The Almoners Pint Mystery Cache
hal-an-tow: I have kept this cache as long as possible to give folk a chance to log it , I know there are several legitimate solvers who have not been able to visit GZ yet , and I apologise to them .
However , a puzzle cache which has had its method and solution deliberately and malevolently broadcast has lost its integrity and is better archived than allowing the effort of previous honest solvers to be cheapened , I know that everyone who gained a smiley at this cache truly earned their difficulty star rating .
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As you walk around the fields of Old Ingarsby ancient history is all around you : most obviously the clear roadways of the deserted medieval village , and the mysterious motte on the opposite side of the valley , a moated mound rather small for a castle , locally known as "The Monks Grave". This is the tale of that monk , an Almoner who lived in interesting times ... The Manor of Ingarsby was given to the Augustinian Canons of Leicester Abbey in 1352 . The Almoner of an establishment such as an abbey had the responsible task of controlling the distribution of a portion of the churches tithe income back to the poor and sick . This task fell to Rauf , a young canon who was from an Ingarsby farming family .
Despite the charitable rules of the order the Abbot , Sadyngton , kept cash for himself , retained personal control over the abbey finances , withheld charitable payments , stocked vast wine cellars , employed many lay servants including one whose principal job was to trim the Abbot's beard and tonsure . A visit by Bishop Alnwick resulted in Sadyngton (whose nickname was "The Vulture") being ordered to rein in his excesses and behave more charitably , but once the Bishop and his entourage had moved on , the Abbot schemed to increase his fortune by evicting the arable farming tenants from Ingarsby in favour of the more profitable and easy to administer farming of sheep .
Rauf the Almoner was greatly distressed to hear of this plan : he fled Leicester Abbey with as much coin from the coffers as he could cram into a rundlet wine barrel carried on his donkey , along with his secret triple coded record of the financial misdemeanors of the Abbot . After a rushed six mile journey to Ingarsby , Rauf distributed the money to his family and the other dispossessed farmers as they left their homes for the last time .
Then he stayed , and lived out his life as a hermit outside the law and the church , hiding in the coverts and valleys around his childhood home . Remembered still for distributing coins to the dispossessed peasants by dipping a drinking cup into that barrel (the Almoners Pint ) , and reputed to still haunt the Monks Grave from where he looked out across the valley at the ruins of his childhood home , Raufs legacy also includes those long lost enciphered abbey accounts .
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No checker or confirmation of co-ords need be given : when you get it right , you will know :) Cache is not a wine barrel , sorry !
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