See Posts 6 & 6ca.
Note-; This is the copy of a letter sent to various authorities and so called experts which they have not bothered answering, since it shows them to be .,............................
I have coined a new word which shall eventually enter the Oxford Dictionary, provided you readers begin using and popularising it. I believe it reflects aussie ethos. I invented it sometimes during the five years I spent in the bush counting ants large and small, waiting for the water to drink to fall from the sky and using kerosene lamps to save on fuel. Million of ants large and small! Incredible. Strangely enough these ants, unlike city-ones, were very well mannered and never entered the house. I lived then in a place called by the ancient Aborigenes....Wooman's Breasts.... and I must have built my all-steel house ( for fear of the ants you see ), on top of one of the Woman' Titties ( Mammary Gland ). Damned if I ever found out where the other Tittie was; even dear Watson could not............What?...............Watson is suggesting that perhaps she was a one- tittied-woman.......that maybe a crocodile.............. during one of her tribe's extended forays up North.............had had a go at her and nibbled her............ Global Warming must have had its effects as the place was dry and the soil weird. At every hit of the pick one had to bend and remove a multiplication of the stones as the soil was stone itself. Actually, compressed soil from the Silurian Devonian Stage when life consisted of an oceanic, global, chemicals-oozing soup, a jelly-like mass of uni-cellurar beings, vigorously and anonimously fornicating and multiplying into a frontierless ocean, libidinous, lusty, passionate, all mutually possessing, devouring and emitting, to be in turn so dealt with in a fury of brutally procreating madness. No quarters, no prisoners, no mercy, no respite given to, taken, or asked for ( like Laurence of Arabia in his irish foul moods ), from the loving madness, just pure, spread-eagled, scythian-moded, obsessed, brutal reproducing activities. Hey Watson, ..............keep cool.......What?.......... Too exciting? Well, that is what it must have been like, old chap...........What?...........Yes, you are right, I should write for Playboy magazine..............The result of the accumulation of all this biological multiplication to-day, is the red, densely compacted soil of those areas along the Goulburn River, having almost no fossil detritus visible to the naked eye ( I actually found just one remnant fossil trace, only one during my digging for tree-planting and gold nuggets. It looks like a star or wheel and fits my hand. But it might have been a wee baby ). The dry lands must have been deserted as very little oxigen had accumulated to permit vegetable life. Some form of life not requiring oxigen ( unaeriobic? But there must have been some sort of atmosphere, or air )must have lived then. This scenario must have lasted hundred of millions of years. Go and try tell our fanatical biblical fundamentalists who believe in the No Gap Theory, though!. I believe the human being and its divine destiny, is a stage ( the final aim of Creation) of an evolution planned by the Creator, requiring divine intervention as and when required; that Jesus of Nazareth is the culminating qualitative point in the history of evolution, a spiritual quantum-jump, establishing a higher plateau of human consciousness, preliminary to a further escalation toward the stars ( Terrorists and islamic fundamentalists, including Cosa Nostra permitting ). So Ferrerix speaks from warped-space. the Templars' barbuto humbly concurring, and Dear Watson too! ........What?
The word I invented is.........FUCKUMITES.
I believe it is self-explanatory. However, its use shall establish its range of meanings. I bequeathe it free of charge to posterity. The crusading Knight-Templar shall be gratefull and blesses you all! Breack a lance in his memory since there are little people ( called.......... do I hear the word?) wishing to eradicate his memory and that of decent human beings like him.
May long live the Ferrarii Clan's ( Gens Ferreria/Ferraria) memory in spite of all the little wee, wee, wee............people!
Splendeo Tritus! ( Trodden I shine! ).
The Letter.
4th March 2007
To Whomever may be concerned.
Reference-: Identity of stone effigy of Ferrers-Knight in the Gate-Church of Our Lady of Merevale Abbey.
Dear Madam/Sir or as applicable in the case Titles are concerned,
I visited the Church in June 2004 admitted by the most genteel Rector, the lady Reverend .........., when on a pilgrimage and modest historical research for a book I am writing about the Clan of the de Ferrariis to which the Ferrers belong.
While leafing through The Monumental Effigies of Great Britain compiled by C. A. Stothard, I have become certain that the effigy under discussion represents a Member of the Order of the Knights Templars who had taken vows ( a Crusading Knight ) to fight Infidels in the Holy Land, owing to characteristic symbolic features of the carving of this effigy which were at the times this was made, within the Order of the Templars, the distinction accorded to its crusading members -:
1. The crossed legs.
2. The fact that these are represented in a walking stance.
3. The sword carried on the right hand side.
4. The right-hand-side hand over the heart.
5. When laid in their original position the effigies would be gazing and with their walking-stance oriented toward the East.
Examples of these are shown by five effigies shown at page 1 of the section of the mentioned book devoted to the Knights Templars.
Allow me to quote from page 2 of the same section-:
Stow speaks of " eleven monuments of noblemen in the round of the Church [ in Fleet street, London , built in 1240 A.D. upon the foundations of a pre-existing Church dedicated to the Virgin Mary by Patriarch Eraclius]; eight of them, images of armed knights, five being cross-legged as men vowed to the Holy Land against the infidels and unbelieving Jews; the other three straight-legged; the rest are coaped stones, all of grey marble................
Unquote.
Further on, the carrying of the sword preferentially if unusually on the right- hand side by men destined for service in the Middle East is also related. This practice may have been adopted in order to facilitate the riding of the same horseby two kights in crisis ( Templars always fought as a pair ), to balance the weight of the shields, to remove the long scabbard from the blind side and to place it on the sword-side in order to negate the possibility to an opponent grabbing it, usually from behind, in a melee.
I have found evidence that Geoffrey de Magnaville and Geoffrey de Mandeville are two different characters ( Costain and Dugdale ), the former living in the days of W. Conqueror, and dying of wounds in the days of king Stephen, while the latter
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died after William Ferrers and king Richard I as he fully participated in the struggles for Magna Carta in the times of King John. The two effigies are strikingly similar, the one of Mandeville being a later copy made of the Ferrers' one, the latter's being however superior in the carving of the mantling and exhuding a more stately personality. The information leaflet issued at the Gate-Church, states that the effigy came from Merevale-Abbey's Church, gives the name of an art-critic of the past called Pevsner who praised the sculpture's quality, and mentions the possibility it may be of a William, the fourth Earl of Derby, however, according to my knowledge, the fourth Earl was called Robert, the rebel who joined the wife and four sons of King Henry II ( i.e. Henry, Geoffrey, Richard and John ) in a rebellion against the King that lasted sixteen years. However, Robert's son, called William, the fifth Earl of Derby, joined Richard Lion-Heart in his crusade in the Middle East and died at the siege of Acre in 8 Richard I, ca. 1197 A.D. It appears therefore that if this effigy is of a Ferrers' knight, as it must be since it was originally located in Merevale- Abbey's Church, it must represent with the greatest probability the crusading William Lord Ferrers, the fifth Earl of Derby.
[ Henry II ( reigned ca. 1154-1189 ); Richard I ( reigned ca. 1189-1199 ). ]
I believe that, in spite of all possible uncertainties, my identification is more constructive than the one used at present and should in all justice be adopted, granting me recognition of my discovery.
Further evidence that the Ferrers had ties with the Templars at the time this effigy was carved is evidenced by the Syon Cope ( in the V. & A. Museum ) commemorating the times of Richard I (i.e., Spanish royal Coat of Arms in relation to his wife ) in which the Templars' Arms (i.e. A Paschal Lamb..........) are enbroidered together with those of Lord Robert Ferrers ( 1241-1279), the eighth and last Earl of Derby, the second great rebel in this family, and of other influential families of the Midlands.
Would you care to give me some feedback in relation to these observations? Who in Great Britain would be directly interested in this discovery and what should be done about it? How important is it in view of the fact that no one among the archeologists and artists interested in monuments and effigies ( i.e., Stothard ) have mentioned the existence or realised the identity of this Knight Templar? I have written to the Rector of the Gate Church of Our Lady at Merevale, but received no answer. She should at least correct the label she places at the side of the effigy. Could not missing parts be replaced by plastic components, while at the same time notifying the visitors of the restoration occurred ? I would also like to receive recognition of my discovery.
I remain, Yours faithfully
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