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British land-owner in Templar treasure cover-up
A private letter has been leaked which appears to contain genuine clues to the location of the legendary lost Treasure of the Knights Templar.
The letter is written and signed by Ralph Abel Smith, a major land-owner in the UK, and addressed to the Grand Preceptory of the Knights Templar at a secret location in Hertfordshire. In his letter Abel Smith refers to items that have been hidden for 700 years somewhere near Bengeo Temple Farm in Tonwell, Hertfordshire.
The letter refers to recent revelations from the Templars in the local press, and warns that the time is not yet right for hasty excavations. Abel Smith owns the land at Temple Farm today, but it is a former Templar property. The farm was established by the Knights Templar in the medieval period, and they lived there until the Order disappeared almost exactly seven centuries ago.
In the years that followed the persecution of the Templars many have searched for the Treasure that disappeared with them. Even great Kings have joined the search, and there are records of prominent treasure-hunters digging sites in the Hertfordshire countryside, but the treasure has yet to be found.
During the medieval Crusades the Templars became the richest and most powerful group in the known world, and their treasure could be the source of great wealth. Legend has it that the Templars took valuable items back from the Holy Land, and in some traditions the Templars are known as the guardians of the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.
What exactly are the items allegedly hidden on Temple Farm near Hertford? If the Templars want to recover them, and Abel Smith wants them to remain buried, there must be something special about them. Will these ancient relics ever be revealed to the public?
Abel Smith (born 1946) is one of the richest men in the land. He belongs to an elite social class referred to as the Landed Gentry. This is the small minority of people in Britain who own the vast majority of the land. Abel Smith represents the darker side of the British Aristocracy -- a shadowy group of families who enjoy great power, influence, wealth and status while remaining surprisingly anonymous. Very few people in Hertfordshire know who Abel Smith is, yet he owns much of the county.
Burke's Peerage, an organization which specialises in cataloguing the family connections of the British Establishment, confirms that Abel Smith has family connections with the Royal bloodline. His family is linked to the Royals via Colonel Richard Francis Abel Smith (born 1933), a fact recently uncovered by a leading researcher at Burke's Peerage, Cathy Neville.
Ralph Abel Smith Esq resides at two main addresses in the UK, one in Scotland, and the other in Hertfordshire:-
Cambusmore Lodge
Dornoch
Sutherland
IV25 3JF
Woodhall Park
Watton-at-Stone
Hertfordshire
SG14 3NF
FURTHER READING
Hertfordshire Mercury, "Landowner blocks hunt for 'Templar treasures'", page 6, 25 March 2005.
http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/news/mercury/hertfordshire_mercury/2005/03/24/landowner%20blocks%20hunt%20for%20templar%20treasures.lpf
Archived: http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1058
http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=1058
"The Insider" mailing list article, 24 March 2005.
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