7.
Maps of the area -
Map for
Gwernyfed, Powys
UK
The map shows Hay-on-Wye,
Whitney-on-Wye, and Rhydspence,
Glasbury,
and Bredwardine.
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode
=&q=gwernyfed&sll=51.805218,-4.367065&sspn
=0.194457,0.466919&ie=UTF8&ll=52.043622,
-3.177795&spn=0.193427,0.466919&z=11
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Map for Tretower Court and Castle
The map shows Abergavenny
and Clydach.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode
=&q=Tretower&sll=51.927754,-3.177795&sspn
=0.193928,0.466919&ie=UTF8&ll=51.886213,
-3.176122&spn=0.194107,0.466919&z=11
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Or visit http://maps.google.com
and search from there.
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Two new maps -
Map including both
Gwernyfed
and Tretower Court and Castle
(Gwernyfed is where the green arrow is - near Velindre)
(Tretower Court and Castle is to the south)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode
=&q=gwernyfed&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn
=31.922255,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=51.975999,
-3.177795&spn=0.193719,0.466919&z=11
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Map including the same area, also including Cirencester, Chepstow, and Tewkesbury.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode
=&q=gwernyfed&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn
=31.922255,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=51.828988,
-2.617493&spn=0.777421,1.867676&z=9
&iwloc=addr
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A third new map.
Map showing same area, with
Stratford-on-Avon.
(down, from the north-east corner of the map)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode
=&q=gwernyfed&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn
=31.922255,59.765625&ie=UTF8&ll=52.005174,
-2.617493&spn=0.774376,1.867676&z=9
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This shows that Stratford-on-Avon, and Tewkesbury, etc.,
are not all that far from the area in Wales
where the stories originated from.
i.e, either William Shakespeare of Stratford, or Francis Bacon,
may, in only a little time, visit the area.
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My own view is that Christopher Marlowe is the author
of Shakespeare -
this blog is not about the question of authorship,
however.
It is intended to give the stories of "Shakespeare's visit to Wales",
whoever Shakespeare may be.
(Kit Marlowe, who maybe did not die in 1593 at Deptford,
may have visited Wales, of course, at any time after this.)
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8.
(quote, excerpts)
The first of them recorded at Bredwardine is Watkin Vaughan,
who wrote a letter to
lord Burghley
from there, 17 Dec. 1584.
His wife was Joan, daughter of Miles ap Harry of Newcourt, in the Golden Valley,
and niece to
Blanch Parry (q.v.), queen Elizabeth's maid of honour.
They had two sons, Harry, heir to Moccas and Bredwardine, and Rowland, heir of Newcourt.
This Rowland was the author of the remarkable book entitled
Most approved and long experienced waterworkes, 1610,
which contains a long epistle to
William Herbert, earl of Pembroke.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Rowland Vaughan of Porthaml. HARRY VAUGHAN'S wife was a grand-daughter of Hugh Lewis of Harpton. Their heir was ROGER VAUGHAN (matriculated at Oxford, 11 May 1604, aged 15), who rebuilt Bredwardine castle, 1639-40.
His son, HARRY VAUGHAN, m. Frances, daughter of Walter Pye, in 1635. After his death, she m. Edward Cornewall, of the Stapleton family, and it was his son who succeeded to Moccas, having purchased Bredwardine for himself.
http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-VAUG-BRO-1350.html
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9.
Falstaff and Sir John Oldcastle - a link to the Whitney-on-Wye area
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On one of the maps of the area
(Gwernyfed and Tretower),
I saw the place-name
Oldcastle.
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Thinking of
Sir John Oldcastle, I looked for him at Wikipedia,
and discovered this -
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(quote, excerpts)
John Oldcastle
Sir John Oldcastle (d. December 14, 1417), English Lollard leader, was
son of Sir Richard Oldcastle of Almeley in northwest Herefordshire and
grandson of another Sir John Oldcastle.
He was prosecuted for heresy against the Church, and escaped from the
Tower of London, after which he allegedly plotted against his old
friend Henry V. He was captured and executed in London, after which he
became a martyr. He is presumed to be the basis of William
Shakespeare's character Falstaff, whose name in earlier versions of
the play was Oldcastle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oldcastle
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Here is a map for
Almeley,
showing how very near it is to
Whitney-on-Wye (and Rhydspence) - !
(Whitney is to the south-west)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=almeley&ie=UTF8
&om=1&ll=52.164219,-2.976007&spn
=0.192904,0.466919&z=11
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=almeley&ie=UTF8
&om=1&ll=52.164219,-2.976007&spn
=0.192904,0.466919&z=11&iwloc=addr
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