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Rosemary Griggs
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Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.social@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialOriginally designed for both Sir William Waller and his wife, royalist soldiers defaced his effigy after he lost Bath to Royalist forces in 1643 Sir William married twice more and is buried in Tothill Street Chapel, Westminster.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialOriginally designed for both Sir William Waller and his wife— royalist soldiers defaced his effigy after he lost Bath to Royalist forces in 1643 Sir William married twice more and is buried in Tothill Street Chapel, Westminster.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialBath Abbey. Alabaster memorial to Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Reynell of Forde, Newton Abbot, Devon who died in childbirth in 1633. She was 2nd wife of Parliamentary general William Waller.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialWhat did Kate Astley look like? Read more in Notes from Devon’s Tudor Time Traveller.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialWindow installed in 1949 at Bath Abbey commemorating the 973 coronation of King Edgar. St. Dunstan (Archbishop of Canterbury) and St. Oswald carried out the ceremony which became the template for all future coronations.
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@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialI’m afraid I don’t know!
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialThank you Tony. 😊
@tonyriches.bsky.socialReposted by @ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialSpecial Guest Post by Rosemary Griggs, Author of Queen Elizabeth I's Governess: The Real Kat Ashley tonyriches.blogspot.com/2026/10/spec... @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social #Elizabethan #Tudors #History
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialHappy Friday! This dahlia was very late flowering in my Devon garden this year, but is making up for lost time now.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialThat’s interesting — thank you.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialThank you Exe Valley U3A for welcoming me to Tiverton yesterday for my talk, An Audience with the Lady Katherine .
It was especially lovely to meet Margaret Rice, the author of this book about merchant families of 16th century Exeter. So that’s my weekend reading sorted!
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialLocal red sandstone Norman font at St Peter’s Church, Stoke Fleming with marks from a hinge and bolt used to lock the cover to prevent consecrated water being stolen and used in witchcraft.
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialWordle 1,937 2/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lucky guess today!
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialDoor with date inscribed in the lintel on the north side of Prystyn House, near St Andrews Church., Plymouth Originally built for merchant Thomas Yogge in 1498, the date reflects 17th century remodelling.
@tre.radioReposted by @ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialOn Lifestyles with Selina MacKenzie - right now! @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social on 'Queen Elizabeth I's Governess: The Real Kat Ashley', and Maegan Brown with 'Beautiful Boards: 50 Amazing Snack Boards for Any Occasion'
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialI enjoyed chatting about Kat Ashley (Kate Astley) on Talk Radio Europe
today.
www.talkradioeurope.com/on_demand/
Open link, go to 7 October between 1400 - 1500, press play and go to 24 minutes into the programme.
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@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialTime for something from Devon, and what could be better than the wonderful pulpit with biblical scenes and lots of animals carved in 1891 by the Pinwill sisters for St Peter’s Church, Stoke Fleming.
📷 2025
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialSunlight falling on chequered stone floor at St Mary’s Church, Fawsley, Northamptonshire.
