The Pillaging and Plundering of the English Monasteries – JOSEPH PEARCE
In August 1535, Thomas Cromwell’s inquisitors arrived at Glastonbury. When the elderly abbot, Richard Whiting, refused to surrender the Abbey to the king, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London. He and two other monks were dragged on a hurdle to the Tor, the hill overlooking the Abbey, where they were hanged, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered. The Abbot’s head was stuck on a pike above the entrance to the Abbey for all to see. His quarters were boiled in pitch and then displayed in the nearby towns of Wells, Bath, Ilchester and Bridgewater. Abbot Richard Whiting was seventy-eight years old when this act of barbarism was inflicted upon him, a mark of the merciless Machiavellianism of the king and his “good servants”. With the brutal execution of these three monks, the curtain fell on England’s oldest Marian shrine, which dated from the first century and which, according to legend, had been founded by St. Joseph of Arimathea as early as 63AD.
The rest of the small history lesson here, at Crisis.
If today you can prove that lands or goods, including gold, jewels, and valuable art works, were taken from your family illegally by the Nazis, the lands, goods, paintings, etc. are returned. It is incredibly easy to identify all the land, goods, buildings, gold, property, etc. which the criminal English stole from the catholic church. Why aren’t these things being returned to the one, true church of Jesus Christ? – Good Queen Elizabeth I had numerous catholics and catholic priests executed in this way – hung, drawn, and quartered – because allegiance to God and not to her was treason. There must be a very special level of hell for those who, on Elizabeth Barbaria’s orders, castrated, inter alia, ordained priests and bishops while they were still alive, i.e. only “quite dead”. Jane Austen wrote, correctly, in her HISTORY OF ENGLAND, that “Elizabeth . . . . . . wicked as she herself was, she could not have committed such extensive mischeif, had not . . .Men connived at, and encouraged her in her Crimes.” It was no wonder no man had the courage to marry her. If you ever make the mistake of thinking, of Elizabeth I Barbaria as “great.” – in any way you wish to define “great,” – think of those holy men, still alive, screaming in pain as their testicles were cut off by “order of Her Royal Majesty.” Guy, Texas
“To be hanged, drawn and quartered became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352, although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272). The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces). His remains would then often be displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge, to serve as a warning of the fate of traitors. For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake.”
I’ve been seeing some quiet comparisons of the percent-of-nation kill off for Henry the 8th, much less the rest, vs 20th century outrages.
We may finally be getting far enough along to break the, ah, narrative bias towards English language sources.