THE WATERTON STATUE On the 5th. July 1535, Henry VIII left Windsor for his progress in Gloucestershire. On the very same day Sir Thomas More wrote his last letter to his daughter Margarte: "Our Lord bless you, good daughter, and your good husband, and your little boy ..... I never liked your manner towards me better than when you kissed me last." Thomas More was executed the next day when Henry VIII was riding away from London into Gloucestershire. Among the treasures at Prinknash is a medieval statue of the Blessed Virgin and Child which is black with age, showing feint touches of ancient guilding. This statue was given to the community by a descendant of Sir Thomas More, one of the Waterton family, to be placed in a shrine at Prinknash, for the conversion of England. During November 2002 this statue was stolen and we pray for it's safe return in the not too distant future.
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