ARTICLE: The R3 Society Officially Responds to "Slab Not Tomb" Decis

The Richard III Society has delivered its formal response to Leicester
Cathedralýs decision to mark the kingýs final resting place with a slab and
not a tomb.

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Richard-III-Society-responds-slab-tomb-decision/story-18904503-detail/story.html



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Thanks Wednesday...And what a good response it is....Eileen

--- In , Wednesday McKenna <wednesday.mac@...> wrote:
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> The Richard III Society has delivered its formal response to Leicester
> Cathedral's decision to mark the king's final resting place with a slab and
> not a tomb.
>
> http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Richard-III-Society-responds-slab-tomb-decision/story-18904503-detail/story.html
>
>
>
> --
>
> - *Friend:* Are you upset about the outcome of the election?
> - *Me:* I'm upset about the outcome of the War of the Roses.
>
>
>
>

Thank you, Wednesday. I hope it is published on every on-line newspaper site
in England - and anywhere else where Richard matters. What a huge pity that
getting it into the actual newspapers would be prohibitively expensive,
unless they choose to report it, of course. Noise has to be made, and this
is very elegant, persuasive noise. Classy stuff.

Sandra

-----Original Message-----
From: Wednesday McKenna
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 7:05 PM
To:
Subject: ARTICLE: The R3 Society Officially
Responds to "Slab Not Tomb" Decision

The Richard III Society has delivered its formal response to Leicester
Cathedral's decision to mark the king's final resting place with a slab and
not a tomb.

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Richard-III-Society-responds-slab-tomb-decision/story-18904503-detail/story.html

If the Society have publicly stated that " Richard III would have planned for a table tomb in a separate chantry chapel as his successor, Henry VII did in Westminster Abbey", have they totally not twigged that he was spending a huge amount of money at York to provide exactly that? And now they are ignoring that as a likely place he might have wished to have been interred - a huge chantry in York Minster, which required not just 100 priests but building work as well...

Col



--- In , "SandraMachin" <sandramachin@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Wednesday. I hope it is published on every on-line newspaper site
> in England - and anywhere else where Richard matters. What a huge pity that
> getting it into the actual newspapers would be prohibitively expensive,
> unless they choose to report it, of course. Noise has to be made, and this
> is very elegant, persuasive noise. Classy stuff.
>
> Sandra
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wednesday McKenna
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 7:05 PM
> To:
> Subject: ARTICLE: The R3 Society Officially
> Responds to "Slab Not Tomb" Decision
>
> The Richard III Society has delivered its formal response to Leicester
> Cathedral’s decision to mark the king’s final resting place with a slab and
> not a tomb.
>
> http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Richard-III-Society-responds-slab-tomb-decision/story-18904503-detail/story.html
>

Yes, it's a good response as far as it goes, but I think they should also
deal with the "how would we fit a table tomb in our itty-bitty little
cathedral" argument.



If Richard were to be interred in the Cathedral under a slab, in my humble
opinion we would have the worst of both worlds. The only good thing would be
that everyone on all sides of the issue would have something to be unhappy
about!



Loyaulte me lie,



Johanne



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Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 3:23 PM
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Responds to "Slab Not Tomb" Decision





Thanks Wednesday...And what a good response it is....Eileen

--- In
<mailto:%40yahoogroups.com> , Wednesday McKenna
<wednesday.mac@...> wrote:
>
> The Richard III Society has delivered its formal response to Leicester
> Cathedral's decision to mark the king's final resting place with a slab
and
> not a tomb.
>
>
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Richard-III-Society-responds-slab-tomb
-decision/story-18904503-detail/story.html
>
>
>
> --
>
> - *Friend:* Are you upset about the outcome of the election?
> - *Me:* I'm upset about the outcome of the War of the Roses.
>
>
>
>

Excellent response.

--- In , "EileenB" <cherryripe.eileenb@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Wednesday...And what a good response it is....Eileen
>
> --- In , Wednesday McKenna <wednesday.mac@> wrote:
> >
> > The Richard III Society has delivered its formal response to Leicester
> > Cathedral's decision to mark the king's final resting place with a slab and
> > not a tomb.
> >
> > http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Richard-III-Society-responds-slab-tomb-decision/story-18904503-detail/story.html
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > - *Friend:* Are you upset about the outcome of the election?
> > - *Me:* I'm upset about the outcome of the War of the Roses.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

--- In , colyngbourne <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> If the Society have publicly stated that " Richard III would have planned for a table tomb in a separate chantry chapel as his successor, Henry VII did in Westminster Abbey", have they totally not twigged that he was spending a huge amount of money at York to provide exactly that? And now they are ignoring that as a likely place he might have wished to have been interred - a huge chantry in York Minster, which required not just 100 priests but building work as well...
>
> Col

Carol responds:

I read somewhere, I think in a snippet from a biography of Henry VI, that Richard seems to have intended a place for himself next to Edward at Windsor (evidently near the one he used to rebury Henry). But I think it's more likely that the society is assuming that he would have wanted to be buried at Westminster next to Anne.

Personally, I'm quite pleased with the Society's statement, which shows that they've been working behind the scenes to come up with a statement that will reflect the feelings of the majority of Society members to the best of their knowledge and ability.

I say thank you, Dr. Stone and everyone involved in the statement. I commend them for citing precedents to support their position and hope that the statement is widely distributed and well received by the public, the media, and, most important, the authorities in charge of planning and building the final resting place.

If we can't agree on a location, surely we can all agree in supporting the Society's elequent request for a tomb rather than a slab.

Carol

I am glad to see the society putting its foot down on the matter of the tomb!!

Ishita Bandyo
Sent from my iPad

On May 6, 2013, at 7:06 PM, "justcarol67" <justcarol67@...> wrote:

>
>
> --- In , colyngbourne <no_reply@...> wrote:
> >
> > If the Society have publicly stated that " Richard III would have planned for a table tomb in a separate chantry chapel as his successor, Henry VII did in Westminster Abbey", have they totally not twigged that he was spending a huge amount of money at York to provide exactly that? And now they are ignoring that as a likely place he might have wished to have been interred - a huge chantry in York Minster, which required not just 100 priests but building work as well...
> >
> > Col
>
> Carol responds:
>
> I read somewhere, I think in a snippet from a biography of Henry VI, that Richard seems to have intended a place for himself next to Edward at Windsor (evidently near the one he used to rebury Henry). But I think it's more likely that the society is assuming that he would have wanted to be buried at Westminster next to Anne.
>
> Personally, I'm quite pleased with the Society's statement, which shows that they've been working behind the scenes to come up with a statement that will reflect the feelings of the majority of Society members to the best of their knowledge and ability.
>
> I say thank you, Dr. Stone and everyone involved in the statement. I commend them for citing precedents to support their position and hope that the statement is widely distributed and well received by the public, the media, and, most important, the authorities in charge of planning and building the final resting place.
>
> If we can't agree on a location, surely we can all agree in supporting the Society's elequent request for a tomb rather than a slab.
>
> Carol
>
>