[MR] BBC: More About Durham Cathedral

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends,

I hope you won't fault me for concentrating too much on one topic, but my
lady found this very interesting 2017 story about Durham Cathedral:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-39288707 .

Durham has many fascinating bits of information mentioned here, such as the
Bishop's throne being made 1" taller than the Pope's on purpose, or the
rather sexist line in the floor limiting how far women could go in the
cathedral, apparently even queens.

Although it is an English Civil War story and past our era, my direct
ancestor Dr. Patrick Napier was believed to have been held prisoner here in
1650 and 1651 after the disastrous Battle of Dunbar. He was apparently
deported to Virginia, but unlike the Royalist common soldiers who were sold
as indentured servants, as a gentleman and surgeon Patrick was sent as a
free man. He is the common ancestor for most Napier descendants in the U.S.
Patrick Napier even rates one of those metal historic markers almost nobody
ever reads just outside Colonial Williamsburg:
http://sevamarkers.umwblogs.org/2012/04/03/patrick-napier-colonial-surgeon-w-41/
.

Yours Aye,

Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆