humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 15, 12:19=A0pm, Lyra wrote:
> Well, this is different for me - this post is about Bacon!
>
> Elizabeth's post interested me...
>
> (quote)
>
> I know, I've poured over maps of Gloucestershire looking for Bacon's
> 'estate on the Avon' =A0claimed by
> the Baconians. =A0Stratford is what?
> twenty or thirty miles from Gloucestershire,
> Gloucestershire is maybe sixty miles
> long? then you hang a left at the Severn
> to Wilton which looks to be another
> thirty or forty mile drive?
>
> (unquote)
>
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> I've looked around to see what I might find,
> and I wonder if there is a link here...

I had to fall back on the Wilton Avon.
Spedding et al place Bacon there as a
youth but we can't be sure that Jonson
knew that.

Your information is very complete.

Thanks, Lyra.

> (quote)
>
> Cheltenham Church and its lands were then leased to a succession of
> laymen, who were responsible for employing curates to serve the Church
> and parish, while they themselves enjoyed the profits of the church
> land and properties.
>
> The most famous of these laymen was Francis Bacon (1561-1626) to whom
> the Church, and the Chapel at CharIton Kings, were leased in 1598.
>
> http://www.stmattschelt.org.uk/history.htm
>
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>
> Cheltenham is certainly in Gloucestershire,
> and there appears to be a River Avon in the area...
>
> in fact, two, the Wiltshire Avon
> and the "Tetbury Avon".
>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
> The Avon rises near Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, dividing into
> two before merging again and flowing through Wiltshire. In its lower
> reaches from Bath to the River Severn at Avonmouth near Bristol the
> river is navigable and known as the Avon Navigation.
>
> Course
>
> The Avon rises near Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, between the
> villages of Old Sodbury and Acton Turville. Running a somewhat
> circular path, the river drains east and then south through Wiltshire.
>
> Its first main settlement is the village of Luckington, two miles
> inside the Wiltshire border, and then on to Sherston.
>
> At Malmesbury it joins up with its first major tributary,
>
> the Tetbury Avon, which rises just north of Tetbury in
> Gloucestershire.
>
> This tributary is known locally as the Ingleburn, which in Old English
> means 'English river'.
>
> Here, the two rivers almost meet but their path is blocked by a rocky
> outcrop of the Cotswolds, almost creating an island for the ancient
> hilltop town of Malmesbury to sit on.
>
> For much of its course after leaving Wiltshire, it marks the
> traditional boundary between Somerset and Gloucestershire.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Avon,_Bristol
>
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