Prince Henry Sinclair Part IX

   Prince Henry gave a farewell banquet and invited all to attend;

               By the great lake Minas shore

               on the silver water’s edge.

               And when the feast was over,

               he entered his great canoe and

               sailed away over the water,

               the shiny waves of the Minas.

  When Prince Henry departed leaving his settlers behind, he probably left the Bay of Fundy and his first stop may very well have been at Desert Island Maine.

  In the area of North East Harbor Maine. Prince Henry had brought a select few Micmac's with him to serve as guide's and to convey his peace- full intentions to others of the greater Algonquin nation. They worked their way down the Penobscot Bay of Maine. Down past the area of Camden Maine, taking their time exploring as they went.

 They rounded Cape Ann exploring as they went at times they left effigies of their vessels in shore side rocks. They followed around Boston Bay with a short excursion up The Charles River in what is now Boston.

  They saw a high hill, inland in the far off distance and a group left the ship with a small vessel to take the Merimac River towards the high hill known as Prospect Hill. 

  

  Sir James Gunn, a life long friend of Prince Henry, and a Knight Templar, took part in the expedition, but the ascent up the hill proved to much for the loyal knight and he died in his sleep while camped on the hilltop.

 For his life long service to Clan Sinclair Prince Henry ordered an effigy carved into a rock which became known to history as the WESTFORD KNIGHT.  From on top of the Hill they were able to see the countryside for 50 miles in all directions.

 They came down to what is now Plymouth and continued around Cape Cod exploring as they traveled making copious notes and making maps as they progressed.

 They went to Martha's Vineyard to a settlement that the Vikings had established as a settlement after leaving Greenland in 999 AD. From this settlement they traveled up Narraganset Bay.

 When the exploratory expedition returned to the ship they retreated back down the bay to the area of Newport where they established a winter camp.

In 1524 when Verrazano arrived in Narragansett Bay he described a European looking tower with local inhabitants that were quite interesting.

 He described them as the most beautiful and civilized people he had met on his expedition; they excelled his own people in size and he called them “Euro-Amer-Norse”.

 When the first settlers arrived in 1600's, they described a group of blue eyed fair haired natives that they called the “banished Indians”, they were the descendants of the group of people that Verrazano described.

 On the Mercator world map published in 1569 a tower was clearly identified in New England. The tower known as the “Newport Tower”, is described as a circular round  rubble stone structure that was thought to be a combination of a church and an watch tower.

 The structure was built in Norse-Romanesque style, inspired by the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.  The structure was a combination of Templar temples, round cathedrals of Scandinavia, and traditions of Norse Scottish builders from where the builders came.

 The Architectural features are those found in construction between 1150 and 1400.  This structure was pre-planned this was not a spontaneous idea. It was built with Sacred Geometry.  The masons were completely familiar with the construction materials available on site.

 The structure was aligned to the east and each of the eight supporting pillars were on a cardinal point of the Templar's. It was not constructed using a compass, the north pillar is aligned within three degrees of the north star, 600 years later.

 The tool marks are of tools made before 1400. These marks are unique and not seen in colonial structures. The arch and lintel designs are of those found in Orkney, Shetland, and the round churches of Scandinavia before 1400.

 There isn't any architectural comparable structure in America. It is similar architecturally to Great Heeding Church in Denmark,, St. Olaf's church at Tonsberg Norway, The Church of St. Mikael in Scheswig in Denmark, and Vardsberg Church in Ostergotland Sweden.

 To build this church in the early 1400's, five thousand cubic feet of soil had to be excavated, and later refilled.  The building required more than a million pounds of stone, sand and lime.

 In the spring Prince Henry left his Templar building crew on site and departed for the Orkney Islands. He brought several variety's of plants back with him which are indigenous only to North America.

 When Henry's grandson William began construction of Roslyn Chapel which was started 1448 and completed 1482, ten years before Columbus voyaged to the New World, William incorporated depictions of maize, aloe, cactus, sassandras, albidium, trillum, grandilorum, quercus and nigra.

  All of these plants were completely unheard of in Europe at this time. Henry returned in the summer of 1400 and was said to have died by an incursion of either England or the Hanseatic League that same year.  However there isn't a record of his burial. Neither in Norway or in Scottish documents.

 He wasn't buried in the Orkney’s or the Castle at Roslyn. How could a person who is a Royal and an extremely important person in both Scotland and Norway fail to have been recorded in state documents?

 Henry's son Henry II was never formally installed as Earl of Orkney because he was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1405. He was released from time to time to attend to family business, as long as a prominent family member took his place. As a result of his prolonged imprisonment he didn't leave much of a trace upon history.

 For Henry II not to have been formally recognized as the Earl of Orkney is significant. Normally the Crown would have had to address this immediately. Why didn't Norway address this matter immediately?

 The Treaty of kalmar was signed in 1397. Bishop Rens of Orkney represented Henry in his absence.  This treaty unified Norway, Denmark and Sweden under one crown.  Could Henry be absent with the Queen's full blessing, was he engaged in a mission of exploration to extend the Queen's sovereignty to the New World?

 To suggest that as meticulous and organized as Henry was it would be unbelievable that he didn't leave instructions who would succeed him in the event of his death.

 The King of Scotland was becoming increasingly concerned over Henry's rise in power and wealth.  There is an unproven theory that the Prince could have been killed in a skirmish with the King of Scotland.

  I am more inclined to go with the theory that Henry gave Antonio permission to return to Venice where he died of natural causes a year later.  I suggest that Henry returned to North America and assimilated in with the Micmac Indians. Henry’s beliefs and values were close to those of the Micmac’s.

 Templar ideals stress communal living, service to others, and the elevation of the communities which they join. On his journey's to America he had found a community that not only preached these ideas but lived them also.

 It is not beyond the realm of possibilities that the attractions of this way of life outweighed the so called good life in Europe!  Living in the arrogant, dangerous, intolerant world of mid-evil Europe!

 There is perhaps a clue in Indian legends that lends credence to this theory.  When the Narragansett Indians were asked who built the Newport Tower, they replied that one of their ancestors built it as a Temple. They described the fire haired green eyed people as their ancestors.

 The Indians didn't have Temples. If Prince Henry did build this structure as a temple it would be significant, perhaps an attempt to merge two beliefs into one!

 There are credible reports of “white skinned” Indians in Nova Scotia, Narragansett Bay and also the Mayan's were confused when Cortez arrived in the Yucatan Peninsula as to recognize him as Quetzalcoatl, the feathered Serpent god, or with the green eyed fair haired god that had treated them so well a hundred years ago!