© 2021 Provincial Grand Court of Wessex
!!! THE THIRD WAVE OF CAPTURE !!!!!!
Dear Brethren of Wessex
On Tiwesdæg (Tuesday) the twelfth day of
Haligmonað the Saxon name for September in the
great year of two thousand and seventeen, a brave
band of warriors from the Court of King Cerdic
numbered eighty-two in the records of our noble
king Æthelstan, Rex Britannicus, rode feverishly
from the ancient Devonian market town of
Hunytown to Malmesbury the oldest borough in
England to join an assembly of warlords within
the local Court numbered one hundred.
The members of the Malmesbury Court greeted their visiting warriors with much good ceremony and,
when formal Court matters were at an end, one of the Elders of the Court of King Cerdic, scribe
Christopholus of Wilmington, declared that the document held in his possession confirmed that the
required number of warriors were present and could legally mount a challenge to remove the
ancient and sacred Bee-hive from Malmesbury and return it to its rightful place of construction in
Hunytown.
The Court of King Cerdic’s leader, a fearless warrior called Roburt of Colyton, stood and demanded
possession of the ancient and sacred Bee-hive that was safely held within the Court. As an offer of
appeasement he promised to release the inhabitants, declaring them inferior to Colyton bees, but
would retain the honey in case it was any good!
He was accompanied by David - D’Whiskers of Exmouth the Bee-Hive’s creator and six other noble
warriors all heavily armed for battle.
After much hearty feasting, drinking and merriment, the noble warriors from Hunytown returned
with their trophy to be kept safe from marauding vagrants and scurvy knaves to await the
challenge from another Court to claim its capture in the true spirit of visiting.
W&EmBro Chris Hallett ProvEmGPrior
12 September 2017
The names of those intrepid mercenaries from Court of King Cerdic No. 82
W.Bro. R.F. Summers (Master) W.Bro. H.C. Jaggers (IPM)
W. & Em. Bro. C.D. Hallett (Secretary) Bro. P.C. Bailey (S.W.)
R.T. Turner (J.W.) D.S. Perkins MBE , KSM (S.D.)
Bro. J.M. Furneaux-Gotch (Member)
© 2021 Provincial Grand Court of Wessex
THE THIRD WAVE OF CAPTURE
Dear Brethren of Wessex
On Tiwesdæg (Tuesday) the twelfth day of
Haligmonað the Saxon name for September in the
great year of two thousand and seventeen, a brave
band of warriors from the Court of King Cerdic
numbered eighty-two in the records of our noble
king Æthelstan, Rex Britannicus, rode feverishly
from the ancient Devonian market town of
Hunytown to Malmesbury the oldest borough in
England to join an assembly of warlords within
the local Court numbered one hundred.
The members of the Malmesbury Court greeted their visiting warriors with much
good ceremony and, when formal Court matters were at an end, one of the Elders of
the Court of King Cerdic, scribe Christopholus of Wilmington, declared that the
document held in his possession confirmed that the required number of warriors were
present and could legally mount a challenge to remove the ancient and sacred Bee-
hive from Malmesbury and return it to its rightful place of construction in
Hunytown.
The Court of King Cerdic’s leader, a fearless warrior called Roburt of Colyton, stood
and demanded possession of the ancient and sacred Bee-hive that was safely held
within the Court. As an offer of appeasement he promised to release the
inhabitants, declaring them inferior to Colyton bees, but would retain the honey
in case it was any good!
He was accompanied by David - D’Whiskers of Exmouth the Bee-Hive’s creator
and six other noble warriors all heavily armed for battle.
After much hearty feasting, drinking and merriment, the noble warriors from
Hunytown returned with their trophy to be kept safe from marauding vagrants
and scurvy knaves to await the challenge from another Court to claim its capture
in the true spirit of visiting.
W&EmBro Chris Hallett ProvEmGPrior
12 September 2017
The names of those intrepid mercenaries from Cout of King Cerdic No. 82
W.Bro. R.F. Summers (Master) W.Bro. H.C. Jaggers (IPM)
W. & Em. Bro. C.D. Hallett (Secretary) Bro. P.C. Bailey (S.W.)
R.T. Turner (J.W.) D.S. Perkins MBE , KSM (S.D.)
Bro. J.M. Furneaux-Gotch (Member)
