Re: VMs: Edward Kelly's dead Catholic bishop...?

[Brett Cotton <xzvxcvczcv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick,

 

this is only tangentially related but ... near Glastonbury is a village called Temple Clouds (interesting name) and 1 mile outside it is the "Bookbarn" a secondhand and antiquarian book place, approx 1.5 million books, I was in there a week ago and one thing that you might be interested in was a copy of Woolley "The Queen's Conjurer" re. John Dee., they are very reasonably priced (also a good place for local/Somerset history),

 

Brett

Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just been going over the details of Edward Kelly's 
> "I-bought-it-in-a-pub-off-the-landlord-for-a-guinea" story: reading up more 
> about 16th Century Somerset, it seems quite clear that most money raised 
> around there got siphoned off to the super-bishopric and monastery at 
> Glastonbury - and so that seems to be pretty much the most likely place any 
> reasonably high-ranking Catholic bishop would have been buried.
>
> Now... if we can date the VMS to not before (say) 1450, and the Dissolution 
> of the Monasteries to 1535-1536, and we're only interested in high-ranking 
> Catholic burials in one graveyard, then surely this gives a pretty narrow 
> window for identifying a list of candidates for this dead bishop?
>
> By examining the known details of the (I guess) 4 or 5 bishops who were 
> buried at Glastonbury during that time, we may find o!
> ut some
>  interesting 
> leads - but has anyone tried to do this already?
>
> Also: I'm currently planning to travel down to Glastonbury next week - is 
> there anywhere/anyone there I should try to look at / talk with about this?
>
> I should also point out that there's a further possibility - that the whole 
> story was constructed as a kind of "semantic cryptogram", as a way of 
> secretly identifying the real source of the manuscript (perhaps a 
> necromancer within the Church?) Just a thought to keep you on your toes. :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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