Trade Secrets

[macausland]

hvered

The Hartlepool church of St Hilda's was built by the Brus family.

The parish magazine of this church has a quote from a representative of Hartlepool council who confirms that it was once an island.

'Mr Robbins informed us that originally Hartlepool was an island and he compared it
to Lindisfarne. As we all were aware, he pointed out that Hartlepool was at one time
a holiday resort and visitors came to take the spa water on the Town Wall, to walk
the promenade and see the rocks. Apparently there were fantastic grottoes and
caves which disappeared when the promenade was built. He discussed the distance
the rocks extended at low tide and wondered if, at one time, houses were on that area. He said it is the only coastline where there is magnesium limestone.
St Hilda’s church was built in 1190 by donations from the de Brus family. The son of
that family was in conflict with the Bishop of Durham. Hartlepool was, in fact, a small
village and it was unusual for such a large church to be constructed for the small
community. Although a Charter was granted, there were no guilds.'

http://www.hartlepool-sthilda.org.uk/Ma ... Colour.pdf

The church was built on the site of a much older Saxon monastery and St Hilda was there for some years before going to Whitby.

[Mick Harper]

According to TME St Hilda and the Brus family belonged to the same organisation though living several hundred years apart.

[macausland]

mick harper


'According to TME St Hilda and the Brus family belonged to the same organisation though living several hundred years apart.'

I must have missed that one. Where is it and what was the organisation?

[Mick Harper]

Just follow the clues. After the Romans, the 'Megalithics' aka the Druids re-colonised Britain from Ireland, where the Romans hadn't reached. This, the Celtic Renaissance. featured priors and prioresses who established 'monasteries' all around Scotland and down the east coast of England, including the monastery at Whitby.

These 'saints' have various attributes (detailed in TME) but the one that features Hilda is close association with the mythic founding of writing in their respective languages. Hence Hildie is the sponsor of Caedmon, the composer of the first English poem and/or the earliest piece of English writing. Caedmon of course is just the British avatar of Cadmus, the supposed inventor of the Greek alphabet.

Whitby then becomes the site of the Synod of Whitby where the local political ascendancy (now the Anglo-Saxons) are hoodwinked into taking over i.e. paying for the unimportant territorial church (the bishops) while the monasteries under the abbots and abbesses continue operating the monasteries independently.

When Rome starts taking over the monasteries as well and melding them with the episcopates, the Megalithic 'Normans' suddenly appear and take over the whole business in England and start a completely new intellectual course. They eventually take on Rome itself by invading southern Italy, and start up the universities to take over the functions of the monasteries everywhere in Western Europe (except some special cases eg the Cistercians). They also start the Templars to get mercantile trade going.

When 'Roman' resurgence re-occurs and, for example, the Templars are closed down, why the Normans have got Brucey and co ready, able and willing right out there back in the heartland of Scotland to keep the faith flying. And magically these handful of Templar/Norman/Megalithic knights are apparently perfectly capable of a) beating the greatest military power in Europe (ie England) and indefinitely ruling Scotland. And then England (1603). And then the world (1815). I think that brings us up to date.

[macausland]

Blimey, as some might say.

It makes me so happy that my ancestors weren't 'harried' in vain.

If David Icke knew all this I think he might leave the lizards and Rothschilds alone.

Right then, I'm going out to follow the clues. I may be some time.

[Boreades]

Whether they taught the crows to read or not is another question.

Especially for Mick, here's something we really need to get a copy of.

The Problem Solvers
Are crows the ultimate animal problem solvers?
BBC documentary, commentary by Chris Packham

This is a four-minute clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01r0md3

The full episode has lots more of clever crows outwitting humans.
Next repeat on: Wed 12 Mar 2014 09:00

Director's blog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03tt7j ... nimal-mind

[macausland]

This goes to prove what I've thought for a long time.

Stonehenge was built by crows.

They tied ropes round the stones and got flocks of starlings to pull on the ropes and set the stones in place.

[Boreades]

According to TME St Hilda and the Brus family belonged to the same organisation though living several hundred years apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartlepool_Abbey

Built in the early Saxon style, it was likely a walled enclosure of simple wooden huts surrounding a church. It was a joint-house of both monks and nuns, presided over from 640-649 by Hieu, the first female abbess to ever be put in charge of such an institution.

This was no ordinary Abbey.

[hvered]

It's the Headland, not the abbey, that's of interest... the headland used to be a tidal island, it was known as Old Hartlepool but apparently preferred the name of The Headland to emphasise its separateness. It's claimed by scholars that the Anglo-Saxons called it Stag Island. They seem to not know their harts from their antlers.

[macausland]

Hartlepool became 'Old' after the building of West Hartlepool in the nineteenth century.

Outside Hartlepool is the village of Hart. The whole area was known as Hartness, the last lord of which was Robert de Brus.

There's a drowned forest off the coast which it is claimed was where the deer strutted their stuff.

According to wiki the Hart church of St Mary Magdalene was the mother church of St Hilda's. Hart was famous for its witches and other 'wise women' so there may have been a tradition of women seers long before the nuns took up shop.

The Brus family are supposed to have originated in the Cotentin Peninsula and took their name from their hometown of Brix.

Strangely enough the Vikings who took over that area were defeated by Alan, king of Brittany. The descendants of whom became the Stewarts or Stuarts in England and Scotland.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... mpid=42630