#thurley

[fideidefenswhore]

another instance of dissonance that became really apparent in tmatl...when thomas boleyn has the office of lord privy seal, it's a sinecure, hardly mentioned (Monseigneur, more often, i don't actually know where that comes from, tbh...he did have an overbearingly ostentatious title in his early days of parliament-- Thomas Ormond de Rochford Cheval[i]er*, try saying that ten times fast-- but that was before anne's rise, so), when cromwell has the office, it's a signal favour of high esteem and also an anchor of long hours and ceaseless, difficult work.

[boleynqueenes]

"At this rather intimate gathering (intimate enough that the attendance would render the Great Hall hollow…not that there was ever much chance of the King hosting there, the chamber which is visible and accessible from the King and Queen's watching chambers, but here, here said Queen cannot enter without kingly permission), he watches the mingling lead into dance whilst sipping water, the only water safe to drink of this isle, far as he knows (the same, ferried from Rosamund's Spring in Woodstock, for it is certain the King wishes the newly arrived cardinal to believe there is nothing Rome has that excels anything available in England—although of course there is), splashed with just enough cold, crisp ale to flavor."

—Nowe Thus: Chapter 12

[ednyfedfychan]

— Simon Thurley, Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World

[derangedrhythms]

Sergey Yesenin, 20th Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel; from 'The Black Man', tr. Geoffrey Thurley

[glorianas]

The royal lovers were at Greenwich for most of January [1533] but, early in the morning of the 24th, Henry slipped into a specially prepared, and newly matted, barge with Anne and made for Whitehall. They disembarked on the landing stage and walked through the near-completed galleries to the gatehouse where, climbing the spiral staircase, they entered a room that was destined to be the king's private study containing all his most treasured possessions. In this room, overlooking the new palace, the deed was done: Henry and Anne were finally man and wife.

Thurley, Simon, Houses of Power, The Places That Shaped the Tudor World.  

[beardedmrbean]

A police officer has been sacked after repeatedly reporting her former boyfriend for assault – only for detectives to find he did not exist.

Pc Nadia Thurley, 29, made 14 allegations against “fictional” ex-boyfriend, Dan Jones, which led to police wasting “extensive” resources investigating the supposed crimes.

The officer was caught when covert CCTV cameras were installed at her home by police without her knowledge to catch the alleged abuser. The footage revealed that no one had been there on days when she had claimed to have been assaulted.

Pc Thurley’s Chief Constable sacked her on Wednesday, saying he was “saddened” that an officer with first-hand knowledge of victims of such “horrific crimes” would “choose to lie about a violent assault”.

Visible injuries

A disciplinary hearing was told that Pc Thurley, who joined Hampshire & Isle of Wight constabulary in April 2020, was arrested and suspended 16 months after she made several domestic abuse claims which “did not take place”.

Det Insp Simon Clifford said that the complaints began in December 2020, when Pc Thurley appeared at work with “visible injuries” and told colleagues she was assaulted by an ex-partner.

The hearing was told that in March 2021, Pc Thurley said she was approached by Mr Jones in the New Forest, telling police he was “armed with a knife”.

However, Det Insp Clifford said that officers attending noted she did not have any “mud or debris on her clothing despite extremely boggy and muddy conditions”.

In the hopes of catching Mr Jones, an operations team installed covert surveillance cameras in Pc Thurley’s home in Marchwood, near Southampton.

Unaware of the CCTV, Pc Thurley reported two further incidents in July 2021 at her home address, claiming Mr Jones had been there.

Less than a month later, Pc Thurley was arrested and charged with two counts of perverting the course of justice. She was found guilty in November.

Det Insp Clifford told the hearing “fabricating the existence of a boyfriend is dishonest and lacks integrity and disciplinary action is warranted”.

Not a case of mental health

Pc Thurley did not attend the hearing, held at Hampshire Constabulary Operational HQ in Winchester, Hampshire.

She instead sent an email in which she wrote: “The only representation I wish to make is to say that all I have ever done is tell the truth, and follow directions given by my line managers.”

It is understood Pc Thurley, now of Woking, Surrey, had been “unwell” and suffered PTSD from an incident in 2020, whereby she witnessed the stabbing of a fellow officer.

However, Det Insp Clifford said: “It is the [appropriate authorities] case, as it was in the case of the prosecutor at trial, that this is not a case about mental health but one of malingering, or lying.”

Scott Chilton, Chief Constable for Hampshire and Isle of Wight, dismissed Pc Thurley with immediate effect.

He said a “considerable amount of resources” were pulled to investigate the allegations and that “Pc Thurley has done little, if anything at all, to assist in this investigation”.

Chief Constable Chilton added: “I am saddened that a serving police officer, knowing first hand the impact that such horrific crimes have on victims, chose to lie about a violent assault.”

[lizziestudieshistory]

Continuing my unhinged reading life from this year - these are all the books I've bought between 1st January to 5th February... I need to sort out my priorities here because I've been TRYING to reduce my physical tbr! The books are:

The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunett

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Imperium by Robert Harris

The Origins of the English Civil War ed. by Conrad Russell

King James by Pauline Croft (I didn't actually buy this one it was a gift!)

A Court of Thorns and Roses box set by Sarah J. Maas

Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

Palaces of Revolution by Simon Thurley

[holcombe-british-lineage]

Stolen Identity of Knight in Dorchester Abbey

This plaque was "scripset" in 1967 and presented to Dorchester Abbey near Oxford, England by Olwyn M. Bonwick for her father, Oliver Joseph West (1879-1949). It starts in the year 1103 with Symon de Holcombe.   The most famous patriarch, however, is 

            Sir John de Holcombe

the knight for which the Holcombe coat-of-arms is derived.   His wife, Isabel, traces back six generations to King Henry the First (1100-1135) of England.

The plaque shows the British Holcombe line ended with Harry Christopher Holcombe Esq.    Presumably, this was because no sons were left in Britain to continue the name there.   However, in America and Australia, there are many now with the Holcombe family name.  It appears, in America, the Holcombes came from second sons [only the first son inherited land in those days] who moved from Devonshire, England to Pembrokeshire, Wales and then to America.

When I visited Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire, England in 1981, this plaque was displayed in the "Shrine Chapel" on a wall behind the sarcophagus of the KNIGHT drawing his sword - known as the "Swaggering Knight" and an inspiration for the famous British sculptor, Henry Moore.   

The plaque was still there in 1995 from records, but was removed by the staff sometime thereafter due to a controversial document by Phillip J. Lankester ... https://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1987/lankester.pdf  which linked the knight to William de Valence the Younger.   The identification of the knight was questioned after over seven centuries (Sir John de Holcombe died in 1270).   This apparent identity theft was well described by Raymond L. Holcomb here  ... https://holcombfamily.weebly.com/uploads/9/8/7/4/98740834/dorchester_effigy_by_raymond_holcomb_v2_20170714.pdf

I wrote to these folks requesting DNA studies (like is done in Egypt to identify pharoahs from mummies) but no interest in knowing who is actually in the sarcophagus in Dorchester Abbey:

Dr. Simon Thurley, English Heritage simon@kingstaithe.com

Chief.Executive@englishheritage.org.uk

Simon.Mays@HistoricEngland.org.uk    (Human Skeletal Biologist; Historic England)

governance@historicengland.org.uk (Historic England) hschutkowski@bournemouth.ac.uk (Chair, APABE, Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England)  

elizabeth.popescu@oxfordarch.co.uk (Secretary, APABE)

[mementomoriiv]

Liv Thurley - Weapon

[centiasoddboutique]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Thurley Pink Foxtrot Lace Beaded Tassel festive tiered Dress in Flamingo….

[fideidefenswhore]

During Henry's reign there were six principal occasions of estate: his coronation in 1509, the meeting with Francis I at the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520, the visit of Charles V in 1522, the meeting with Francis in Calais in 1532, Anne Boleyn's coronation in 1533 and the reception of Anne of Cleves in 1540. These were very much the exception; most occasions of estate were far less glamorous, such as the creation of peers, reception of ambassadors and the courtly ettiquette of births, deaths, and marriages.

The Royal Palaces of Tudor England, Simon Thurley

[boleynqueenes]

05. THE HIEROPHANT: TRADITION (Do you have any writing traditions you follow or plan to implement?) 

I have a few:

cup(s) of hot tea

snacks! (crackers, peanut butter, chocolate, apple slices, popcorn)

heating blanket and regular blanket/s

comfortable clothes with give/elasticity

neck pillow

compression gloves for typing

over the ear headphones for background rain, 'stormy castle', crackling fire at tavern etc sounds, earbuds with instrumental music and/or wip playlist, so i'm doubled up in immersion

books relevant to setting and worldbuilding nearby (rn, private lives of tudors to dip into when at a loss, & simon thurley's book on whitehall palace, since the scene i'm writing rn is set there)

i like to be washing/drying laundry in background so that i can structure breaks around that

actual notepad with notes, and phones open to notes apps

word document with nothing in background except youtube for the writing sounds backdrop, or folder of inspirational or setting images and relevant book excerpts, sometimes relevant pdfs

large glass(es) of water

i like a table set up by computer desk ideally so i can access whatever whenever i need it

stress ball/roller for hands/wrists

setting timers so i remember to take breaks

at some point i like to do either household chores or preferably, take a walk outdoors with writing playlist to daydream the scenes

[thehauntologicalsociety]

The Breakthrough — A Story by Daphne du Maurier — A Teleplay by Graham Evans and Clive Exton

Dispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?

On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.

There are very audible echoes of Peter Newbrook’s The Asphyx and even Peter Sasdy’s The Stone Tape, scripted by Nigel Kneale in The Breakthrough, though it’s actually based on a Daphne Du Maurier short story that predates both of them. Written in 1964 as a favour to Kingsley Amis who was looking to put together an anthology of science fiction stories that was never published, the short story turned up in Du Maurier’s 1971 collection Not After Midnight, and Other Stories. Graham Evans’ television play, adapted by Clive Exton, is faithful to the story but possibly as a consequence it’s far too leisurely for its own good.

Computer specialist Stephen Saunders (Simon Ward) is sent by a government minister, Sir John Fowler (Anthony Nicholls), to a laboratory, Saxmere, situated on the salt marshes of the East Suffolk Coast, ostensibly to help maintain it’s fantastically clunky and oh-so-70s computer – all oscilloscopes, huge reels of tape and inexplicable banks of flashing lights. It turns out that the Saxmere team, made up of “Mac” Maclean (Brewster Mason), Robbie (Clive Swift), Janus (Roy Boyd), Ken (Thomas Ellice, here credited as Martin C. Thurley) and Cerberus the dog are trying to use the computer to help them capture human psychic energy (or “Force 6” as Mac dubs it) at the very moment of death. The terminally ill Ken is chosen as the test subject and a developmentally challenged young local girl, Niki (Rosalind McCabe), who shows some talent as a medium and seems to have caused poltergeist activity in the past, is drafted in to act as a conduit to him after he dies. The experiment seems to be a success but Niki reports back that Ken wants his life force released and the researchers realise with horror that their process captures more than just psychic energy.

— Kevin Lyons — EOFFTV - The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television

[derangedrhythms]

Sergey Yesenin, 20th Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel; from 'The Black Man', tr. Geoffrey Thurley

[karmenmcgill]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Thurley Australian designer brand Celestial top.