LL certainly stacked the deck in this one. Shakespeare, King Arthur,
Luke Hutton, poor Doll Barthram, the White Hart, St Paul's Walk, The
Devil's Dyke, Richard Burbage, Richard Field, Christopher Newport,
Gosnold, Hakluyt, Leland, London Bridge, The Battle of LePanto, and
reference to the city of Zutphen in the UPN.It always intrigues me when LL mentions some unique person, place or
point in history that the history books have long neglected or perhaps
just ignored in some small way. Of the soldier/poet Sir Philip Sidney,
who lost his life at Zutphen, it was written that "When that unfortunate
stand was to be made before Zutphen to stop the issuing out of the
Spanish Army from a streict, with what alacrity soever he went to
actions of honour... the weather being misty, fell unawares upon the
enemy, who had made a strong stand to receive them, near to the very
walls of Zutphen, their muskets layed in ambush within their own
trenches....An unfortunate hand brake the bone of Sir Philip's thigh with
a musket shot. The horse he rode upon, was rather furiously choleric
than bravely proud, and so forced him to forsake the field...he called for
drink, which was presently brought him; but as he was putting the
bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along, who had eaten
his last at the same Feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle.
Which Sir Philip perceiving, took it from his head, before he drank, and
delivered it to the poor man, with these words, Thy necessity is greater
than mine." Sir Philip succumbed to his wounds and these deeds were
recorded by Sir Fulke Greville in October of 1586 a month following the
battle at Zutphen. King Arthur has always intrigued me and after much research have
arrived at the same conclusion as LL, that Arthur's reign took him from
the Breton shores of France. Its now known that Arthur fought 13
battles to unify Britain and was killed at the 13th. Some scholars have
searched for Camelot by eliminated those areas that it could not have
been in and not too few believe that it lies just inside of Scotland, but
my own thinking is that it lies instead in Brittany in France, perhaps not
too far from Plouguerneau. The round wooden houses of the Celts after
the departure of the Romans would have formed well about a round
table...
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