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Would it be better to qualify this paragraph with something like 'A local legend links the murderers of Becket to the church' ? The Sudely mention [ Lord Sudeley, 'Becket's Murderer William de Tracy', in Lord Sudely (ed.),The Sudeleys - Lords of Toddington ( 1987), p.82 ] references de la Pryme and his visit to the village on 29 May 1697 where the antiquarian claims to have seen a Latin inscription on a great stone in the wall of the chancel [The Diary of...p.138]. Confusingly, de la Pryme two years later, in 1699, writes to the Dean of York that he has 'received the following inscription' which he takes 'to be very observable'.[p.203] The implication is, perhaps, that he never actually saw the Latin lines and is referring to something which was a tradition even then. I have a memory that the chancel was thought to have collapsed in the 1640s... Anyway, not enough surely to claim that the murderers 'took refuge here and, as a penance, did much to restore this building'. -- Semutfu ( talk) 13:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
“ | There is a pretty good church there, but no epitaphs or monuments in it at present visible, because that the Chancel being fallen has buried all. However, these words are written on a great stone in the wall of the said Chancel, now almost illegible: Richardus . . . etc.) | ” |
“ | Richardus Brito nec non Menonius Hugo Guilmus Traci Reginaldus filinus Ursi Thomam Martyricum subire facare primatum |
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There is no doubt that in the little time that he was in north Lincolnshire, he travelled extensively; indeed on that Saturday 29 May, he went first to Normanby, Burton Stather, on to Alkborough, Whitton and West Halton before returning home. At West Halton he talks about the inscriptions on the bells lying buried in the ruins of that church, and he leaves spaces in his diary for the lettering to be inserted; the spaces remain …. I take it that someone had agreed to supply the wording, but did not do so. (Diary of...p.140) He tells a story about Wrawby churchyard, but it is by no means clear from the narrative that he ever visited the place, although it only few miles from his lodgings at Broughton. (p.62). The tale is related however, as though he had been there. I think what I am saying is that he rushes about the neighbourhood like a schoolboy collecting locomotive numbers (although he is 26 and not long out of college) rather than a solemn antiquary like the later, estimable, William Stukeley. De la Pryme’s descriptions are enthusiastic and hasty, rather than thoughtful. Indeed he says: ‘My zeal for old MSS., antiquitys, coins and monuments, almost eats me up, so that I am some times almost melancholy that I cannot prosecute ye search of them so much as I would…’ (p.203) In the case of the elusive Alborough stone he wrote to the Dean of York: ‘I received, a while ago, ye following inscription (which I take to be very observable), from of a great stone in ye ruins of ye chancel of ye church of Alkburrow…’ (ibid) I think this means that (despite what he writes in the main body of his diary) he did not see a stone in the ruins of Alkborough chancel, but instead, received later a note of the supposed wording from, perhaps, Rev Turpin. ‘Observable’, in his day meant that is was ‘worthy of note’, or ‘remarkable’, and not just that it was visible to the eye... (For example: S. Pepys Diary 25 July 1667 VIII. P.352 ‘Hogg is..the most observable embezzler, that ever was known.’)
If I had ever thought about Jerusalem Cottages on College Close at all, I suppose I would have guessed they were on the site of a long gone Alms House or Bede House. Second guess: something to do with land once owned by the Knights Hospitallers !!?
A. P. Stanley does indeed mention another tradition associated with the murderers, this time their burial place at Mechlin, modern day Mechelen in Belgium (A P.Stanley, Historical memorials of Canterbury…(1868), pp.105-6 ), but he does refer to it as a legend. The similarity with the supposed Alkborough stone surely rests solely with the Latinised names… and the inscription, Stanley tells us predictably, is ‘now destroyed’. No point then in going, by Eurostar, to Brussels to check this one.
I think that if we are going to claim Becket’s murderers as good history, rather than an agreeable local legend, we are going to have to rely on Alison producing the stone! -- Semutfu ( talk) 16:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
If the story needs mentioning at all, why not ?:
J. Goulton Constable wrote over twenty times to the journal Notes & Queries on a variety of antiquarian topics, but did not mention Becket, or any stone. No, do not believe I have had the pleasure of meeting you. -- Semutfu ( talk) 06:26, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
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Perhaps a slightly better translation of the dodgy Latin might be:
In general, just feel that it is better not to perpetuate legends, even if village residents do consider them true and are proud of them ! Feel the same about the Templars at Julian's Bower and battles on the Flatts, etc ... Not a village resident, merely a poor student of history with an interest in north-west Lindsey. -- Semutfu ( talk) 15:50, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Civil Wars – there seems enough documentary evidence in contemporary broadsheets and Calendars of State Papers, to confirm that there was indeed a skirmish on 18 Dec 1643 after which the parliamentarians, Meldrum and Fairfax, went south to capture Gainsborough two days later. However, all the evidence that I have seen is concerned with Burton u Stather, and Alkboro’ does not get a mention! A fort is referred to (and ‘four great pieces of Ordnance’) and it is tempting to think that this fort is the one, that certainly did exist, on the Flatts and was subsequently mapped. What if the captured fort was at the Stather however and the Flatts fort was built afterwards, to keep the Trent and the Isle of Axholme from changing hands again? Alkborough, I think, only starts being mentioned as part of the story in October 1881, when Goulton Constable delivers his famous lecture ‘Alk in very early times’ and, I suppose to entertain his audience in the school room, tells the story vividly, as though he had been an eye witness and has Sir John Meldrum climbing Alkborough Hill and clearing the village of royalists while Rev Hebblethwaite and Peter Chafer watch from their doors! Goulton Constable mentions skeletons being found’ at my end of the church walk’, and ‘14 prisoners’ and ‘nameless corpses’…I fear he had transposed events from Burton to enliven an autumn evening lecture. The story of Alkborogh in the Civil Wars gets better as the years go by, and last Sept on a visit, I was told that Cavaliers were buried in Alkborough church ‘in their cloaks’….-- Semutfu ( talk) 14:16, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Didn't a rail line used to pass through the town? It connected to the rail line down at Fixborough, and ended(?) at Whitton off to the north.. -- 208.65.188.23 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 04:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC).
At end 2010:
Please could someone look at doing articles for:
Sammy_r ( talk) 13:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
How do we stand legally / copywright-wise about putting old photos on Wikimedia? It'd be great to get them on the Alkborough page.
Sammy_r ( talk) 13:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
The lat/long coordinates were located some way out of the village. I updated them, but the Wikipedia tag on Google Earth is still showing at the original location. Anyone know how to get it moved? Sammy_r ( talk) 09:56, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I added a note about the two pianos kept in the church by the Goldstone and Clemmow piano duo, who lived locally. This, and the use of the church for recordings is well documented, but Anthony Goldstone died a couple of years ago, and I have no idea if the pianos are still there. This makes the tense of "were kept in" difficult -- someone with local knowledge might be able to tidy it up. Imaginatorium ( talk) 06:14, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
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Would it be better to qualify this paragraph with something like 'A local legend links the murderers of Becket to the church' ? The Sudely mention [ Lord Sudeley, 'Becket's Murderer William de Tracy', in Lord Sudely (ed.),The Sudeleys - Lords of Toddington ( 1987), p.82 ] references de la Pryme and his visit to the village on 29 May 1697 where the antiquarian claims to have seen a Latin inscription on a great stone in the wall of the chancel [The Diary of...p.138]. Confusingly, de la Pryme two years later, in 1699, writes to the Dean of York that he has 'received the following inscription' which he takes 'to be very observable'.[p.203] The implication is, perhaps, that he never actually saw the Latin lines and is referring to something which was a tradition even then. I have a memory that the chancel was thought to have collapsed in the 1640s... Anyway, not enough surely to claim that the murderers 'took refuge here and, as a penance, did much to restore this building'. -- Semutfu ( talk) 13:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
“ | There is a pretty good church there, but no epitaphs or monuments in it at present visible, because that the Chancel being fallen has buried all. However, these words are written on a great stone in the wall of the said Chancel, now almost illegible: Richardus . . . etc.) | ” |
“ | Richardus Brito nec non Menonius Hugo Guilmus Traci Reginaldus filinus Ursi Thomam Martyricum subire facare primatum |
” |
There is no doubt that in the little time that he was in north Lincolnshire, he travelled extensively; indeed on that Saturday 29 May, he went first to Normanby, Burton Stather, on to Alkborough, Whitton and West Halton before returning home. At West Halton he talks about the inscriptions on the bells lying buried in the ruins of that church, and he leaves spaces in his diary for the lettering to be inserted; the spaces remain …. I take it that someone had agreed to supply the wording, but did not do so. (Diary of...p.140) He tells a story about Wrawby churchyard, but it is by no means clear from the narrative that he ever visited the place, although it only few miles from his lodgings at Broughton. (p.62). The tale is related however, as though he had been there. I think what I am saying is that he rushes about the neighbourhood like a schoolboy collecting locomotive numbers (although he is 26 and not long out of college) rather than a solemn antiquary like the later, estimable, William Stukeley. De la Pryme’s descriptions are enthusiastic and hasty, rather than thoughtful. Indeed he says: ‘My zeal for old MSS., antiquitys, coins and monuments, almost eats me up, so that I am some times almost melancholy that I cannot prosecute ye search of them so much as I would…’ (p.203) In the case of the elusive Alborough stone he wrote to the Dean of York: ‘I received, a while ago, ye following inscription (which I take to be very observable), from of a great stone in ye ruins of ye chancel of ye church of Alkburrow…’ (ibid) I think this means that (despite what he writes in the main body of his diary) he did not see a stone in the ruins of Alkborough chancel, but instead, received later a note of the supposed wording from, perhaps, Rev Turpin. ‘Observable’, in his day meant that is was ‘worthy of note’, or ‘remarkable’, and not just that it was visible to the eye... (For example: S. Pepys Diary 25 July 1667 VIII. P.352 ‘Hogg is..the most observable embezzler, that ever was known.’)
If I had ever thought about Jerusalem Cottages on College Close at all, I suppose I would have guessed they were on the site of a long gone Alms House or Bede House. Second guess: something to do with land once owned by the Knights Hospitallers !!?
A. P. Stanley does indeed mention another tradition associated with the murderers, this time their burial place at Mechlin, modern day Mechelen in Belgium (A P.Stanley, Historical memorials of Canterbury…(1868), pp.105-6 ), but he does refer to it as a legend. The similarity with the supposed Alkborough stone surely rests solely with the Latinised names… and the inscription, Stanley tells us predictably, is ‘now destroyed’. No point then in going, by Eurostar, to Brussels to check this one.
I think that if we are going to claim Becket’s murderers as good history, rather than an agreeable local legend, we are going to have to rely on Alison producing the stone! -- Semutfu ( talk) 16:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
If the story needs mentioning at all, why not ?:
J. Goulton Constable wrote over twenty times to the journal Notes & Queries on a variety of antiquarian topics, but did not mention Becket, or any stone. No, do not believe I have had the pleasure of meeting you. -- Semutfu ( talk) 06:26, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
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Perhaps a slightly better translation of the dodgy Latin might be:
In general, just feel that it is better not to perpetuate legends, even if village residents do consider them true and are proud of them ! Feel the same about the Templars at Julian's Bower and battles on the Flatts, etc ... Not a village resident, merely a poor student of history with an interest in north-west Lindsey. -- Semutfu ( talk) 15:50, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Civil Wars – there seems enough documentary evidence in contemporary broadsheets and Calendars of State Papers, to confirm that there was indeed a skirmish on 18 Dec 1643 after which the parliamentarians, Meldrum and Fairfax, went south to capture Gainsborough two days later. However, all the evidence that I have seen is concerned with Burton u Stather, and Alkboro’ does not get a mention! A fort is referred to (and ‘four great pieces of Ordnance’) and it is tempting to think that this fort is the one, that certainly did exist, on the Flatts and was subsequently mapped. What if the captured fort was at the Stather however and the Flatts fort was built afterwards, to keep the Trent and the Isle of Axholme from changing hands again? Alkborough, I think, only starts being mentioned as part of the story in October 1881, when Goulton Constable delivers his famous lecture ‘Alk in very early times’ and, I suppose to entertain his audience in the school room, tells the story vividly, as though he had been an eye witness and has Sir John Meldrum climbing Alkborough Hill and clearing the village of royalists while Rev Hebblethwaite and Peter Chafer watch from their doors! Goulton Constable mentions skeletons being found’ at my end of the church walk’, and ‘14 prisoners’ and ‘nameless corpses’…I fear he had transposed events from Burton to enliven an autumn evening lecture. The story of Alkborogh in the Civil Wars gets better as the years go by, and last Sept on a visit, I was told that Cavaliers were buried in Alkborough church ‘in their cloaks’….-- Semutfu ( talk) 14:16, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Didn't a rail line used to pass through the town? It connected to the rail line down at Fixborough, and ended(?) at Whitton off to the north.. -- 208.65.188.23 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 04:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC).
At end 2010:
Please could someone look at doing articles for:
Sammy_r ( talk) 13:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
How do we stand legally / copywright-wise about putting old photos on Wikimedia? It'd be great to get them on the Alkborough page.
Sammy_r ( talk) 13:43, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
The lat/long coordinates were located some way out of the village. I updated them, but the Wikipedia tag on Google Earth is still showing at the original location. Anyone know how to get it moved? Sammy_r ( talk) 09:56, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I added a note about the two pianos kept in the church by the Goldstone and Clemmow piano duo, who lived locally. This, and the use of the church for recordings is well documented, but Anthony Goldstone died a couple of years ago, and I have no idea if the pianos are still there. This makes the tense of "were kept in" difficult -- someone with local knowledge might be able to tidy it up. Imaginatorium ( talk) 06:14, 15 June 2019 (UTC)