#Cornbury

[hrhzaratindall]

Zara Tindall today at Cornbury Horse trials

[rk-striker-jk-5]

The Bangles - Cornbury Music Festival, July 5, 2008

[william-the-ladyfinger]

Name changer / Game changer

Let it be known to all that the alchemist formerly known as Neo of Sporin has adopted a new title. From now on, I shall be addressed as: William the Ladyfinger

Copulations, lickeuries and minuets!

@lady-lord-cornbury @docdust @angelo-chuck-wagon @i-dream-of-sheeny @amagnificentobsession

bcc: Church of England, the Pope, Queen Anne, all governors of the colonies of the British Empire

[lady-lord-cornbury]

Me in my younger years (I was 19)!

@william-the-ladyfinger what do you think?

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern performs with sadie & the hotheads at the cornbury music festival (july 2013) | 📸: harry herd

[thedudleywomen]

On This Day (29 Aug) in 1588, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester wrote to Elizabeth I from Rycote, Oxon, less than a week before his death.

56yo Robert Dudley had recently played an integral role as Elizabeth's Lieutenant General, in the defence of England against the attempted invasion of England by the 'Spanish Armada' earlier that summer. It was Dudley who had arranged for the Queen to travel to the camp at Tilbury, where she delivered her famous rallying speech to her troops on 09 Aug 1588.

Following the defeat of the Spanish, Dudley had returned to London for the celebrations; however, he was described as "weak" and "exhausted". He therefore left London prematurely, accompanied by his wife Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester, with the intention of heading north to the Midlands - initially to his home in Kenilworth and then on to Buxton to "take the waters'.

The couple's first planned stopped was at Rycote, the home of Henry Norris, kinsman of Lettice, and old friend of Dudley's (and the Queen's). It was here that Dudley wrote to Elizabeth, thanking her for the 'meddycyn' that she had sent her, and sending her best wishes for her own health.

He signed the letter "by your most faythful and obedyent servant. R Leycester"

This letter was found in a small casket next to the Queen's bed after her own death in Mar 1603; she had labelled it 'his Last Lettar', and there was evidence she had re-read it many times.

Shortly after sending this letter, the couple continued their journey hoping to finde perfect cure at the bath"; however, Dudley's health quickly deteriorated, forcing them to break their journey at Cornbury Park, a former royal hunting lodge in Oxfordshire; it was here that Dudley died a few days later on 04 Sep 1588.

[ollywears]

Olly Alexander wearing a Christina Aguilera 2022 Tour merch t-shirt in an Instagram reel at the Wilderness festival (August 8, 2022).

[orderjackalope]

Legend says Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury (1661-1723) was New York's worst governor: a nepo baby failson; a bully and bigot; a corrupt spendthrift; a sex pest with an ear fetish. Was he really all that awful?

And was he actually a transvestite?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/universally-detested/

Key sources for this episode include Patricia Bonomi's The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America; Alan Taylor's Writing Early American History; Charles Worthen Spencer's "The Cornbury Legend"; John Grant Wilson's The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its First Settlement to the Year 1892; and Shelley Ross's Fall from Grace: Sex, Scandal and Corruption in American Politics from 1702 to the Present.

Special thanks to the Initiates who contributed their voice talents to this episode: #2 Robert White, Richard Le Poidevin (of "The Curiosity of…?!"), #7, Dorothy White, Kristen Harkness, and Mary Anne White.

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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!

[paulpingminho]

[maypoleman1]

8th September

Ghostly September

Amy Robshart by William Frederick Yeames (1877). Source: Tate website

On this day in 1560, the body of Amy Robshart was discovered at the foot of a flight of stairs at Cumnor Place, Oxfordshire, dead from a broken neck. Amy was the wife of Robert Dudley, a court favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Whereas the death could have been the result of an unfortunate accident, suspicion fell on her husband who was exonerated at the subsequent inquiry. The semi-scandal did not do him any harm as Elizabeth later made him Earl of Leicester. However Amy was not content to leave things there. Dudley was confronted by his wife’s ghost at Cornbury Park and she told him matter of factly that he would die within ten days. Sure enough the terrified Dudley did just that. Amy did not rest in peace after this however. Despite despite an attempted exorcism in 1810, she continues to haunt both Cumnor Place and Cornbury Park, and if you spot her there, your death is imminent.

On this day in 1705, in Canterbury in Kent, a Mrs Bargrave received an unexpected visit from her friend Mrs Veal, who made an unusual request. Mrs Veal asked Mrs Bargrave if she would mind procuring a grave stone for her deceased mother and to ensure enough space was left on the stone for her own name to be added. Mrs Bargrave agreed to the request but remained puzzled as to why Mrs Veal could not arrange the purchase herself. She soon found out: Mrs Veal had died in Dover the previous day. Mrs Bargrave followed through on the ghostly request and her friend’s phantom was never seen again.

[fyeah-olivia-colman]

Olivia Colman reads during a performance of Letters Live at Wilderness Festival 2024 at Cornbury Park on August 04, 2024 in Charlbury, Oxfordshire. (Photos by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

[angelo-chuck-wagon]

@william-the-ladyfinger @anthonis-van-dyck @docdust @lady-lord-cornbury @amagnificentobsession @the-metatron

I did it! I done finally finished my paintin'! Everyone should tell me how proud they are of me! I'm a good boy!

[william-the-ladyfinger]

Will you please tell me who this aristocrat you been seein' is? I think I deserve to know at least.

-- Angelo "Chuck" John Wayne Wagon

With pleasure, @angelo-chuck-wagon. I have been seeing @lady-lord-cornbury. Once. We took to the woods, rolled in the leaves and I tried to tear her clothes. She smacked me with her fan (which excited me greatly). I grabbed her butt. That's about it.

[lady-lord-cornbury]

For those who wish to see more of me.

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern performs with sadie & the hotheads at the cornbury music festival (july 2013) | 📸: harry herd

[thedudleywomen]

On This Day (04 Sep) 1588, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, died at Cornbury Park, Oxon. He was making his way north to the Midlands when he was forced to break is journey at the former Royal hunting lodge.

Robert was accompanied by his wife, Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester. Lettice had been banished from court since Elizabeth I heard the news of the couple's secret marriage in 1578, with the Queen famously brandishing her "that She-Wolf".

Sick and exhausted, Robert had left London prematurely, the rest of the Royal Court, including the Queen, continuing their celebrations for the recent victory over the 'Spanish Armada' (during which Robert, as her Lieutenant General had invited Elizabeth to give her famous speech to the troops at Tilbury). With Lettice, Robert started his journey north from London, planning to head first for Kenilworth Castle, and then on to Buxton "to finde perfect cure at the bath"; he had previously visited the natural springs there, popular amongst those with ill health.

By 29 Aug 1588, the couple had arrived at Rycote, Oxon, the home of old friend Sir Henry Norris. It was from here that Robert wrote for the final time to Elizabeth I. The couple continued their journey, but were quickly forced to take shelter at Cornbury Park, due to Robert's deteriorating health. He died here, Lettice being present, with historians speculating cause of death being stomach cancer or malaria.

Elizabeth I was grief-stricken with the death of her long-term 'favourite', the pair having had a close and complex relationship for moat of their adult lives. She went subsequently went into mourning for Robert; the famous 'Armada Portraits' depict the Queen as triumphant but solemn, and she is wearing the jewel gifted to her in Robert's will. Robert's final correspondence, which she had labelled 'his last lettar' was found in a small casket by her bed, following he own death in Mar 1603.

Despite a request for his funeral to be held 'with as little pomp and vain expense', a grand funeral, costing in excess of £3000, was held in Oct 1588, at St Mary's Church, Warwick; it commenced with a 400-strong procession for 6 miles from Kenilworth. His stepson, and the Queen's new 'favourite', Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was Robert's chief mourner, also representing his mother Lettice, who as traditional held, may not have attended (inconsistent reports exist).

His widow Lettice commissioned an elaborate tomb for Robert in the Beauchamp Chapel of St Mary's Church, proudly displayed his heraldry and emblem of the bear and ragged staff. This tomb was a short distance from the resting place of their son, Robert, Lord Denbigh who had died aged 3yo in 1584, and where his elder brother Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, would be buried 18 months later.

Following her own death over 40 years later, Lettice was also buried alongside her second husband, with effigies of the couple still surviving.

For a more detail, you can read my blog - 'The Death of Robert Dudley - 04 Sep 1588' on thedudleywomen.com.