The Moslems controlled the water and the land between Europe and India for 1300 years. The cannon was a European invention and it took away that water from the Moslems.
Though everyone talked spices I found out that the real money was in 1300 years of accumulated rare stones that no one in Europe even knew existed. I did not deal with the leader usually but with the Rajputs, a caste which reminded me of Japanese Samurai, who acted as go betweens and brought the jewels to us. Also as time went on Sikh's did also. It took more than honesty and a good track record to involve them, it took good deeds on our part. (I founded lot's of orphanages, etc.)
From the start me and my husband, Robert Cecil, were right in the middle of it all.
Africa:
1602: By 1602-1604 in Guinea trade [gold mines on the Guinea coast which we got out of just as soon as they went into the slave trade when Queen Elizabeth died] are Charles Leigh and his brother Oliph (sic). Charles Howard/Nottingham deals with shipowning merchants Robert and William Bragg who also handle war business. Allied to Cecil were Sir Thomas Myddleton and Sir Richard Hawkins; also in Cecil's circles Thomas Alabaster an Anglo-Iberian trader of Seville. Myddleton has a partner, Nicholas Farrar. Here
Caribbean for trade and privateering and plundering Spainish treasure galleons (until the treaty):
1604: By 1604 in the English Caribbean trade are new men John Eldred and Richard Hall, talking to Sir Robert Cecil in 1604 of such trade, some Dutch names given, some Genoese, John Williams of London, Edward Savage a London merchant a go-between, Charles Howard earl of Nottingham and Lord High Admiral 1585-1619 is a political ally of Sir Rbt Cecil and a privateer too. Same
Orient and North America but our involevment was kept a complete secret. That was done by using proxies and one I located on the internet.
[Reverend Richard] Hakluyt was a director of the Virginia Company in 1589, and later, in 1606, a patentee of a new Virginia Company. In 1612 he became a charter member of the North-west Passage Company. I did not see any suggestion of a salary with these positions.
Walsingham died before he had time to reward Hakluyt much. But in the late 90s he became the client of Sir Robert Cecil, Burghley's son, who was to be Hakluyt's most fruitful patron. Here
Whenever you see a reverend practically running a huge trade enterprise in the late 1500's to early 1600 it was more often one of ours than anyone elses proxy. They certainly were not doing that on their own or they would not have been ministers.
There mainly seven others that we used as proxies to keep our participation secret. There were 4 total clergy, 1 London's Jewish leader, his son, one was Roberts cousin or nephew and one was me by another name but my daughter Frances substituted later on among several others.
Every single English and half the Dutch ships that sailed to Asia involved Robert. My dealing in jewels was totally independent of my husband.
Our dealings were usually under an alias since when people found out that Robert Cecil was involved it immediately, at least, doubled the price that we had to pay the next time that we wanted to get involved in the same project. Mainly at first we used one name which I have forgotten and then we were the blue blood Hoptons. When we got smart we became the Popes of Wroxton, mainly because it sounded very Catholic to the Dutch and Spanish shipping companies that had the nerve to actually accuse Anne Hopton of being a Protestant. Then implied that I might even be an English spy. We found out that Pope also worked very well on the Indian's. The Indian's could not legally use a title as part of their name unless it was ther title so we had to be part of 'The Vatican Pope's' family. Since none of the Indians wanted the karma of being responsible for starting a war or the anger of many Catholic saints nothing ever got stolen, lost or broken. We could leave our crates on the docks of India for weeks at a time. We lost two crates and it turned out got sent to the next dock over because the wrong number was on the box. The two large crates labeled 'POPE' sat undisturbed on an unguarded dock right next to the public ferry, for over 6 months.
About 15 times when they visited England we drove the rulers of India around in circles for hours to confuse their sense of direction before we took them to a transformed Hatfield House which to impress them had became the Pope Estates for a few weeks every year. Except for once before we moved when the Cecil familys Theobald estate belonged to the Hopton's. I could get sidetracked on many of these memories that are often as clear as a bell which reminds me of another story...
Roberts idea of a fun project was establishing 'Indian Ink' production and then importing it to England, which he was proud of (and so was I) because cheap ink enhanced publishing, education and freedom of speech.
Robert was working to build our trading company into a great empire. The problem was that we were the late arrivals and had few resouces by comparison to the other countries. Though for a number of years we traded jointly with the Dutch under their flag and often rented cargo space. So we had to take a different tact and not even compete with them. We did with trade what the Swiss did with everything else. Since the Swiss did not have an ocean port they could not be the best in trade so we English decided to develop the best reputation for quality and honesty in international trade.
The others were not to be trusted by and large (though because of our example the Dutch later did imporve their reputation. Certainly the Asians did not trust anyone until England entered the scene,
Robert's Cecil's family name had the greatest of reputations worldwide so it lent itself well for transforming and building our trading company into the one with the greatest of reputations. It was impecable from the start. Robert Cecil was responsible for 90% of it, largely through the contracts and the close observance of all aspects in exactitude of their implimentation. So for that reason also Robert had to steer clear of anything like buying and selling jewels that even remotely sounded 'speculative'.
Also, Robert said he could not be bothered with the minor side trade I started in 'trinkets' which is what he called jewels, except for the rubies which he ocassionally called 'colorful stones'. It was a minor part of my involvement until the rulers of Asia found out that I was trustworthy, then they placed thousands of carats in my lap.
I had letters from Queen Elizabeth which got it started and later to those were added letters from King James. Those combined with my and England's reputation opened every door in Asia. That included treasuries that held more combined wealth in just jewels than in all the rest of the world combined. By the time I died 90% of the known jewels were in the west. I was involved in over half of those stones that ended up in the west.
That is when I entered the worldwide play called 'The Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies' and turned it into the ultimate 'Shakespeare' passion play complete with about ten kings ransoms in jewels and it became the greatest story not yet fully told, later renamed; The British East India Company'.
I left a whole bunch of jewels hidden in or near my home in Hatfield when I died in ~1636. Most were the crown jewels of Bohemia which the king and queen who lived in exile had me hold on to for safe keeping. They are still safe I think. I knew the family quite well and they came to visit me often. (I have since figured out who the couple were King Ferdinand and Elizabeth of Bohemia.
Besides those there were over 500 (carats?) of other jewels or Bohemia's jewels.
The other 500 ct. are not all mine. One sapphire was to paid for who had not picked it up so I don't know about that one. I think the rest of them are family and were even registered to the family (and probably recorded in family records) at the time.
Who registered jewels at the time? That information must be around somewhere. That is where the records will be of those jewels that belong to the family of the 7th Marquess of Salisbury. It may double their wealth and he is far from poor now. It probably won't quite double it, but maybe. Combined with the only Marcus Gheeraerts stained glass window in the world and a few other things it's going to be pretty close to it. Then the only 400 year old Renaissance theater in the world should certainly take it past the mark and no I don't want anything to do with any of it.
It was enough of a headache for me back then. That was a big estate for a man and wife. For one widow it was far too much work.
Do you know how much work it was just to get a bite to eat at night from the kitchen with a lamp, forget it. Do you know how far it was to the front door from my bedroom? Or how far a bathroom was from where we normally spent most of our time? Robert's back got bad in 1608 and those stairs had such large steps that they were nearly impossible for him to climb. The steps were about 1 1/2 feet deep and climbed 1 foot up each step but they have probably been changed by now. They look like they are still deep but don't appear to be too steep here but just wait until the stair turns to the right. It appears a lot steeper and judging by the hand rail it's the same old 2 to 3 ratio. They probably changed and used more steps so each one isn't a foot high like they used to be.
Then my back got bad from a fall in a storm returning from India which broke my hip. So for the last few years those stairs were so steep they often seemed like the became the Himalayas (4 times I went to India and 3 of those times and one other I went farther).
Then when the road to London got fixed
lots people came out who just wanted to exploit us. Since we had a lot
of foreign, including African and exotic American animals lot's of
people wanted to see them and one even triggered the skunk to spray.
(We had heard it smelled but we could not believe how bad until that
person pulled it's tail for no reason at all. Some would get lost in
the maze and get impatient so they would try to cut short cuts through
the maze. People we
never even knew or knew of just came and invaded the place. Half the time or more they would not even
come to the door and ask first. They would stop there first and even
hide their horses so we could not see them from the house. We would
often find out later on or not at all. I was totally fed up with it all
five years before I kicked off.
I
have to make one thing perfectly clear. I don't know where
they are hidden.
The stones that belonged to me back then were intended to be a gift to me now. Let me explain. When I drowned I thought it was a waste and I brought her/myself back to life. Here Doing it almost killed me in this life. It's an unresolved death issue and there are many people who feed off of it and try to fulfill it thinking that I have a death wish when it is nothing of the sort. They have the wrong person
Also
women all seem to notice that I have an big unresolved issue with
'another woman'. Dozens have told me that or something similar but
until now I could never figure out what they were talking about. It
really messed up my love life (when I had one). The stones are a just
reward.
I would
have to
be there and the conditions right to even begin to find them. There are
hundreds of emotions I have with that old house so I don't know how
long it would take to get them to lower level which would not disturb
this process.
All these memories are at best vague like memories that you have when you were five years old. If you were asked where things were in your first grade school class you probably would not remember fully but if you went to your old school it would all come flooding back in no time. When it a past life the emotions have to be dealt with for the memories to flow. It's like a deep well that I draw my past life memories from. It takes time to reflect. If something isn't right then it is as if the well isn't straight and the information like water gets so muddy nothing can done with it until the emotions get straight.
It's amazing how fast past life memories can shut down.***
The most interesting thing is a possibility that I had not even considered. It is that workmen installing electrical, plumbing or heating might have come across them and not told anyone. We could not make hidden compartments that would foresee the future inventions of mankind so there is always that possibility.
We may not have had a whole lot of safety deposit boxes in banks or metal safes with combination locks. In fact if we even had them I surely didn't know about it but I had Robert Cecil who protected most of England's secrets and he had access to the best builders of secret compartments in the world. They traveled in sealed carriages in teams of four and were lead into buildings wearing blindfolds so they could do their work and not know where they were or who they were doing it for.
It was the job that I would have chosen had I been born a man. I can recall one that my half sister had which required you to knock at a specific place on a wall three times in rapid succession. That would send a resonance down a six foot shaft which acted like a tuning fork and somehow that would enable two latches at once which in turn would spring open the secret panel. You had to knock in one place just right three times, and not too hard or it would not work.
Anyway I guess if they are still there then those jewels belong in Bohemia (Czech Republic).
Don't even bother looking without me.
There is no metal at all. It's interesting that we built it so it would be undetectable with all modern equipment. (I just remembered that actually there were highly sensitive metal detectors back then which were based on magnets mounted on jewel movements from clocks.)
Those jewels were known to exist when I died and after my death my son and King James must have had men spend years looking for them since his daughters honor rested in part on them.
[ADDED:
13/4 It's been about 5 days of working on the theatre
and Francis Drake
information. I have to maintain a balance and working
on those two topics helped a lot. Helping the arts and English
school children learn about the masterful mind of Sir Francis Drake
keeps me balanced in a way that this cant. Drake is who became Ariel in
my play 'The Tempest'.) In 5 days time these memories have gotten much stronger and clearer. The other stones were mostly rubies/spinels. They alternated or had a pattern of rubies and diamonds where there now only pearls and it was nicer looking than the pearls. The light it gave off made the whole sceptre come alive. They were above and below where Frederick's hand goes went. The top was different is not the one that was there. That is not a Bohemian design.
(See more about the sceptre below.)
The rubies were much larger than the diamonds. The diamonds were not cut for briliance, they were cut to make the rubies brilliant. The diamonds channeled almost all their light into the rubies that were on each side of it unitl the diamonds had so little light they were only a dull brown color. The diamond on the other side did the same and the light met in the center. The rubies then had a cross inside them like a star sapphire do only it is a brilliant red and it fairly burst from 1/4 inch to a foot in front of the stone, not deep inside as you might suspect or on the surface. The distance it appeared to be in front of the stone depended on how close you were to it. I likened it to the elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It always moves away as you approach it only the cross also got smaller as you approached it.
However, it was not a star like a star sapphire has. It was a cross and I don't know how it was done. That is partly explainable:
The stars may exhibit four, six, or more rarely twelve rays, depending on the crystal system of the gem, and the way the gem was originally positioned in it.Here
It makes sense so far (though I had no knowledge of such a thing as a 4 ray star gemstone before yesterday).
There is such a thing but it's not a spinel. The one example of a
(4 ray) cross I have found so far is sapphire called a Black Star of India Diopside
though it is not the kind of stones that were in the sceptre. It's different than a sapphire's star in other ways also. The star of a sapphire appears to be on the surface of the sapphire whereas these crosses seemed to be up to a foot in front of the sceptre. Almost like a 3D transmission at Disneyworld that I saw that I felt like I could almost reach out and touch it. 3D projected images get smaller when you approach them in the exact same way as the cross that was projected by the spinel was.
In direct sunlight it sometimes would scintilate like a laser (coherant) light. Rubies are used for lasers but I never heard of spinels being used. JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories) once developed a ruby laser for outer space that used a 2 foot across parabolic mirror to collect enough sunlight, even on earth, to make it operate (lase) but that entails a whole lot more light. We also had emerald, ruby other gemstone lasers (mostly synthetic that are not found in nature) around the optics lab where I once designed a laser. I doubt that small amount of sunlight could cause any stone to lase but it probably could if it was all focused in one little area of the spinel and the facets were absolutely parallel and flat. Anyway it sure was incredibly beautiful.
(I don't know what words to use since I have never studied any of this. I knew the words 400 years ago. I have the memories but like most people their memories don't actually come with words. You have dig the words out from what you have learned elsewhere and associate them with the memories. I have never learned the associated jewlery words in this life so I am at a loss to explain what I remember. Lasers I'm an expert at. Physics too.)
There was a very
large golden topaz which we also called a red topaz. It may be
what they now call a Ceylon Andalusite.It was on the top section. I think it also produced a star but it may not have been projected in front of the stone. It just seemed to be incredibly wonderful. It could have been a 4 ray rutile or even a large diamond. It was a much cleaner cross that the one on the right. There are many other stones that produce 4 rays and can be gold colored apparently garnets, chrysobery stars/cats eyes, but they though none of them come anywhere near it. I really can't quite recall it strongly yet, even to remember just how many rays it projected, whether it was 4 or 6. [I am seeing too many memories and right now it gotten to disorganized so I have to stop.]
Those projected crosses made the person holding that Protestant golden club look more God like than anyone that the pope had ever seen bfore (about the 1540's). 60 years or more later those that came after him heard about it and each time the discription became more incredible until an entire army was sent to steal it from Bohemia and that my friend was the start of, as well as what started, the bloodfest of innocent people called the 30 Year's War.
Have you ever heard of Bohemian cryatal? Of course you have. It's the best because it's said that the Bohemians were bred to those with the best understanding of crystals and refraction. It was actually enforced by laws in the late middle ages and maybe even into the 1500's. They could make spinels into lasers if anyone on earth could.
That is how Bohemians actually saw the world, as multifacted as the crystals they worked with. That is why Bohemian means unconventional thinker but that is a misnomer. They think the same they just see things differently. It's more detached so they approach everything differently but other wise their minds work the same. Frederick was that way and his way of seeing things was incredible in that he saw angles and aspects of situations that no one else saw.
I wish you could have seen their sceptre, maybe you still can.
I also remember that after Frederick died his wife Elizabeth Stuart was beside herself. They were so in love that without him she felt there was nothing left to live for. She was in shock for years. I'd never seen it before or since. I had never seen a couple that close before either.]
After this I looked into who they could have been. I kept thinking Bavaria but it wasn't Bavaria, it was Bohemia. The I read this:
He married Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I of England and of Anne of Denmark in the Chapel
Royal, Whitehall on February 14, 1613 Here
It
sounds very much as if the King and Queen of Bohemia entrusted me with
the crown jewels of the sceptre.
Besides these I had others. I recall that my net 'worth' was exceeded only by Queen Elizabeth's when she died and was about half of her 'net worth'. There are many elongated yellowish stones. I think they are diamonds but you don't often see them cut like that today. Similar to a Marquis cut but different. I'll find a picture of one or I make one in photoshop.
It's only a guess but they are probably worth about 5 million each. These are the Cecil 'family jewels' and belong to our heirs which are the same as the heirs of the Hatfield Estate. There may be one other family jewel which belong with those and it's very impressive.
We used to call spinels 'brilliant rubies' but we didn't know they were not the same stone. However I do know that this one is not as good as the one that I personally owned because about ten of us (including three jewelry buyers) set mine and it side by side and directly compared them. The jewlery expert at the tower in charge of the English crown jewels said mine was worth twice as much (but he was lying to get close to me).
That was good gotten gains earned through trade investments overseas, mainly English/German/Dutch joint ventures. I had intended to sell it to King James but he either went broke or was finally burned out on jewels and was just telling me he was broke, So I was looking at bids from German Aristocrats and royals who were making their assets as liquid as possible since everything and everyone's allegiance was in flux because of the rapid changes resulting from the 30 years war between Protestant and Catholic forces. There was a rational basis to the war at least to some degree until the French got involved which started with verbal warnings in 1628 as a warm up and to get the population energized so they would want to joining in the fracas which they did in 1635.
You might be the leader of a small country sort of like Luxembourg with 500 years of independence and you wake up one morning to find out that 5 large countries including Spain had a modern army that was twice the size of the population of your entire country outside your gates and they had just declared war on your country simply because five years earlier your father had sided with their present enemy over a some land dispute amounting to less than two square kilometres. You have only two hour to get everything you can carry in a bag and high tail it to the neighbouring nation before the French caught you.
The French went insane when they got into wars. They were alright if they lost but they were never satisfied when they won. If they were the victors they would turn on their very best leaders like Joan of Arc. Who they burn and then make into their saints in churches that they then invaded to massacre their own clergy (like in the Hunchback of Notre Dame but then again the Germans were not slouches since they did the same only lots worse and to two bishops near Worms in the 1500's but it was probably completely covered up and unconfirmable, unlike almost everything else that is on this web site which I put on because it could be confirmed and be a 21st century maze for a few history classes and ambitious grad students in need of a thesis while I get on with remembering my other lives, so forget I used the German example. Besides Germans can be no fun at all if you start looking closely at the wrong part of their past.)
Every other country would hold the leader captive and thereby end up eventually getting 100% cooperation from it's population but not France. No, France would have to pull both arms and one leg off using 4 horses in an unhappy procedure called 'draw and quarter' to get the population's cooperation, thereby assuring that the now very unhappy population would provide the French with nothing but revolts, hatred and a complete lack of willing cooperation. It's totally contagious since everyone then does exactly the same thing. Do the French still do that?
Yes, the brilliant ruby would have been perfect. Every ruler and every wealthy person on the mainland who wanted to know how Frederick V had gotten the jewels out of Bohemia contacted him, half through me since they had no permanent address and since I had a perfect reputation for honesty and integrity half of them quietly bought jewels through me. For many years I was selling and buying jewels of very high value. The best in the world sice the English were considered more honest (and were) than any other European country.
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As the
queens buccaneer Sir Francis Drake had invaded the Spanish Empire in
both the New World as well as in Spain itself and all points in between
and he had taken their galleons at will. However, he kept ending up
back in court in between those relatively short trips. He was so bent
on sticking up for Queen Elizabeth's honor at ever sly look from a
visiting Baron that she told William Cecil her chief advisor and
Treasurer to 'get him out of here for a few years before he gets
himself killed defending my honor'. It was reported that she
actually used the word hell as in, 'get him the hell out of here..'
after she got right in his face as he was drawing his sword on some
trembling Italian representative, though thankfully not the Ambassador. 1577-1578: Hawkins accuses Sir William Winter of "abuses in the Admiralty touching her Majesty's Navy, of inefficiency, peculation and sabotaging England's defences in return for Spanish gold". Hawkins even accused Sir William of being paid by the Spanish. He produced a report to William Cecil, Lord Burghley about the condition of the Navy which was highly critical of Sir William Winter saying he kept records of indents for tackle and cordage in his private books and the Navy Office knows nothing about it. It went on to say there were abuses in purchasing and disposing of timber and planks which were used by private individuals. He maintained there was fraud "for Sir William Winter's commodity" and presented details under the heading "matteres that touch Sir William Winter particularly".1579: A report on the voyage dated 2 June 1579 was found in the British Museum in 1929 with the Prelude and Draft Plan of the Voyage (BM Lansdowne MSS 100 No.2) which show that William and George Winter financially backed the 1577 voyage with £750 and £500 respectively. Here I think Hawkins was complaining to the absolutely worst person possible! It's fascinating what you stumble into reading these old reports like these I found on the internet. For instance I thought William Cecil only used privately owned supplies and not navy supplies as these directly tied our government into the operation. There would have been war declared if the Spanish had traced any of Drakes supplies back to the English Navy. The Spanish by virtue of treaties brought in France, Holy Roman Empire, Italy, etc, I can also see why my father-in-law had to barricade himself in his castle. His name is so commonly found in these pages that they don't even use his first name until his son Robert (my husband came along). 1562:Merchant adventurer Sir Lionel Duckett; He had three daughters with dowry of 5000 pounds in Tudor money. Fox-Bourne, Merchant Memoirs. Duckett's staff worked with copper and silver, and in cloth manufacturing. Duckett had a company with Cecil, and the Earls of Pembroke, to construct waterworks to drain mines. Taylor, Tudor Geography, p. 107. Brenner, Merchants and Revolution, p. 81. Here So far I found one reference to Elizabeth Pope (which is one alias that us Cecils used). I guess one of my offspring became the mayor of London, Follows an impression of family history of London Lord Mayor 1619-1620 Sir William Cokayne Descendants of Levant trader, London Lord Mayor Sir William Cokayne (b.1561;d.1626) and sp: Mary Morris wife2 2. Martha Cokayne wife1 (b.1605;d.Jul 1641) sp: Montagu Bertie Earl2 Lindsey Lord Willoughby (b.1608;m.18 Apr 1627;d.25 Jul 1666)3. Robert Bertie Lord16 Lord Willoughby, Earl3 Lindsey (b.1630;d.Sep 1655) sp: Elizabeth Wharton wife2 (d.1 Jul 1669) sp: Mary Masingberd wife1 sp: Elizabeth Pope ...Here Why were you not taught this information in school. First, it was a treason to expose the details of any crown operation, that alone meant death. Then to enforce it completely Queen Elizabeth commanded that nobody ever tell what had happened. That sealed the lips forever of everyone who was involved. It is no secret that upon Drake's return Queen Elizabeth ordered him and his men not to reveal the particulars of their voyage. Here None ot the men committed treason and none disobeyed tQueen Elizabeth's direct command. Each one meant death. Not for 20 years did any of the information get out. Where did the information come from that everyone assumes is correct? Some of what you got were English embelishments and exagerations of the highly censored disinformation that were in the few Spanish reports that were made public. Most of what was used was used by those who made up history were from the highly censored reports that were then sent from the Spanish courts to the Vatican since those were more often made public. The Spanish were very good at hiding the truth especially since it included the genocide of millions of American Natives. They did not want that even getting to the Vatican. Mainly what got out were well established dates of a few of his main attacks which were fabricated into fanciful stories involving galantry such as trading for spices in Indonesia when he really got those spices off of a Spanish ship that he had captured earlier. The information you got is all most all Spanish in origin. For some reason nobody in England could tell the truth about what happened or even ask about the truth from those who were on that expedition. I was able to find out only after I became a lady in waiting since I had to know what information I had to hide and what to direct the conversation away from. If a foreigner was to mention one of Drakes attacks I had to know whether to ignore the person, to defer them to someone else, to freeze them out, to act ignorant, to find out what the person knew, to immediately go tell the captain of the guards or to tell the person the truth. What I replied differed according to which of Drakes attacks was being asked about, the person who was asking and how many people I was talking with. That was a part (about 1/4) of a maid of honors job, and we had to look good while doing it, so I had to know the truth about what had happened. Since I am calling your history teacher a liar it's now pretty tense so I'll just use a funny 'proof' to assure you that what I say is the truth. When he started raiding the Spanish on the west coast of South America Drake renamed his flagship the Golden Hind. This was a first rate triple entendre but you were told only that it was named after the coat of arms of Sir Christopher Hatton (however his coat of arms had nothing on it that would have given rise to that name). However Golden Hind was still an outrageous triple entendre. First, it meant the last the Spanish would see of their gold would be the rear end of that ship as it left with it. The second meaning was that the Spanish made him into a very rich farmer or a bumkin (the Spanish called the English hind's or hinde's which was a derogatory word for both a farmer (like bumkin or hick) and a 'rear end' (it means the same as ass and that meant asshole). Third it mean that he was a 'very rich ass(hole)'. The last two were actually doubled with the other meaning of gold. To the Spnaish 'gold' meant royalty. It was Drakes way of letting the Spanish know that he was actually doing it all for Queen Elizabeth. So meanings four and five were 'royal hick' and 'royal ass(hole)'. I am not sure if the Spanish definition of gold as 'royal' is acceptable but since it sure had the desired efffect on the Spanish it certainly should be allowed in this case. Both definitions of hind can be found here in the middle English definitions of hind. There is also a play on words that was not another entendre. Since everyone knew that Drake was Queen Elizabeths favorite boyfriend and hind meant deer then it could also mean that he was the 'queen's dear'. This is clear isn't it? You got told a fib about where the name came from. That bit about it having to do with Christopher Hatton was a rumor that came about around five years after Drake got back and even Drake couldn't correct it or even just tell people it was a lie so it has stood for 400+ years as why his ship got named the 'Golden Hind'. It's the same thing with that was written and you were taught about Sir Francis Drake's around the world trip. The truth makes the history a lot more interesting doesn't it? It sure fills in a lot of blanks and answers questions like 'just how smart was Drake?' DRAKE WAS A GENIUS. Why am I telling you this? I HATE BEING A PARTY TO AN UNWARRANTED DECEPTION. This deception was warranted 400+ years ago but not now. It was never intended to end up deceiving people for this long. We were decieving about 12 million Spanish that wanted to enslave England. Keeping it all a secret was the deception. It was as if we were keeping the information a secret from other countries because Drake was going to go back to the west coast of America and raid again. That enslaved the Spanish to both continuous fear and having to build and build and build their defenses on the west coast of Central and South America. It f....d them up. Now about a half a billion people are enslaved to this deception who should know the truth. It's not the lack of knowing the truth which enslaves a person, that's just disatifying to the soul. It's believing a lie that creates the enslavement. In the case of Sir Francis Drake children should aspire to be as smart as he was. Not to want to be violent as exists now. When they grow up those same children assume that Francis came out on top since he was more violent than the Spanish when the truth was that he was more intelligent than any of them were. Nobody has ever caught on that it was his intelligence that won out except for you who has just now realized it was the reason. I think the Spanish had three warships on the west coast of South America, but you only heard about the one which Drake promptly captured. One other he sent to the bottom of the sea and the other he burned in port. Since he had no reason to leave quickly he stayed around for a year and a half systematically stripping the entire Spanish Empire on the west coast of America. The Spanish sent lots of ships to the rescue but for a year and a half they all had to turn back because of storms at the Strait of Magellan. Drake did not bother to tell them, that in order to kill him, he had just discovered that they could completely avoid the strait and easily just sail around the tip of South America. What did you think Francis Drake was doing for almost two years along the west coast of South America? He hit almost 100 Spanish towns, outposts and mines. He later related that he invaded 'every place with more than 10 Spanish dogs.' I read up on his expedition and I see the truth never got printed. The history books say that he left America after a few months to putter around Indonesia for a year and a half making promising commercial contacts, local political alliances and trading for spices Here There is no evidence that happened. If he did spend 1 1/2 years in Indonesia then the time was entirely wasted because not a single thing came of any of it. There were no aliances made, no treaties signed and no trade with Indonesia resulted. How much more of a waste could it have been? He would have been far better off scooting right by Indonesia after spending that nearly 2 years in America raiding and plundering the Spanish settlements methodically up and down the entire west coast. And that is exactly what he did. Now that I have all but called your history teacher a liar I had better tell you why Drake did not spend any time at all in Indonesia. The reason was two fold. One was that his ships were completely filled with gold and silver so he had no room for spices. However the real reason was time and survival. The Spanish had over 50 ships on the largest manhunt that had ever been organized looking for him. They had four ships just waiting for him at the Strait of Magellan and none waiting off the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. All the Catholic nations (and the Protestant ones because of the reward) were keeping an eye open for him and he had to get back before they figured out or were told that he was going around the world. If he had spent any significant time dwadaling on the way back the word would have gotten back to the Spanish and they would have moved those 50 ships across the Atlantic and nailed him. Most likely if it was summer at the Cape of Good Hope. The message that he was seen in Indonesia or elsewhere in Asia would have been carried by a much faster ship than his gold laden ones and the message would have taken a short cut across where the Suez Canal now is. Since Drake had to go all the way around Africa they would have been waiting for him and got him before he got home.  When he was returning he
usually traveled with his four ships in a
flying V (which I only remember it because it was told to me often but
I don't what it means) while flying a viscounts
viceroy's flag and pretending to
be a Spanish VIP. Like the ship that Viceroy of Venice sailed to
England on before Drake drew his sword on him which is on the other
side of that medal which you might wish to reconsider buying. With 3 escorts to protect the viceroy nobody even considered getting in his way. He went right along the coast of Portugal and Spain like that and hundreds of ships saw him before he ducked across the channel into English waters. He said that many of the upper echelon of the Spanish empire had their favorite personal ships which were customized the way they like but were out shape and laden with barnacles. They were happy with their old ships even though they only went at half speed. Everyone assumed that the largest of Drakes four ships was one such ship but the only reason it went so slow was because of all the stolen Spanish gold that Drake had on board three of the four ships. The other 4th ship had about 50 cannons all securely fastened directly to the deck and were only 6" apart that were covered over with tarps. They were all loaded, leveled and aimed for 50 yards. He had about 14 20+ pound cannons that would pivot and cover both sides but the others were too big at over 30 pounds each. He could bring to bear 35 cannons on either side which would provide a point blank broadside. That would have blown anything out of the water that wanted to board them but nobody ever tried. They were loaded with large grape shot, chain shot and some that had an early barbell shaped shot but no regular cannon balls. The cannons were all fused together so that one man would set it all off and within 3 seconds all the cannons would fire slicing the top off of the Spanish ship, demast it and kill everyone on the ship, even three decks down, everything in three seconds. The first gun would jump and it took 1/10 second for it come back in place, then the next gun would immediately fire, etc. Each time the ship would list a little more and so the next gun was pointed a little lower, etc for all 35 guns. The last cannon was depressed about 5 degrees more than the first. He could have fired the guns all at once but the recoil would have torn his own ship apart. Even four at once would have torn off the deck. This way 35 got fired in about three seconds and then he could immediately turn his ship and fire the other 15 heavy guns while the first 35 were being reloaded. He also had the regular compliment of ships cannons that he could adjust the range on. Drake tried that set up three times to get everything right. They only used full charges and all the same ammo for the last trial. They shot it into a jungle and cut back the under brush about 600 yards taking down twenty coconut trees as well and then tore apart two barrels that had taken them about a day and a half to move 300 and the other 600 yards in the jungle. They mowed the jungle flat for almost a half a mile. It was cut so flat that they were able to just walk straight in and retrieve the two barrels in less than two hours. Except over an hour of it was spent just finding the pieces to the first barrel. The jungle had been cut so cleanly that the men on the ship could watch the other men look for the pieces at either 300 or 600 yards.  He
had a few of the men just stand around on the deck dressed in a black
Spanish uniform that they found in Peru. They looked identical to the
clothes that the Spanish Inquisition wore so they took them. They were
similar to this one in Death of the Inquisitor (an action that I
thoroughly approved of). Then nobody even wanted
to talk with them so they never once had to speak Spanish. Later they found out that the Spanish Inquisition had changed to a different uniform five years before, but guess what? The old uniforms had ended up in Peru and they had been wearing the real Spanish Inquisition clothes. Even the Spanish were more familiar with those than the new ones so they worked really well. Francis Drake flew the flags of two other countries when he was east of the Indian Ocean where there were few Spanish ships. One was Dutch but also they raised the flag saying they had plague on board and not come near. The other flag was that of a very unfriendly person and I think a Moslem Ruler from perhaps the Bengal area or south towards Indonesia who had been outfitted with western ships in trade for their spices. If you sent messages to his ships and you were not an admiral then it was beneath his dignity to respond. Drake traveled about 1,000 miles that way. I think the history books also lost about 3 of the 4 ships and they are missing that 5 years of gold. The only reason Drake went west in the first place is because the Spanish thought that he was going to go east. Ariel was Drake in my play 'The Tempest'. Prospero was Queen Elizabeth of course and I was her daughter Miranda an heir to her throne. It took me about 2 mintues to remember it, 25 minutes to write and maybe about 25 minutes to find all those references. In the middle of reading that I got sidetracked because of those date disrepancies and had to clear that up which took about another 40 or 50 minutes. I did not sit for four days thinking of all the different things 'Golden Hind' could mean, Drake did that 430 years ago. I just remembered it, that's all. However, I was not on the expedition obviously so this was all told to me and it is only what I believed and not necessarily all true. I was young and naive, in my late teens but most of the sources were quite reliable since they were on board the expedition. Francis Drake was like a father figure and he would kiss my hand and bow like I was older and more than just your typical starry eyed teenage girl. It was one of Drakes crew that told me about the cannon ship and not Drake himself. I started to wonder if it might have been an exageration so I did the math. If you add the poundage of the 20 cannons that that were 30+ pounders and added 15 X 20 pounders and multiplied by 1.5 pounds since they reduced the charge for the closeness it meant they shot over 1,000 pounds of metal (in 3 seconds). That is the same amount of shrapnel that a modern 2,000 pound bomb produces but in all directions. Yet those big bombs produce a comparable amount of destruction. However the cannons were direction so about 1,500 claymore mines all at one time would be a better comparison since that is how many it would take to chuck out 1000 pounds of metal in one direction. I don't think anyone in their right mind would stand in the way of what I am talking about here. This is what happened when a good man laid his wealth and reputation on the line for Francis Drake. The money that was invested came back 47 fold. The Queen was astounded by the tremendous quantity of silver, gold and jewels Drake had taken from the Spanish. Because she had personally invested 1,000 crowns in the venture, she received 47,000 crowns in return. This was enough money to pay off England’s foreign debt as well cover future expenses of the country for several years. Here So it was very natural for us Cecil's to make huge investments in overseas trade and keep at it until we had put almost everything we had into building up England's empire through international trade. |
It was
worse than the Ambassador, it was the prince of a tiny country in
Italy, maybe 
Ursula was
a first time bit actress in the Queen Elizabeth play acting the part of
a Lady in Waiting 
None of
that would have happened without about a half year of William Cecil's
time and a lot of his money. He slapped the whole expedition together
by essentially stealing the supplies from where ever he could, and most
straight off the London dock, by claiming for the crown but putting his
own reputation and mark on the line. He had to run all those
supplies up to Liverpool, then somewhere on the east (I never could
find out where) but pretending they were sent to Calias and then on to
Plymouth where Drake was hiding. He changed ships at each port, to make
sure no one was able to follow the supplies to Drake. This is about when all those big stones appeared in Europe and all the royal crowns got filled with glittering rocks.
Also, they were one time we were trading silk for finished English cotton cloth at 2:1 by weight and I mean 2 pounds of silk for 1 pound of cotton cloth. For much better silk there was not much of a call in Asia so for awhile we could pick the very best silk at 1 1/4 pounds for every pound of finished cotton cloth. I think the silk involved joint ventures to Japan with the Dutch who were the only ones they allowed in. We exported half of all Japan's export of silk one year. Robert Cecil's father represented two area in Parliament that were famous for cotton production, one being Lincolnshire so we had the best cotton in the world.
Maybe I am thinking of the wool mills and we then took wool to India and traded for the cotton that we took to Japan. (I'm drawing a blank on what we got from Lincolnshire to trade. What did they make in Lincolnshire and the other place he represented in Parliament that other areas did not make and those two areas were famous for? The secret was that we told everyone, including the sailors, that we went to Indonesia or China and we might send one of four ships there but the rest went on to Yokohama, Japan or one other city on the west coast of Japan. We tried something nobody else did. We found out in spite of all the rhetoric about pride and Japanese isolation that the Tokugawa shogunate could be bought.*
Japan gets cold and silk is not very warm and wool is not comfortable. Neither were hemp and jute. Cotton was perfect for them.
When we first went to Japan they did not even know what animal the cotton came from. They asked us since all the fabrics they knew which were decent enough to wear were from animals such as fur and silk from moths.
The fourth shipment to Japan was 100% a cotton for silk exchange and nobody realized that since the ship was filled to it's maximum tonnage with cotton going to Japan that they would have twice the maximum tonnage the ship could carry coming back, of very valuable silk. By weight it was more costly than silver and they had to throw lots of it over board on the way back to keep from sinking. To maximize the amount they could return with they pulled the ship out of the water in Japan so the wood could dry and being lighter they could put more silk in. But every few days the wood would absorb over 500 pounds of water and they would have throw 500 pounds of silk overboard. They would throw the silk in the brink and one of the sailors would torture the owners and agents (including one of my nephews who we sent along) by yelling out 'we are throwing another 500 pounds of silver overboard'.
It was a big deal for me since I had asked to go along since I wanted to learn everything and become the first western woman to visit Japan. They said the ship had a no women policy. So I swore at them with the best London dock worker cuss words which I had picked up when I was a young girl and my first husband and I had a shipping company. When they got back I asked them why they didn't put the silk on the deck and wait for a storm to at least threaten them (but it was clear sailing) before they threw overboard around 10 tons of 'silver'.
Idiots. Before that with another investor we had controlling interest in the company but after that fiasco I ran the company with everyone's blessing, until I found someone I could train to do it right. For five years I had the support of the majority of voters. Then they wouldn't allow me to go to Japan because I was too valuable to the company. Also, warring on the seas had started and piracy had tripled.
For three years, from years 3 to 5 of my 'reign' our company showed higher profits from honest trade with Asia which left everyone happy than the Spanish stole from the native Americans who they worked to death by the thousands in those horrible Andes mines.
About that 'spinel' ruby, two people, one a baron and the other an agent for an unknown person had already offered me almost twice what I had expected to get from King James.**
Here is a thirty second history lesson of what went on.
Elector Frederick V of the Palatinate had married Elizabeth, 16-year-old daughter of King James I. They had two sons (Frederick Henry and Charles Louis) and a daughter (Elizabeth) and on Dec 17th 1619 had a third son (Rupert).
Frederick was a Protestant leader with Catholic neighbours - the Hapsburgs - whose leader had been elected as Emperor Ferdinand II. Ferdinand's predecessors had been tolerant of other religions but Ferdinand was not. The Protestants of Europe urged Frederick to challenge the crown and, thinking he would have support from his father-in-law King James I of England, decided to do so.
This sparked off the Thirty Years War in Europe.
Frederick took Elizabeth and their eldest son Prince Frederick Henry to Prague where he was crowned Emperor in November.
They ruled through the winter with little challenge and became known as the Winter King and Queen...but then in the spring...
And:
At the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of James I., to Frederic the Elector-palatine, her father loaded himself with six hundred thousand pounds' worth of jewels ; and the bride's white satin dress was embroidered with pearls and gems, and her coronet set in pinnacles of diamonds and pearls.
Among the MSS. belonging to the Rev. Walter Sneyd, of Keele Hall, county Stafford, is a receipt, dated April 9, 1612, signed by Elizabeth ofBohemia , for jewels delivered to her by Jacob Hardret, on this and some previous days. The total value was £325 and 25s. There were pendants and rings, some of diamonds and some of rubies.
Howell tells us, in one of his letters, that " Queen Anne (consort of James I.) hath left a world of brave jewels behind ; and although one Piers, an outlandish man, hath run away with many, she hath left all to the Prince (Charles I.) and none to the Queen of Bohemia." Here
Then there is this about the Bohemian Crown Jewels from the Prague Castle web site:
During the stormy period of the Thirty Years' War the (crown) jewel were alternately kept in a cellar in front of the chapel and in secret places outside Prague, for example, in the cellarage of the parish church at Ceske Budejovice. Here
Actually King Frederick had both the Crown and the sceptre with him. He must have returned the crown and someone must have made up that story about it being hidden in a chapel.
Elizabeth was King James' daughter and so loved by
all that
she was known as the Queen of Hearts. 
Just
one look at her picture
and I was flooded with those tremendous feelings that I once held for
her. She
was like a daughter and a friend but at a distance since she was
royalty. I held her in the greatest of respect as did everyone who ever
met her.
Why would they give the jewels to me? Where else would they have kept them? They had no safe place like an estate to keep them at. Since Elizabeth's father was my king she did not have to worry about any thing happening to them while I was alive..and that was the problem. I died and it must have been unexpectedly or Bohemia would rare stones and not pearls in their sceptre (see below).
They never sold a single one of the Bohemian Crown Jewels. If they had sold even a small one they would had a place to stash the rest of them safely but even though the jewels had been in his family for 100 years, since they had ruled for, I think, a hundred years, he would have no part it. Such was the ethics of the vast majority of Europes ruling class at that time. They took a bigger chance not selling one jewel and buying an estate (or leasing one) since it meant they had to live as homeless royalty. They had no place to live and her dad (King James) paid for them to travel from one host, or in case hostess, to the next. They lived for about 20 years out of their suitcases.
By
the way when you see an animal in a 1600's painting affectionately
posed
like in the above painting it's an indication that the person's kinship
with
animal's is of prime importance. When that is true then animal know it
and respond with affection like the dog is. It is not necessarily that
the dog is a special pet. If that were the case here then the dog would
be posed high up, next to her, like on a table or in her arms. (So it's
not a good idea to invite them on a hunt and you might ask if they are
vegetarians before having them over after a successful hunt when you
have killed, cooked and are serving up Bambi at your feast.)
Another excellent example of this which was done just to pull the
rug out from under-disirables is the secret of Queen Elizabeth's
famous Ermine Portrait.
An Imperial edict formally deprived him of the Palatinate in 1623. He lived the rest of his life in exile with his wife and family, mostly at the Hague, before passing away in Mainz in 1632. Here
The problem with this so called royal edict is that he was the King of Bohemia and only the king could issue such an order and he could not issue certain orders with his parliaments approval and the constitution did not allow for them, etc. (It would be exactly like President Bush visiting another country and getting a presidential order from the United States saying that he was fired.) Since the king is in charge of the royal jewels he was not going to send them to those who bent and twisted the laws like was done here since it was obvious they would just steal them.
He had succeeded his father King Frederick IV. With the crown jewels his claim was substantial. He was living in exile like many governments have done. He took exception to the the Catholic's taking over and illegally dismissing him.
As long as he had the crown jewels he had a claim to the throne and so did his widow when he died in 1632. (My death occurred in 1635-6.) However, it was only the last few years and after she was widowed that I ended up with the crown jewels.
Since Spain was the main driving force to take over Bohemia England was getting ready to go to war with Spain if they did not give back Bohemia to Frederick V I was pulling out my hair trying to work out a solution to prevent us from entering that war. I was in the middle of the insane affair. It was scary and it may have caused my death, prematurely. Since it had been quite a few years since England had been in a bad war everyone ignored the huge numbers of dead that would result from a war with the most powerful country in the world..Spain.
This is a book review which provides some information about the situation including England's involvement in King Frederick V's attempts to regain his throne. (I need to see what that book says.)
They
are probably the stones that were in the sceptre and maybe those of the
orb of Bohemia. When the 30 years war started they separated the crown
and sceptre for safe keeping. Each had four times the jewels of the
other small European Nations so if one got lost they would have enough
jewels to make an entire set. The
crown, called the St. Wenceslas crown, was most likely made
in 1345 of gold plate. It has the form of a coronet consisting of four
parts, each of which terminates with a big lily. The individual parts
are joined at the top by two curved pieces on which the decorations of
an older jewel (coronet or belt) are fastened. At the place where the
curved pieces intersect there is a gold cross with a sapphire cameo. In
all there are 19 sapphires, 44 spinels, 1 ruby, 30 emeralds and 22
pearls on the crown. The total weight of the crown without the parts
made of material is 2,475.3 grammes. It is always exhibited on a
special cushion of red velvet with the embroidered Czech emblems of
1867.The sceptre of the first half of the 16th century is 670 millimetres in length, its weight being 1.013 grammes. It is gold and decorated with 4 sapphires, 5 spinels, 66 pearls and hammered and enamel ornaments. The orb of the first half of the 16th century is also made of gold. It is 220 millimetres in height. On the lower hemisphere there is a hammered relief with scenes from Genesis, while on the upper one there are scenes from the life of King David. In all 8 sapphires, 6 spinels and 31 pearls were used for its decoration. Here A country's royal treasures always have the same kinds of jewels. If the crown has 2/3 diamonds topped with a large ruby then the orb and sceptre will also be 2/3 diamonds each topped with a smaller ruby. However without the emeralds and the ruby or spinel that I have/had the Bohemian sceptre and orb do not match the crown at all which has remain unchanged. "It was forbidden to change this crown, even by law by Charles IV. Since the 14th century it has stayed practically unchanged. The secrets of St. Wenceslas' crown  Because of the law
they could not use stones from the crown for any purpose or change it
in any way. When it came time to making the sceptre and orb (early 1500's and 100 years before the jewels were removed) they decided to update it and used a modern design. The heavy predominance of the 66 pearls (and probably the enamel ornaments) on the sceptre were perhaps a less expensive replacement for the jewels that got lost when I unexpectedly died. I may have the stones from the orb also.  Maybe
they took the stones that were in the orb to replace those in the
sceptre. I recall that I had a dream a couple weeks ago and in it they had taken one stone from the crown to pay for all the others that they had to replace. That was against their laws They put small pearls it appears in the settings for the jewels. Those 200 carats of diamonds (and the 400-500 carats of others stones) that I had probably fit right in where those pearls now are. What of the 4 large stones which I think are sapphires though they are not nearly as large as the ones in the crown? Those could be mine. I did not die poor. I recall that my wealth rivalled that of Elizabeth's when she died. This painting of the king has him with a different crown, sceptre and orb.  The replica of
the St. Vaclav crown brings to mind the historic epoch during which
Karlstejn served, as the state treasury, to house the Czech coronation
jewels and important documents from the Czech archives. The St. Vaclav
crown is decorated with 20 pearls and 96 precious stones, emeralds,
sapphires and spinels. In the centre of the front side there is a large
ruby. Specialists manifest particular admiration for the sapphires.
There are 19 on the crown and 6 of them rank among the largest in the
world. HereI have four huge sapphires that are probably the largest in the world. (I think they are green stones. Half the time I don't even know the words that I am using. I keep using the word rubies when I mean spinels since that is what we used to call them. [When I see colors in my memories of that life they are not always true. It's may be that I was color blind in certain regions but I think men and women actually see colors differently! I think yellows were affected most. If you'll notice, most of what I did in that life including my black and white sketches, my play writing and even the maze did not involve any color at all. When I recall from memory a certain color it may have been a different color and type of stone so I just 'turn off the color' when I recall them. I also think green emeralds and blue sapphires looked the same to me. I just read about colorblindness in Wikipedia and I may not have been color blind at all. It seems that men and women may see colors completely differently as the X chromosome makes for different cone possibilities. As a man I just may not be able to decipher the colors that I remember seeing as a woman and put them in categories that even exist in my brain. Reds are the same but many of the other colors just don't seem to readily match. There is a lot of information written about how people taste things differently since there are different kinds of taste receptors. It follows to reason that vision would be the same since there are differences in the cones.) Men needed a better response to greens and browns for hunting where as women probably needed more discrimination in discerning flesh tones ] Another fact is that a nation's sceptre usually held 1/2-1/4 the value of the stones in the crown and the orb from 1/2 to 1/10 the value. Both combined with the other crown jewels, like in the sword of justice and rings usually added up to about 3/4 of the value of the crown stones.  However, the stones I have are worth?? A lot more than those that are now in the sceptre. Neither the stones in the Bohemian sceptre or the orb are now worth 1/50 those in the crown. When the crown, sceptre and orb made it back to Bohemia of course the sceptre (and orb) were missing all the jewels. This coronation painting of Frederick V shows the sceptre and orb without any jewels. My guess is that the new rulers were stuck to explain what had happened to the jewels in the sceptre and orb so they told people there never were any in the sceptre and orb. Then they had a painter removing them from this and probably all the other paintings that they had access to which showed them. My guess is that there are others but they were change by different painters so the sceptre and orbs are also different. In any case they wont look like those above which had been used since the 'early 16th century' when they were made. This a larger version of the painting and it is easy to see that both the sceptre and the orb are completely lacking in any and all jewels. Then some time later they got some jewels from somewhere along with a bunch of cheaper pearls and viola you have the sceptre as it now appears. That's big time confirmation, |
I also left my two
big strings of pearls hidden with those jewels when I
died and I want those back too. My daughter is wearing them in this
painting on the right.
