tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post2421023726790070941..comments2023-10-10T11:41:33.153+01:00Comments on The Armoury: Wednesday.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15107533550298517814noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-63347882418419813622017-01-16T20:10:40.294+00:002017-01-16T20:10:40.294+00:00Hello Z. The three scimitars indicate that you are...Hello Z. The three scimitars indicate that you are in Essex (North Essex in this case).<br />Hello Crowbard. My thanks for your invaluable research on this, and indeed on all the subjects we have waffled on about in this blog.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15107533550298517814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-45517999779504120572017-01-10T16:21:56.624+00:002017-01-10T16:21:56.624+00:00Hi Mike,
I notice my comment of 4th January 2017 o...Hi Mike,<br />I notice my comment of 4th January 2017 on Long Gardens (a street in Twinstead, Sudbury, Essex) appears to have escaped your attention, it probably wasn't worth publishing, but I'm a little concerned that your 'pooter may be making executive decisions on your behalf without consultation ....Crowbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350188604175280097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-12770451097376266122017-01-05T22:26:15.986+00:002017-01-05T22:26:15.986+00:00addendum to previous comment:-
the scimitars were ...addendum to previous comment:-<br />the scimitars were originally saxon seaxes presumed modified in the 19th century ~ so small chance of crusader link.<br />see:- https://britishcountyflags.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/essex-flag/<br />Crowbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350188604175280097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-82834166345953049052017-01-05T22:17:18.297+00:002017-01-05T22:17:18.297+00:00Long Gardens appears to be a residential road in t...Long Gardens appears to be a residential road in the village now known as Twinstead which is recorded in the Domesday Book as Tumesteda and is a small parish overlooking the Stour Valley. There has been a settlement there from as early as the 12th century being called at various times Tumstead and Tunstead, Twinstead being a mis-transcription of the handwritten Tumstead.<br />Much of the History is handed on verbally and concerns stories of farming, the land and the lives of country folk. Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, Simon Theobald had his Summer Palace there; he got the blame for the first Poll tax. At the culmination of the Peasants Revolt of 1381 he was dragged from the Tower of London and beheaded, his body being buried in London while his skull remains in Sudbury at St. Gregory's Church. See Wright's History of Essex, vol. i., p. 484. <br />Presumably if you fail to reduce your speed you will be unable to make the turn into Long Gardens and end up in front gardens. The heraldic device of 3 scimitars paley suggests perhaps an historic link to a crusader?Crowbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01350188604175280097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644275821862159476.post-85597160233034863412017-01-05T15:17:40.420+00:002017-01-05T15:17:40.420+00:00I've never seen such a sign, how funny! And I...I've never seen such a sign, how funny! And I can't think what those scimitar-like patterns are meant to indicate. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.com