Woody Saxon Weald
Had there been no Norman Conquest,
no stone Albion of The Blessed.
They preferred to build wooden,
no Roman street, but village den.
For Seaxe, Mead Hall and Beer Hall
became the be and the end all.
Grunt. Snore. Cannot drink much more.
Find me a harvest blond hair whore.
Will she dance on the village green ?
and her thegn make a bloody scene.
Old English meadu, or medu
true, Saxons, mid-5th century.
January 28th
Arundel Castle
In 1067, Roger
de Montgomery, First Earl
of Arundel founded the Motte-
and-Bailey plan Norman Castle
soon after The Conquest, The Rape
his from William.
He married Mabel
de Delleme, lands in Normandy.
Besieged by Henry The First, gone
to Adeliza of Louvain,
widow, and William d'Aubigny.
Dukes Of Norfolk Sonnet
In 1555, Mary
Fitzalan married one
Thomas Howard, the 4th Duke
of Norfolk, de jure Castle
historically Catholick.
1571, The Duke
took part in The Ridolfi Plot,
to put Queen Mary on the throne.
He was executed for Treason.
In 1660, the twenty
third Earl of Arundel had all
restored, The Fitzalan Chapel,
built 1390, even
in the wester ground of The Park.
January 26th
Traitor King
He who flirted with the Devil,
inhaled the stench of evil.
The reaction : total fury,
death by Privy Council Jury.
Elizabeth the First, traitor
to Rome due executioner.
Still howling in pain, the martyr
burning staked, at The Priory
the lamentation without end
by River Fleet, curving a bend.
January 29th
Pagan To Roman
Chichester Cathedral, Norman,
replaced the Suth Seaxe Abbey
Church, rather block squat at Selsey
on The Manhood Peninsular.
St. Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton
now thought to be the location
though some think it underwater.
'The Isle of Sea Calves' wrote Bede
of Selsey, island of seals
the Abbey founded 681.
Nota Bene (Bede)
The savage Kingdom of Sussex
hung 'the last not to be pagan'.
From Kent, advanced the Christian
after the texting St. Augustine
with a Party, avoided wrecks.
January 27th
Antecedent Sonnet
Joan my mother, in fact a De Stock
of Caen, Normandy : the name stuck.
She, cold, frankly good at hauteur.
Temp. St John, the first known, Peter.
Arms : sable. a demi-lion ramp. ernm.
Crest : a dove, wings extended, in mouth
olive branch. FORTIS QUI INSONS
the motto in Armory, Burkes.
One Mary married Comte de Vaudes,
Normandy, bred de Thomas Stokes.
Quite sadly, we lost Hean Castle ;
bred Francis Griffin (Rabelais,
introducer of William Blake.)
Insons guiltless, to make wrong quake.
January 28th
Pandering
The Devil is riding high, nigh
the end with none left to sigh.
Speech gone, nothing left high and dry.
All The Brunt wanted was to buy.
He, neuter, girl became a guy.
Money ease left nothing to try.
After Alexander Pope
Adoration, be with reason
respecting every season
and great building with proportion,
rapture seagulls in The Garden.
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