight. During the troubles of that monarch, he continued stedfast to the royal cause, and as a reward for his services, was in 1644 created lord Colepeper, baron of Thoresway, in Lincolnshire.
After the king's death he continued abroad with king Charles II. in his exile. During his absence, Leeds-castle seems to have been in the possession of the usurping powers, and to have been made use of by them, for the assembling of their committee men and sequestrators, and for a receptacle to imprison the ejected ministers, for in 1652, all his estates had been declared by parliament forfeited, for treason against the state. He died in 1660, a few weeks only after the restoration, and was buried at Hollingborne. He bore for his arms, Argent, a bend ingrailed gules, the antient bearing of this family; he left by his second wife Judith, daughter of Sir Thomas Culpeper, of Hollingborne, several children, of whom Thomas was his successor in title and estates, and died without male issue as will be mentioned hereafter, John succeeded his brother in the title, and died in 1719 s. p. and Cheney succeeded his brother in the title, and died at his residence of Hoston St. John, in 1725, s. p. likewise, by which the title became extinct; they all, with the rest of the branch of the family, lie buried at Hollingborne. Thomas, lord Colepeper, the eldest son, succeeded his father in title, and in this manor and castle, where he resided, and having married Margaret, daughter of Signior Jean de Hesse, of a noble family in Germany, he left by her a sole daughter and heir Catherine, who intitled her husband Thomas, lord Fairfax, of Cameron, in Scotland, to this manor and castle, with his other estates in this neighbourhood.
The family of Fairfax appear by old evidences in the hands of the family to have been in possession of lands in Yorkshire near six hundred years ago. Richard Fairfax was possessed of lands in that county in the reign of king John, whose grandson William Fairfax in the time of king Henry III. purchased the manor of Walton, in the West Riding, where he and his successors resided for many generations afterwards, and from whom descended the Fairfax's, of Walton and Gilling, in Yorkshire; of whom, Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Gilling, was created viscount Fairfax, of the kingdom of Ireland, which title became extinct in 1772; and from a younger branch of them descended Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Denton, who lived in queen Elizabeth's reign, and changed the original field of his coat armour from argent to or, bearing for his arms, Or, 3 bars gemelles, gules, surmounted of a lion rampant, sable, crown'd, of the first, and was father of Sir. T. Fairfax, who was, for his services to James and Charles I. created in 1627 lord Fairfax, baron of Cameron, in Scotland. He died in 1640, having had ten sons and two daughters; of whom, Ferdinando was his successor; Henry was rector of Bolton Percy, and had two sons, Henry, who became lord Fairfax, and Bryan, who was ancestor of Bryan Fairfax, late commissioner of the customs; and colonel Charles Fairfax, of Menston, was the noted antiquary, whose issue settled there.
Ferdinando, the second lord Fairfax, in the civil wars of king Charles I. was made general of the parliamentary forces, and died at York in 1646. His son, Sir Thomas Fairfax, succeeded him as lord Fairfax, and in all his posts under the parliament, and was that famous general so noted in English history during the civil wars, being made commander in chief of all the parliamentary forces; but at last he grew so weary of the distress and confusion which his former actions had brought upon his unhappy country, that he heartily concurred in the restoration of king Charles II. After which he retired to his seat at Bilborough, in Yorkshire, where he died in 1671, and was buried there, leaving by Anne, daughter and coheir of Horatio, lord Vere of Tilbury, a truly loyal and virtuous lady, an only daughter; upon which the title devolved to Henry Fairfax, esq. of Oglesthorpe, in Yorkshire, his first cousin, eldest son of Henry, rector of Bolton Percy, the second son of Thomas, the first lord Fairfax. Henry, lord Fairfax, died in 1680, and was succeeded by his eldest son Thomas, fifth lord Fairfax, who was bred to a military life, and rose to the rank of a brigadier-general. He represented Yorkshire in several parliaments and marrying Catherine, daughter and heir of Thomas, lord Colepeper, possessed, in her right this manor and castle, and other large possessions, as before-mentioned. (fn. 7)
He died possessed of them in 1710, leaving three sons and four daughters, Thomas, who succeeded him as lord Fairfax; Henry Culpeper, who died unmarried, in 1734; and Robert, of whom hereafter. Of the daughters, Margaret married David Wilkins, D. D. and prebendary of Canterbury, and Francis married Denny Martin, esq. Thomas, lord Fairfax, the son, resided at Leeds-castle till his quitting England, to reside on his great possessions in Virginia, where he continued to the time of his death. On his departure from England, he gave up the possession of this manor and castle, with his other estates in this neighbourhood, to his only surviving brother, the hon. Robert Fairfax, who afterwards resided at Leeds-castle, and on his brother's death unmarried, in 1782, succeeded to the title of lord Fairfax. He was at first bred to a military life, but becoming possessed of Leeds castle, he retired there, and afterwards twice served in parliament for the town of Maidstoue, as he did afterwards in two successive parliaments for this county. He was twice married; first to Marsha, daughter and coheir of Anthony Collins, esq. of Baddow, in Essex, by whom he had one son, who died an instant; and, secondly, to one of the daughters of Thomas Best, esq. of Chatham, who died s. p. in 1750. Lord Fairfax dying s. p. in 1793, this castle and manor, with the rest of his estates in this county, came to his nephew the Rev. Denny Martin, the eldest son of his sister Frances, by Denny Martin, esq. of Loose, who had before his uncle's death been created D. D. and had, with the royal licence, assumed the name and arms of Fairfax. Dr. Fairfax is the present possessor of this manor and castle, and resides here, being at present unmarried.
A court leet and court baron is held for the manor of Leeds, at which three borsholders are appointed. It is divided into six divisions, or yokes as they are called, viz. Church-yoke, Ferinland-yoke, Mill-yoke, Russerken-yoke, Stockwell-yoke, and Lees-yoke.
last shout in North Skelton Club ! my mate Ian was at the bar, getting me a "lil" one, a good Whisky I like a nice single malt along with my Lager
157 and 153 sit on Track 2 in New Rochelle, having just arrived from the Arch Street Shops. Soon, they will have another set of Metro-North M7s to take back with them.
Built under orders by Kitchener to supply the British Army in the war against the Mahdi in the late 19th century, when I visited the area between Wadi Haifa and Station 10 (where the Sudanese railroad branches), the railroad was disused. An employee, proud in his uniform, told me that trains would start again the next day. Given how many of the tracks were still covered by sand, I was not optimistic: however, the railroad did start again (months rather than hours later) in 2013.
Said to be the oldest in Britain.
Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal - Tuesday 6th September 1814
ATROCIOUS MURDER.
The 28th regiment of Foot, which had been quartered at Pendennis, since the disbanding of the Royal Mlners, having received orders to proceed by forced march to Plymouth, for the purpose of embarking there for America; the baggage passed through Lost withiel on Sunday last.
Four of the baggage guard, who had been drinking at a public house remained when the party moved forward it should seem, unconscious of the departure of their comrades.
Two of the four were so much intoxicated, as to render it impossible for them to proceed, and the other two who appeared in.full possession of their senses, applied to the constable, to procure a cart to convey the drunken men to the next town.
This the constable refused to do, as did a Magistrate who happened to be passing by at the time. An altercation ensued, and the soldiers threatened to shoot the constable, who prudently retreated into his house and shut the door.
Enraged at this they fixed their bayonets, with which they menaced some persons who stood by, at the same time threatened to fire through the constable's door, and proceeded to charge their muskets with ball cartridges, which had been served out to them as part of the baggage guard.
After having loaded their pieces they walked down Fore-street, one of them presenting his musket in different directions, and attempting to fire it amongst the people, a number of whom were assembled in the street; happily the ruffian was unable to effect his purpose, as the piece flashed in the pan without going off.
Having proceeded in this way for some distance, regardless of the remonstrances and intreaties of the inhabitants, they were met by Joseph Burnett, the town serjeaht, who made known that he.was a peace officer, and should take the man who was. endeavouring to discharge his piece into custody.
The soldier replied, "I’ll shoot you first” and resting his musket on the wheel of a cart, in front of Burnett, declared that if he advanced an inch he would fire.
The officer moved a little to one side, to get out of the direction of the piece, when the villain raised the musket, stepped back few paces, and levelling it at the unfortunate man, instantly fired.
The ball passed through Burnett’s body, and struck another man named Walter Davies, who stood behind him,* near the hip, shattering his back bone; - both instantly fell.
The spectators immediately endeavoured to secure the miscreants, who made all the resistance in their power; fortunately the man whose musket was not discharged, was seized before he could fire; the other kept the people at bay with his bayonet for some time, but was length secured without further mischief.
Burnett expired in about half an hour after he was shot; Davies languished until Wednesday, when also died.
Both have left families; the former nine and the latter five children.
A Coroner’s Inquest was held on the body of Burnett on Monday, and returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against John Sims and Richard Rogers, who were conducted to Bodmin Gaol.
Stamford Mercury - Friday 2 September 1814
John Sims and Richard Rogers were Monday se'nnight committed to Bodmin gaol, for the murder of Joseph Burnett and Walter Davies.
Royal Cornwall Gazette - Saturday 22 April 1815
CORNWALL ASSIZES
CROWN BAR
Before the Honourable Sir ROBERT GRAHAM, Knt., one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench.
Wednesday, March 29. John Simms, aged 30, and Richard Rogers, 26, were charged with the wilful murder of Joseph Burnett.
William Hicks sworn and examined—
Lives at Lostwithiel; was a constable in August last; recollected seeing the two prisoners in the town; they came to his house between 1 and 2 o'clock and enquired for a cart to forward some drunken men; said they belonged to the 28th regiment of foot; a part of that regiment had passed through Lostwithiel in the morning. Witness told the prisoners they could have no cart, they having no right to one, and asked why they did not go on with their own baggage cart; they made no reply; he then enquired who would pay, they said, the Government; he told them as old soldiers they ought to know better, their own officers were bound to pay for baggage carts; Simms said he was not drunk, did not want a cart for himself, and would not be seen to ride on one; they then left the house of the witness, and he went in and shut the door; his house is near the middle of Market-street. In 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour the prisoners returned to his house, and again required a cart to carry the drunken men to Liskeard; he told them they had no right to a cart but if they would pay he would get one; Simms asked the price; witness told him 12 shillings; He said to Rogers, " Pay the man for the cart;" Rogers then said "Bring the cart here;" Witness said, "Let me see the money, and I will;" on which Rogers turned and said "I'll be d—d if I do," and walked off, and witness returned into his house. Simms appeared sober, and Rogers drunk.
James Netherton lives at Lostwithiel; remembered the prisoners at the bar; saw them in Market street, in August last; saw them speak to Mr. Hicks at his door; they made an application to him for a cart; witness was sitting in his own window opposite; after the conversation, Hicks went in and shut the door, and the prisoners went away ; saw them return together to Hicks's house, where they enquired for a cart, as before, and Hicks agreed to get one if they would pay for it; they refused at first, but afterwards agreed to pay for it by making application to another man at the bottom of the town; Rogers went away, and Simms went to the steps of Miss Spernon's house, at a little distance on the same side of the way; witness heard Simms say, with many oaths, that he would have the blood of some person before he left the town; he had a musket in his hand; he fixed the bayonet, and brought it down to the charge; as soon as Rogers was within hearing, Simms hailed him, and requested him to load his gun; Rogers had his piece; Simms desired him to load, saying that "some of the Cornish a—s were going to murder him;" there were many people, chiefly boys and young persons, round Miss Spernon's door; they said nothing to the pri-soners, nor offered them any insult or affront; Rogers attempted to unbutton his pouch to load, but was unable, being so intoxicated. Simms then bade him come to him, and he would assist him; Rogers went up to him, and Simms unbuttoned his pouch and took out a parcel of cartridges, he untied the parcel, took out one, and gave it to Rogers, who bit off the end and primed his piece, and returned the remainder (with Simms' assistance) into his gun; Simms then requested Rogers to ram it down well; he did so, fixed his bayonet, went a few yards down the street, presented his piece, and levelled right down the street; there were many persons in the direction in which he presented it; he cocked his piece and snapped it, when it flashed in the pan; Simms said that Rogers's was a poor gun, and he would load his own, but witness did not see him do it; they then went together down the centre of the street, but witness remained at the head of the street; the prisoners were nearly close together, and some persons were standing at a small distance from them. The witness knew Mr. Joseph Burnett, he was serjeant at mace of the borough of Lostwithiel, and lived in Fore street; witness could see his house from the place where he was standing; he saw Burnett come out of his house, having on the laced hat usually worn by the town-serjeant. The prisoners had not reached the turning at die bottom of the street, when Rogers turned and snapped his gun again, in the direction in which Barnett was going; there was no footpath in the street. Witness saw a man of the name of Davey tap Rogers on the shoulder; prisoners then went down the street together with Burnett and Davey, and passing the corner were lost to the view of the witness; he followed them, and was at the corner just at the report of the gun; he ran to the turning, and saw the smoke of Simms's gun; the arms were then taken from the prisoners, and the loaded musket, belonging to Rogers, was given to the witness; he examined the gun and drew the load, with some assistance; it contained a ball-cartridge; after the prisoners were put into the hall, witness saw Burnett in Mr. Reed's house, where he lay in the parlour, bleeding; witness continued in the room with him; he lived about three quarters of an hour after being shot. Witness knew nothing of what passed after the prisoners turned the corner.
James Dewan lives at Lostwithiel; is in the Local Militia, his mother keeps a public house in Fore Street; he saw the prisoners in August last; he saw Simms ramming something down into his piece; the prisoners afterwards came to his mother's door; Burnett was there; Simms then put his ramrod in his piece; witness they saw the piece was loaded; Burnett said in the hearing of Simms, he did not think it was loaded, and Simms then put his ramrod into his piece again, and witness said he was sure it was loaded; and he desired Simms to come inside the door and let him draw the charge, that he (Simms) was an old soldier, and ought to know better; Simms instantly came to a charge at the witness and said he would rather put that into him; the bayonet was fixed, and witness put up his hand, and put it aside; Simms then threw his piece to his shoulder, and the prisoners both went away down the street, they stopped at about 50 or 60 yards; no person followed them at that instant; witness observed the prisoners come to a priming position, one faced up the street and the other down, their locks coming nearly abreast of each other, Simms put his hand to Rogers's lock, and then walked off down the street; witness had observed Rogers's lock before, and saw that the pan was too full of powder to shut close; the prisoners went down the street together, and Davey followed them; witness and Burnett went down about five minutes afterwards; Burnett called at the constable's house; Mr, Rowe's, and witness went to a public house kept by George Reed, in an open place near the Fore street; the prisoners were there, and Burnett afterwards came there; witness was close to the prisoners, when Simms turned and asked him what business he had there; he said he was going in to Mr. Reed's; when Burnett came up, he said he was the town-serjeant, and desired him to go into Reed's and give up their arms to him; Simms repeated that he would kill the first man who came to take his arms, he then went back a few paces, and rested his piece on the wheel of a cart, and took a level on the wheel; witness then turned to Burnett, and desired him to come away, for the prisoners would shoot some person; witness then went into Reed's passage, and had not been there two seconds when he heard the report of the piece; he turned round and saw Burnett turning round towards the door; witness observed a hole in the breast of Burnett's waistcoat. There were many persons in the street, but witness saw only one man follow the prisoners before himself; no person offered any insult to the prisoners.
Nicholas Pomeroy, corroborated much of the testimony of the preceding witnesses, and added that he saw one of the prisoners rest his piece against a wall, and attempt to strike a man called Walter Davey; witness followed the prisoners round the corner, towards George Reed's house; heard Burnett say "I require the peace; come in here, and deliver your arms to me;" Simms said "he would be d—d if he did not shoot him first;" witness saw him, after resting his musket on the wheel of a cart, take it up and present it at Joseph Burnett who might be 10 or 20 feet distant ; Rogers was a few yards distant from Simms, nearer to Reed's house; Simms fired, and Burnett put his arms around him, and turned into the house.
George Wills, Walter Lucas, and George Reed corroborated much of the preceding evidence, and all saw the piece fired by Simms.
Mr. Burgess, surgeon at Lostwithiel was called in to see Joseph Burnett about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st of August; Burnett was then at George Reed's house, witness found him bleeding very much, and on examining him he discovered a wound, apparently made by a bullet, which had entered at the lower part of the breast-bone, passed through the right lobe of the lungs, and came out at the right side, about 5 or 6 inches from the spine which was undoubtedly the cause of his death; the deceased was removed to his own house, and died in about three quarters of an hour after the witness saw him.
The prisoners then being called on, said that they ,"stood in their own defence, as it was wanted to take their arms from them." They called no witness.
The Jury found John Simms guilty, and Richard Rogers not guilty, the latter burst into tears when the verdict was returned; but Simms appeared unconcerned.
The Judge then addressed the prisoner Simms in the following words:
"John Simms, you have been convicted bv evidence the most clear and precise, of a very heinous crime, the crime of taking away the life of one of your fellow subjects, whose blood calls loudly for retaliation, and who, in the capacity of a Peace Officer was using his utmost endeavours to prevent you from committing that mischief which you by your intoxication and temporary insanity at that time was capable of doing; and while I proceed to my duty in passing the awful sentence of the law upon you, I cannot help regretting your unprepared state for it. The victim of your violence, Burnett, was, as the evidence have stated, a man who was doing and doing no more than his duty as a preserver of the public peace; and however reluctantly you as a soldier might permit your arms to be taken from you, yet the circumstance of your intoxication is no extenuation of your guilt; it is therefore my duty, my painful duly, to pronounce the sentence of (he Law upon you, which you have drawn down upon your own head ; a Sentence which, though it be both awful and severe, yet I fear you are very unprepared to meet, I therefore most earnestly hope that the short period of time which you have now remaining, you will employ in making your peace with that God whom you have so grievously offended. The Sentence of the Law therefore is, that you be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence, on Friday next, you be brought to the place of Execution, where you he hanged by the neck till you be dead, and that your body he given to be dissected and anatomized; and may God have mercy upon your Soul!"
The Execution
John Simms was hanged for the murder of John Burnett on 31 April 1815 at Bodmin Gaol.
While I was originally hoping to see the John D Leitch arrive, orders changed and the Algoma Compass took over the Leitch’s run instead. While not as exciting, it was still my first time seeing the compass from more then 5 miles away. Algoma Compass was arriving on New Year’s Day to load the last cargo of coal at SMET for the season.
013117: Washington, DC - Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly participated in a media availability alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan, and Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Acting Under Secretary David Glawe to discuss the operational implementation of the president’s executive orders. Speaking is CBP Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan.
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Captain Aurixx. Commanding Officer of the MANTIS cruiser Shadowfall.
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President Jacob Zuma addresses guests at the start of the National Orders Awards ceremony at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria. (Photo: GCIS)
Portland
The fine bay of Portland and nearby Cape Bridgewater were indirectly named by Captain Grant in 1800 on the Brig named Lady Nelson. Grant explored this part of the coast a year or so before Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin. James Grant was receiving his orders from the Duke of Portland and so Governor King in Sydney named the bay Portland after looking at Grant’s maps. Nicholas Baudin, the French explorer also named the area and called it Terra Bonaparte. After Major Thomas Mitchell’s explorations in 1836 his Australia Felix region became known as the Western Districts (of NSW). From 1803 some American whalers established summer whaling camps along Portland Bay but there was no permanent white settlement until Edward Henty arrived here from Launceston in November 1834. His brother Francis arrived to settle in December 1834. Thus began the white settlement of Victoria almost a year before Fawkner and Batman settled on Port Phillip Bay. (John Fawkner and John Batman also moved from Launceston because of the land shortages there with Fawkner settling in August 1835 near Hobson’s Bay and Batman in June 1835 near the Yarra although he personally did not settle until April 1836.)
Edward Henty landed with 13 cattle, 4 bullocks, 5 pigs, 2 turkeys, vines, plants, seeds, and apple and pear trees. Francis arrived with dairy cows and Merino sheep a month later. In 1836 Major Mitchell called in to the Henty’s property where Portland now stands. Henty had already explored inland by then and he had discovered Darlots Creek and Lake Condah. Three of Henty’s pastoral runs were near the later town of Merino. The Hentys also earnt income from whaling but Edward did not even begin any whaling until 1836. Edward built his first house on what is now Bentinck Street. This was swept away when the town was surveyed in 1840 by Charles Tyers the government surveyor. By this time Edward and Francis had been joined by their other brothers Richard and John. It was a Henty son (Richard) who was the first white male born in Victoria and Edward Henty was the first to move inland in Victoria when he moved to near Merino in 1837. But many now assert that the first white settlement (not permanent or farming or pastoral settlement) in Victoria was by William Dutton with his fishery (sealing) and whaling station near Portland in 1833. Dutton had camped here in a temporary house for summer months since 1828. He also had whaling camps on Kangaroo Island. He did not spend all the year at Portland but his whaling camp was a permanent structure. Dutton also had early whaling camps at Port Fairy. When Edward Henty arrived in November 1834 Dutton was already there and assisted Henty to get established. But does this Dutton claim really detract from Edward Henty’s claim to be the first permanent white settler on the land in Victoria?
The Henty brothers had illegally squatted on land and despite having 60 acres under crop, sheep grazing at Merino, two houses in both Portland and at Merino and 53 whites living on the land (46 males including employees and 7 females) Governor Gipps of Sydney was not impressed. The Henty brothers claimed compensation for their development of the land and a grant of some of the land. Thus began many years of legal battles between the government and the Henty brothers. Gipps decided to send Police to Portland to remove Henty from the land but this never happened. In 1843 the government softened and gave a grant of 83 acres at £2 per acre; town acres at £100 per acre; and compensation of £118 for their buildings, including the house which was destroyed to create Bentinck Street. The Henty brothers declined this offer and the dispute continued. Eventually the Henty brothers got legal leases and they purchased freehold land. Merino Downs station is still in the hands of Henty descendants.
Government land in Portland was sold in 1840 with 70 town blocks being purchased immediately and many surrounding “suburban” blocks. Pastoral leases for inland areas were authorised from 1839. By 1842 the town had a temporary Presbyterian, Anglican and Wesleyan Methodist churches, a cemetery, a newspaper, a school house, hotels ( the Commercial Inn, the Portland Hotel, the Portland Inn and the Steam Packet Inn), a jetty and commercial enterprises. Customs duties were levied on the port trade. The main street along the foreshore Bentinck Street was named after the family name of the Dukes of Portland. The Customs House was completed in 1850; the Court House was built 1845; the Catholic Church 1848; the Presbyterian Church 1849; the Botanical Gardens began 1854; the Anglican Church 1856; a tramway to Heywood opened 1860; the Town Hall opened 1865 and a new Wesleyan Church opened 1865. In terms of population Portland grew quickly with around 1,200 residents in 1851 and around 3,000 by 1854. Today Portland has 10,700 residents.
As the major regional port railway lines from the interior were especially important to Portland. The tramway to Heywood opened in 1860 but soon became a railway line. The Portland Railway Company was formed in the town in 1872 and they raised funds for a railway to Hamilton and another to Coleraine. The company folded one year later. But the government built a railway line to Hamilton in 1878 and in 1889 they proposed a railway to the Wimmera - Horsham and Mildura. The first section of the railway from Hamilton to Horsham opened in 1911 to Cavendish and the line only got to Horsham in 1920! Meantime a rail link to Mt Gambier across the border was demanded by the residents of both Portland and Mt Gambier. The SA government opposed the idea and resisted for many years. The rail line was first suggested in 1900 and the Victorian government did a survey for the line in 1901. But it was 1912 before the two states agreed on rail lines crossing the border at Mt Gambier and at Pinnaroo. Work started on the line from Heywood to Mt Gambier in 1914. The line finally opened in October 1917.
Princeland.
Links between Mt Gambier and Portland had always existed. Captain Grant had charted both areas as had Flinders and Baudin. In 1839 Edward Henty tried to establish a sheep run at Mt Gambier but the SA government ordered Henty off the land. They then allowed Evelyn Sturt to become the first landowner near Mt Gambier. Many pastoral runs near the border crossed the border. Robertsons of Struan had land both sides of the border as did the Austens of Penola. In 1862 in response to perceived financial neglect of the Mt Gambier region by the SA government, and the desire for separation from Melbourne in Victoria, the Princeland movement emerged. Edward Henty was behind the formation of the West Victorian Separation league to create a new colony with the capital in Mt Gambier and the main port at Portland. The colony was to be named after Prince Albert (Princeland) and a petition was sent to the Colonial Office and to Queen Victoria. 1,500 signatures were collected but the proposal required the agreement of two states so it languished in London. The movement started with a report in the Portland newspaper on 2 January 1862 followed by another in the Advertiser on 4 January 1862. The new province would have 24 million acres from Victoria and 4 million from SA with a population of 74,000 and an annual revenue income of £330,000. The Geelong newspaper supported the movement but jealousy of Portland was reported as the cause of opposition to the proposal from the residents of Port Fairy. People in Portland argued that of the £300,000 paid in tax and revenue to the government in Melbourne only £100,000 was ever spent in the region and of £36,000 raised in Mt Gambier only £16,000 was ever spent there. Public meetings were held in towns from Penshurst to Penola with Mr R Horne arguing for the proposal and soliciting signatures for the petition. The SA government to give an additional member of parliament to the Mt Gambier district and proposed the upgrading of roads and the building of a courthouse, police station and Post Office in Port MacDonnell and elsewhere. The Border Watch newspaper in Mt Gambier opposed the idea of Princeland but suggested the colonies ought to have a federal parliament and a union a bit like the American Union which was at that time fighting a Civil War over secession! The SA parliament passed a motion opposing secession of Mt Gambier in May 1862. By October English newspapers were reporting no widespread support of the secession movement in SA and Vic and so it was unlikely that Westminster and the Queen would consider a petition which was not widely supported by the local people or the state governments. Thus the Princeland secession movement died in October 1862 but the term was used in the region for the next twenty years.
Now "Ordering sweets on the web" is trend here in Japan as we can order fancy cakes without going all the way to Kyoto from Tokyo!
Some shops are doing really good and we even have "ranking page" to know what to buy :D
So, here I tried one to start. "Uji-Maccha-Rolled-Cake" made of Green tea.
It actually tasted good and now I became one of those excited sweet funs!
The launching of one of the TL Class, 66ft Trawlers for the US Army [Possibly TL43], at Ryan's shipyards, Browns Creek, Taree NSW 1944. It appears most likely that this was on 6th July 1944 (The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer 14 July 1944) .
WWII Construction of Vessels in Australia
A program for Australian construction was set up to supply craft for the U.S. Army, Australian Army & the Royal Navy, through the Australian Shipbuilding Board who distributed the orders to the various shipyards.
W. Ryan & Sons of Taree and E. Wright from Tuncurry were just two of the many shipyards contracted to undertake the orders for the various classes of vessels.
Boats built by W. Ryan & Sons were fully completed and tested, where as Ernest Wright's shipyard at Tuncurry only supplied the hulls, which were then towed to Sydney or Newcastle for completion.
45ft Wooden Towboat (US WT Class and Aust. Army AT Class)
Details:
Length : 45ft
Breadth : 16ft
Depth : 6ft 6ins (Below water line)
66ft Seine Trawler (US TL Class and Royal Navy MFV Class)
Details :
Length ; 66ft
Breadth :17ft 6ins
Depth : 6ft 6ins
The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Tuesday 13th February 1945, page 4.
In a trial of several hours on the Manning River recently, one of the tugboats built here by Messrs W. Ryan and Sons attained a speed of about eight knots.
Two of the craft have been completed and there are three others of the class to be built. They are for towage work in the north and are 45 feet length, 16 feet beam, and 6 feet 6 inches depth below the water.
Three of another class have also been ordered. They are to be 66ft long, 17ft 6ins beam, and 6ft 6ins draught. Those vessels are for two classes of trawling work - harbour and deep sea. The latter will be fitted with refrigerators. All the craft have special attention paid to ventilation.
Local hardwood has been used for the tugboats, but for the larger craft (the trawlers) Oregon planks have been supplied.
The Government supplies all the materials, which has to be worked into the ships by Messrs Ryan and Sons.
Mr J. W. Ellis (who is in charge of the engineering department of the contractors) was seen at work on the engines, He described them as "a beautiful job, the latest model of their kind".
Descending to details it was ascertained that they were Cummins Diesels of six cylinders and a rated horsepower of 127. In addition to driving the propeller they are coupled through a clutch to a salvage pump which has three functions.
First of all it is able to pump water out of the tug. Then, manipulation of a lever it can be made to pump water into the small craft or, through a hose, to a vessel alongside for the purpose of extinguishing a fire. The pipes for those purposes occupy one corner of the engine room, which is compact and provides sufficient space to move carefully at sea. At the end is a workbench in case small repairs are necessary at sea, and there is a complete equipment of tools.
Fuel tanks are placed along each side of the engine room and have a system of equalising the quantity in each.
At the fore end is the daily service tank into which the crude oil for direct conveyance to the engine is pumped every day.
It has a system for cleansing the oil of all impurities. There is only one fuel pump for the six cylinders and it distributes the oil to each in turn. In three pressure stages it goes through a cooling system. Sea water is used in that, but under a special process it is kept from contact with the cylinders.
The system is one of heat exchanges. That is one of the latest innovations . The engine has an auxiliary Kohler lighting set of 32 volts. Electric starting is provided.
The whole of the work of installation was done at the North Coast Steam Navigation's Company's Wharf, Taree.
The United States' officials who took over the craft described it as the best ever turned out for them. Owing to the shortage of labour, unskilled men had to be employed everywhere practicable, and it is a credit to them and their supervisors that they built such a fine towboat.
The contractors are Messrs W. Ryan and Sons, Mr Ryan is in charge of the shipbuilding, Mr Haden acted for the contractors for metal work, all of which was done in Taree.
Mr P. Ryan and his father have charge at the shipyard and Mr F. Blight is foreman carpenter. Mr A. Butterworth, of Wingham, did the electric installation and was highly complimented on the job.
End of Construction in Australia
By August 1944 a total of 2,712 craft had been received from Australian construction. Orders for most types of craft had been completed, and only 499 units originally ordered, 2,300 had been cancelled.
It is still uncertain to the exact number of vessels that were completed by Ryan & Sons Shipyard, and how many orders were cancelled. (A figure of 16 boats over two years, has been documented.)
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Built under orders by Kitchener to supply the British Army in the war against the Mahdi in the late 19th century, when I visited the area between Wadi Haifa and Station 10 (where the Sudanese railroad branches), the railroad was disused. An employee, proud in his uniform, told me that trains would start again the next day. Given how many of the tracks were still covered by sand, I was not optimistic: however, the railroad did start again (months rather than hours later) in 2013.
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