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After Word
In the years which passed after this story my thoughts ever came back to it.
You will not be surprised that, over time, I explored the world of Spirit and Reincarnation. I renewed my interest in the Society for Psychical Research and I attended events at the head-quarters of the Spiritualist National Union; eventually coming to lead a Spiritualist circle.
Others have found ‘Grail quests’ unrewarding (at least, according to the public record). I allowed that to fade and the ‘Nine Worthies’ to merge with the ‘Board of Judgement,’ of which I still remain conscious. The members of the board have not done with me; but even without them, Edward was truly the start of my spiritual awareness.
Angharad passed from this life suddenly, to my very great distress, but even a new marriage would not cover the questions Edward posed me, and it remained to resolve the undying problems of the last chapter.
With so very much more experience of psychic investigation, at last I came to the terrible wrong which underlay and brought about the problems of Edward’s life. That wrong was the abstraction of ‘the Princes in the Tower’ and the usurpation and killing of Richard III by Henry Tudor and his fellow traitors. The chief architect of these events was John Morton, bishop of Ely; later Archbishop, Lord Chancellor and Cardinal. Behind him was King Louis XI of France and a threat to England of which History has been thankfully oblivious.
I confronted Morton, who only appeared somewhat in Edward’s story, and King Louis. I wrote a book about the actions I took, and to find what I did you will have to read it, ‘The Necromancer.’
It leaves me a question, have I done enough to leave Edward finally at peace? At Stansted Hall, this summer, I was able to pose that question to a medium for whom I have great respect; from the perspective of an investigator he has the advantage that he had not read Edward and nor had I discussed the story with him. He only came to the edge of it, and that fresh and unprejudiced.
The medium’s answer was positive but less than complete.
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List of Hyperlinks
Brief Introduction to the EBook
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INTRODUCTION
A Genealogy of Edward
Edward Stafford website
Medieval Music Links
Medieval Chant of the Templars. Antiphona: Salve Regina
Music for a Knight - Ambrosian Chant
15th century English Music - Alleluia : "A Nywe Werke"
Quene Note
Sumer Is Icumen In
Chapter 1 - The Beginning
Penshurst Place
Duke of Buckingham
Bishop Morton
Thomas à Kempis
Chapter 3 - Edward
Lady Katherine
Chapter 4 - The Way of the Word
Giordano Bruno
Chapter 5 - A Kaleidoscope
King’s mother
The Presence of Other Worlds
Chapter 6 - The Kings of England
Henry IV’s crimes
Sir Henry Stafford
Edward IV was not legitimate
Dominic Mancini
Polydore Vergil
Sir Thomas More
Chapter 7 - Marbles and Hawks
King Henry
Book of St. Albans
Chapter 8 – Edward and Eadie
Chapter 9 – Christmas
Wynkyn de Worde
‘Le Morte D’Arthur’
quest for the Holy Grail
Chapter 10 – Peterborough
Julian of Norwich
Chapter 11 – Changes
Akashic Script
Chapter 12 – Wales
Sir Reginald Bray
Sir Rees ap Thomas
Vaughans of Tretower
Chapter 13 - Unhappy Differences
Alnwick
Chapter 14 – Separation
Stafford castle
the Knight of the Swan
Chapter 15 – Sarah
Ericksonian metaphors
Chapter 16 - Penshurst and Cambridge
Bosworth
Buckingham College
Chapter 17 – Abigail
Chapter 18 – Celebration
William Caxton
Chapter 19 - Growing Up
Sir George Buck
William Stanley
Jasper of Hatfield
Chapter 20 - Father Joseph
Richard Wingfield
Chapter 21 – Meanings
Sweating Sickness
Chapter 22 – Goodbye
E.S.R.C.
spirit guides
board of judgement
Chapter 23 - Of Life and Death
Templars’ church
Cornishmen’s revolt
Chapter 24 – Lincoln
cathedral
Nine Worthies
Chapter 25 – Endings
Thornbury
Alianore
Chapter 26 - The Box
‘dolorous stroke’
battle of Hopton Heath
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Note from the Author
Joseph Campbell
After Word
The Necromancer