Caerwys Village Vexation Traditional Cache
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Short walk along public footpath to micro, size 3"75mm x 1"25mm tube (with log and pencil). You might encounter sheep/cattle in field by micro. One stile to go over only.
A not so easy drive-by.
Famous Caerwys Barber-Surgeon -
Thomas Wynne was baptised on the 27th July, 1627 at Bron Fadog, Ysceifiog, just outside the Town of Caerwys. He was brought up in the Anglican faith, his father died when he was six years of age, he did not have a higher level education as his mother could not afford it after the death of her husband - so she apprenticed him as a cooper - a barrel maker.
Thomas Wynne often played truant to watch surgeons at work, dressing wounds and setting bones.
He was also interested in the art of bleeding and this was furthered by Richard Moore of Shrewsbury - a Quaker who taught him anatomy.
Thomas Wynne married twice, first in 1655 at 28 years of age, to a Quaker; Martha Buttall, from Wrexham, and later Elizabeth Chorley Rowden Maude from Rainhill, Lancashire.
In 1659 at the age of 32 years he qualified as a Barbour Surgeon - and was able to amputate limbs without administering anaesthetic. The patients were usually given alcohol and made to bite on a piece of wood or cloth, together with the help of others holding the patient down the limb would be amputated! The practice was held in Caerwys where he also purchased a house.
Thomas Wynne was one of 128 traders in England and Wales to be issued with tokens for payment - Wynne's token was a brass penny, which bore a design of a towel, a pair of forceps and flanked by a set of teeth.
During the time Thomas Wynne was studying he changed his faith to Quakerism - which was outlawed and everyone at that time was ordered to attend the local church. Thomas secretly held Quaker meetings in his home at Bron Fadog and in 'secretly selected' houses in Caerwys. He was arrested on many occasions and spent various periods in prison for his religious belief. The longest time was in Ruthin Goal.
In the early 1680's Thomas met William Penn through his Quaker faith and they became very good friends. There is evidence that Thomas also spent time in prison for his religious belief in the London area and it is assumed that this is where his friendship with William Penn began. William Penn purchased property in the village of Llandyrnog, Near Denbigh (which is still owned by descendants of William Penn), some eight miles from Caerwys and Penn frequently visited Caerwys to see Thomas and he became a popular figure within the town.
In 1681 King Charles gave William Penn many thousands of acres of land in the 'Newfoundland' now know as the United States of America. William Penn made Thomas Wynne his Personal Physician and on the 30th August, 1682, they both sailed on 'The Welcome' to the Newfoundland. The journey took just over eleven weeks. The ship reached its destination on the 27th October, 1682 and docked at the Dutch settlement in New Castle, Delaware. Many of the passengers on the Welcome were of the Quaker faith and records indicate that some were from the North Wales area - with addresses in Holywell, Abergele and Anglesey.
The original street pattern of Philadelphia (The City of Brotherly love - an apt name for the utopia sought by so many persecuted Quakers), was designed on the cruciform or rectilinear street pattern of Caerwys - with the middle, where the straight streets run north and south, east and west. William Penn named a street in Thomas Wynne's honour - Wynne Street, but Penn changed this to Chestnut Street in 1684 - just as a street named Holme Street, was changed to Mulberry and Pool to Walnut. William Penn insisted that streets running east and west were named after ' forest trees - things that spontaneously grew in the countryside ' The positioning of houses in the centre of the plots, giving ample gardens and orchards or fields ' that it may be a Greene County Towne, which will never be burnt and always be wholesome - William Penn
The Delaware Indians - known as the Lenni Lenape Indians were a cause of concern to the State. Thomas Wynne was foremost in helping them and he was also witness to many treaties that gave them lands along the Delaware River. The Indians treated Wynne as their friend.
Thomas Wynne became a politician, he was selected Speaker of the Provincial Assembly, Commissioned as a Justice of the Courts of Sussex County, in the State of Delaware, appointed a Justice of The Peace and a Provincial Judge until his death in 1692.
If anybody is intrested Caerwys has a Pinfold (see waypoint). (visit link)
Inspired by Motorway Mayhems and A-Road Anarchys, taking you off the beaten track via B-roads into "Vexatious Villages". This follows a similar vein so will be fairly easy for those who have found some of the aforementioned series and a challenge if you haven't.
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26/11/09
New nearby cache placed North Wales Pub Quiz 1 - 6, Caerwys (visit link) you can walk passed this cache to GZ unless you are lazy and want to do it as a driveby.
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