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Check this one out. Very interesting:
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This map is from the 1500s, can anyone make out what it says for Charing Cross? Chary Nerox is what I see ....
You may have just blown my Charing Cross connection!
Maybe not, if I read it correctly (I'm looking at other versions) the word on the Map would be pronounced "Charing" or close to it. We know the site had the name Cyrringe in the 11th century (from the survey for Westminster, St. Peters) which probably evolved into the later spelling and we also know that the 12 memorials were called Eleanor Crosses, so a map would usually only indicate the location, but the object would have been pronounced "The Charing Cross". IMHO of course.
Does anyone have a map of the twelve stops that were made with the remains? Is it possible that the map of the stops, overlaid of a map of Nova Scotia could indicate Oak Island and New Ross as having the same stops as the Queen's journey to London? Has anybody ever looked into this? Or is this stretching?
Just an fyi, The only Templars arrested in Scotland, were Walter de Clifton and William de Middleton, and the only reason this happened is Edward II of England had just invaded Southern Scotland in 1309 putting Balantrodoch (Scottish headquarters of the order) under English control. During the testimony of these two Knights at Holyrood abbey (also under English control) in December of 1309. they claimed they were the only Templars still in Scotland, and all the others had fled! Fled to where?
Loki
What about the tales of working for Robert the Bruce......?
Could the two arrested have been sworn to secrecy to keep the location of their brothers safe....? Yes.
If they were the only ones......why didn't they flee ?
Sounds more like they sent some lower order knights to do some trade, pick up supplies, or do some messenger work for the Bruce......and got caught. There were others.....
New Gold. Please give a reference for the name Charing Cross dating before the colonization in the 18-19th century. A proper book, preferably. The trouble with the statement "The local native populations say that to them it was always Charing Cross" could easily only refer back a generation or two. Savoy Palace was really much closer than the mile walk down to Charing Cross.
Not at almost a mile they wouldn't! Unless their eyesight was exceptionally good! Not to mention all those proprieties which you can't be bothered checking up. You, Lokiblossom, are the one making the claims. You are supposed to prove them.
On a different tack, since the Templars had been so pro-English occupation and conquest of Scotland (two Masters killed at the Battle of Falkirk), why would the Scots have suddenly welcomed them in?
I gave you a list of properties between Temple Church and Charing Cross, way back in the mists of time. IMHO you are the one in need of sharpening their research skills; I gave you the names, check them out yourself. I assume you won't do that because it disproves your point.
No, I hadn't forgotten the "secret parliament". So secret that most historians don't think it happened. Most agree Bruce's first parliament was held at St Andrews in 1309. There is no contemporary evidence for Bruce meeting any Templar in Ardchattan. How many Scottish brothers do you think there were? I suspect you are overestimating the numbers. The Templar estates in England were more numerous and wealthy than the Scottish estates, which were not helped by a decade of Civil War.
So what language are all these knights speaking?
Always happy to correct you, Lokiblossom. The book contains two maps and a gazateer. I checked the gazateer for properties in existence by 1300. Then cross-referenced to the appropriate volumes of the Survey of London (1900 onwards).
The medieval underground map contains almost no buildings in the City of London itself. Would you seriously use this evidence to suggest the city was an empty space? Talk about straw-clutching!
I was referring to the language of the Templars, not the "secret parliament".
Can you give us the references to the Templar at Ardchattan? And to these assorted legends. It would be useful to see how far back these legends existed.
Still happy to correct you, Loki. Ardchattan is a Valliscaulian house.
Which Knights Templar sat in which of Edward's Parliaments? I don't quite follow the logic of the statement. The easiest way from Temple Church to Westminster is by river rather than along the Strand.