tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post7340493363121027909..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: Walsingham, Oh farewell!Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-57399089978569183922008-09-23T13:40:00.000+02:002008-09-23T13:40:00.000+02:00Anonymous posts are not allowed. Please take a mom...Anonymous posts are not allowed. <BR/><BR/>Please take a moment to examine the commbox rules linked on the sidebar.Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-25638553465345944732008-09-23T10:26:00.000+02:002008-09-23T10:26:00.000+02:00I am a great lover of Walsingham and I am also a h...I am a great lover of Walsingham and I am also a historian, and I don't think that misstatements and exaggerations serve the cause of Our Lad or Truth. The "Walsingham Project"'s account of the history of the shrine contains far too many. It would fail as an undergraduate essay! Just on this current page I note:<BR/>"the soldiers of the King": the pillaging was done by Cromwell's agents, not soldiers, and they likely included the very local people who had built or repaired the Shrine.<BR/>And there are records of only two men being martyred on the so-called Martyr's Field, a pair of (lay) choristers. Nor do we have records of all the "generous pensions"given to the capitulating canons--the prior, yes. <BR/><BR/>I recommend Dickinson's History of the Shrine (1956). Sober, careful, not (either accidentally or deliberately) inflammatory.<BR/><BR/>May Truth reign. Truth includes truths. <BR/>Pax.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com