Latest discoveries ... 3

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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Vaughan of Golden Grove

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To return to the Vaughans,

and "Golden Grove" -

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(quote)

William Vaughan (writer)

Sir William Vaughan (1575 - August 1641) was a Welsh writer and colonial investor.

He was the son of Walter Vaughan (died 1598) and was born at

Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Wales--his father's estate.

He was descended from an ancient prince of Powys.

He was brother to John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery (1572-1634) and General Sir Henry or Harry Vaughan (1587-1659), a well-known Royalist leader in the English Civil War.

William was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and took the degree of Doctor of Laws at Vienna.

In 1616 he bought a grant of land, the southern Avalon Peninsula (from Calvert to Placentia Bay) of the island of Newfoundland, from the London and Bristol Company.

In 1617 he sent Welsh colonists to Renews to establish a permanent colony, which eventually failed. The colonists were ill equipped, without an experienced leader, and had built for themselves mere shacks for shelter for the winter.

By 1619 Vaughan had given up hope of establishing a colony and signed over part of his grant to Henry Cary. Vaughan's brother had convinced him to also to give up a portion of his tract to George Calvert, the area around Ferryland. This area George Calvert had established his Colony of Avalon.

Vaughan did retain the southern portion of his tract determined by a line drawn from Renews to Placentia Bay, an area that included Trepassey. Further attempts at colonizing Trepassey on two occasions had also failed.

Vaughan did visit his colony in 1622, which he called Cambriol, and returned to England in 1625. Vaughan apparently paid another visit to his colony, but his plans for its prosperity were foiled by the severe winters. In 1628 he transferred his interests to the colony of Virginia. He died at his house of Torcoed, Carmarthenshire, in August 1641.

His chief work is The Golden Grove (1600), a general guide to morals, politics and literature, in which the manners of the time are severely criticized, plays being denounced as folly and wickedness. The section in praise of poetry borrows much from earlier writers on the subject.

The Golden Fleece ... transported from Cambriol Colchis, by Orpheus junior (1626) is the most interesting of his other works. A long and fantastic prose allegory, it demonstrates "the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading" through the colonization of Newfoundland.

References

* This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica

Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

External links

* Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
* Text of The Golden Fleece

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vaughan_%28writer %29" Categories: 1575 births 1641 deaths Welsh writers Newfoundland and Labrador writers People from Carmarthenshire Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vaughan_(Welsh_writer_and_coloni...)

First thoughts on the BBC ideas from Powys

First thoughts on the BBC ideas from Powys -

i. Parry

Blanche Parry is the queen's nurse and confidante

. . .

Her aunt married a Whitney and also a Herbert

. . .

In her will she left bequests to the Whitney family,

including to Eleanor Bull (nee Whitney).

. . .

ii. Vaughan

The Vaughans are linked by marriage to the Herberts

(the "incomparable brothers" of the First Folio, also of the Lord Pembroke's Men actors, and Lords of Wilton House, and Powys Castle)

. . .

iii. The Vaughans also linked by marriage to the Whitneys

(Eleanor Bull, Catherine Carey - Queen's great friend and (Admiral) Lord Howard's wife, and Blanche Parry close family link)

. . .

and one (Vaughan) is the author of Golden Grove and seems to know more than you'd think about the Deptford happenings - Eleanor Bull, Kit Marlowe, etc.)

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Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

(excerpt of poem, Gerard Manley Hopkins)

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(quote, excerpts)

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Millar Maclure prints the relevant passage from Vaughan's The Golden Grove (1600) in

Marlowe: the Critical Heritage 1588-1896 (London, 1979), pp. 46-47.

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On the Parrys and the Vaughans, see Mary Delorme,

"A Watery Paradise: Rowland Vaughan and Hereford's 'Golden Vale'," History Today, 39 (July, 1989), 38-43.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muchado/fine/killing.html