Comments by "Caius Martius Coriolanus" (@Jeffhowardmeade) on "The Hidden Mysteries Buried Under A Grand Essex Mansion | Time Team | Timeline" video.

  1.  @margarethoskins6625  And yet his wife asked to be buried near him in Hackney when she died in 1612. In going to take her word over a distant relative many years later.
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  2. People tore them down and reused the materials for new buildings.
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  3. No, he isn't. That's a load of bee ess.
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  4. Fact check time. Edward De Vere was not a great poet. He was mediocre at best. He was not a playwright. He is said to have created "enterludes" (skits), and to have been among the "best for comedy". He was not a shareholder in The Globe. He briefly held a lease on a theater in Blackfriars, but not the one later owned by Shakespeare. He could not have been buried at Colne Priory because he had already sold it, along with all of the other estates he inherited.
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  5. The parts Cecil took wouldn't donmuch more than cover the cost of raising him, and none of his properties were taken. He started selling those off after suing his livery, in order to fund his lavish lifestyle. He DID lose a few properties during his period of wardship which were his father's by grant of knight service. In other words, they actually belonged to Queen Elizabeth and were hers to grant to whomever would pay her the most for them. That wasn't a twelve-year-old boy. Oxford wasn't terribly savvy. This is a guy who dropped £3,025 on the third Martin Frobisher expedition based on seeing a bunch of fool's gold brought back by the second expedition. He sank money into the lease of a theater in Blackfriars to which the leaser did not have clear title. He was tasked with the defense of Harwich when the Spanish Armada was on its way. He thought it beneath him and quit. When he asked to be put in charge of tin mining, claiming he could increase revenues, he was turned down. Nobody thought this guy was competent to run a vital industry like tin. Instead they gave him an annual dole payment. Cecil finally bought Hedingham -- Oxford's birthplace and the seat of his Earldom -- and placed it in trust for Oxford's daughters. There's no evidence that Cecil paid any less than retail for it. Oxford's own servant undervalued Colne Priory and then bought it himself through a straw buyer. This is how one of the greatest patrimonies in England was frittered away.
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  6. Yet Westminster has no record of it.
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  7. Or have a really good laugh.
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  8.  @ArkForTheFlood  I know. Laughing at lunatics and gullible imbeciles isn't nice, but I can't help myself.
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  9. Not even close. He continued to sell off ancestral estates throughout his 20s and early 30s to support his lavish lifestyle until finally he ran out of them.
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  10. How about you provide some evidence first, and not Waugh's laughable rearranging of letters until they say what he wants them to.
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  11. That doesn't make for compelling TV.
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  12.  @UtubeAW  You're welcome to do that. It's pretty much all you can do, without evidence.
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  13.  @UtubeAW  Try that one more time, but in Coherentese?
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  14. You fundamentally misunderstand the term "evidence".
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  15.  @margarethoskins6625  Neat trick, considering they weren't around then.
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  16. I'll take crackpot notions with no evidence for $100, Alex.
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  17. Clear as mud and only convincing to morons.
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  18. The only way for any contagion to still be found in an old grave would be if it were continually frozen.
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  19. That's called a "sewer".
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