The Necromancer Part I

By Mike Voyce

Shakespeare called his play 'Richard III' a tragedy. Its centre is the disappearance of 12 year-old Prince Edward and 10 year-old Prince Richard, the sons of King Edward IV, from the care of their uncle, King Richard III. Shakespeare and history accuse Richard of murdering the Princes, within months of their father's death, in April 1483, but in each century since, starting in the 1490s, there have been dissenting voices.
By 2012 many millions of words have been written about what happened to the Princes, yet no-one has ever offered a satisfactory or complete explanation, at least not until now. The problem with the explanation is it has magic at its heart, the magic of the necromancer, and historians won't allow themselves to believe in magic.
Amongst all the fantasy of Horror and Sci-Fi on our bookshelves there is room for a little medieval High Magic; the more so since it may be true.
The author and narrator does undertake psychic investigations, as mentioned in the book. The Arthur Findlay College at Stansted Hall, where the story opens, is a World centre for psychic studies and mediumship. Does it matter whether The Necromancer is a true story or fiction? If you accept there is no such thing as 'single-pointed reality,' there are many different realities, that miracles and other impossibilities are a good deal more common than people think, and that what people believe is what really matters; you may conclude simply The Necromancer is a good story.
Because this is an interactive eBook you have free access to the full text of three important books of history, not to mention the Odyssey, two major books on magic and many other materials. In all there are 54 hyperlinks to relevant pages on the Internet.
Leave historical authority and extended backgrounds to the hyperlinks. They allow you and the author to get on with the story in all its twists and turns. The strengths and weaknesses of historical figures are shown; the character of the little known Thomas Nandyke, the necromancer, is brought to light and brought to life.
If you're hooked, and you will be, Parts II & III go on to put right the world we live in, they deal with King Louis XI and bishop Morton; Part III restores Hastings and Rivers, not to mention the Princes, of whom there are three, including Richard III's own son.
As is usual with Mike Voyce, this story stands on the boundary between Truth and Fiction; it's as true as you want it to be. If you take the insights into the nature of realities, the 'After Word on Truth,' right at the very end of the whole book, will clear the mists which still seem to cloud our own world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Voyce
• Release date: Aug 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476463537

Mike Voyce

Child of loving parents and the Universe. Solicitor (as described in EDWARD), Teacher (of Law, Psychology and Spirit), now retired. An unnatural state which gives time to write THE TRUTH ABOUT HISTORY. It is time I opened my mind to readers, on reincarnation, the nature of reality, other worlds (past and present) we all have shared or can share. EDWARD is the first instalment, The Necromancer is the second.

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Contents

Part I

The Prologue

Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Reverend Doctor Thomas Nandyke

Chapter 2 – John Morton, bishop of Ely

Chapter 3 – A Further Meeting and a Mystery

Chapter 4 – The Workings of a School of Mysteries

Chapter 5 – In Meditation

Chapter 6 – A Rebuke to Thomas

Chapter 7 – A Plan of My Own

Chapter 8 – On Eavesdropping

Chapter 9 – King Edward

Chapter 10 – Hatfield Palace

Chapter 11 – A Little More of the School

Chapter 12 – London and the Great Council

Chapter 13 – The Conspiracy against Hastings

Chapter 14 – The Coronation that never was

Chapter 15 – Placing the Princes

Chapter 16 – A Call to Confession

Chapter 17 – The First Part of Thomas’ Confession

Chapter 18 – Of Thomas’ Comings and Goings

Chapter 19 – Of my Mind and Thomas’ Situation

Chapter 20 – The Second Part of Thomas’ Confession

Chapter 21 – The Next Step

Chapter 22 – Morton’s Solution

Chapter 23 – Brother Thomas returns to the Work

Chapter 24 – A Tudor Riot

Chapter 25 – The Going Out

Chapter 26 – The Coming In

Chapter 27 – The Bishop’s Retribution

Chapter 28 – History

Chapter 29 – Magic and Other Issues

Chapter 30 – Morton’s Final Coupe

Comment So Far

List of Hyperlinks

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The Necromancer – Part I

The Prologue

It was twenty years in gestation. Well, you see, I had to think about it. In the end, when I tired of teaching, or maybe when it tired of me, I finally faced the truths from which I’d been so long running away, cleaned up the manuscript and published.

You could almost hear a sigh of relief; I’d done what I was supposed to do. First Edward, the novel and then "Edward – Interactive" entered public awareness. Learning that story was a baptism of fire, as you will see if you read it, but it taught me a great deal more than how to write.

The first thing I learned was the utter ruthlessness of Lady Margaret Beaufort, who stands behind a good deal of our present story. I learned the rottenness of her family: her father, the traitorous Duke of Somerset, her first husband, Edmund Tudor, who raped his twelve year-old bride, and her son, the usurper, King Henry VII. The hero of Edward thought he had put an end to that poisonous family, but Margaret’s grandson did a terrible and unimaginable thing, which by now has spread their infection to the whole World. It is to dispel that infection, back to its very root, in the evil surrounding the unfortunate King Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, that I wrote The Necromancer.

Of all the truths from which I ran away, the worst was the practise of a kind of magic which I can only call ‘Black.’ It is of this magic the present book speaks. To expunge it we need to expose the truth, for all time, how it was the Princes in the Tower disappeared, why it was Richard III was blamed, and who it was that truly caused what may be the greatest calamity and misdirection of History ever to befall the English speaking world.

Let me confess the trepidation with which I started. To penetrate the heart of this mystery I had to experience for myself the worlds in which this magic was practised, I had to enter the realms of Darkness. The forces that lurk there do not want their villainy dragged into the light of day. Yet for your sake, and for the Princes, it has now been tried. Only by your belief will it finally be known if I have succeeded.

I beg you, dear reader, therefore, take a moment to pray for my success, and wish the Princes and our story well.

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Introduction

By a combination of the Bishop of Bath and Wells’ rejection of the right of Edward IV’s sons to claim the throne of England, and a general fear of power coming into the hands of Edward’s widow and her family, Princes Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Richard, duke of York, were set aside by history. Edward was only twelve when his father died, while Richard was just ten years old. They found themselves in the custody of their uncle, King Richard III. While he and the Duke of Buckingham went on a royal progress round the country, the Princes were left living in the royal apartments of the Tower of London. Sometime between July and the end of September 1483, the boys disappeared.

Contemporary propaganda and subsequent historians claimed Richard had his nephews murdered. Certainly Richard failed to produce or account for his nephews, but did he kill them? This is the core of the mystery, which has not been satisfactorily explained in roughly five and a quarter centuries.

There have always been doubts about what happened to the Princes in the Tower. In the reign of Henry VII, in the 1490s, the claim of Perkin Warbeck to be Prince Richard, spirited away for his own protection, shaped history and King Henry’s policy. Only after the King captured, tortured and judicially murdered Perkin Warbeck could anyone feel sure either of the Princes was dead.

In each century since there have been challenges to the official line that the Princes were murdered on the orders of Richard III. The only ‘factual’ evidence for this murder came nineteen years after the event, with the alleged confession of Sir James Tyrell, a confession for which there is no evidence other than the word of Henry VII.

What you may find remarkable is that two royal princes could disappear from the strongest fortress in England without anyone being able to give evidence of how or why.

In the following pages there is a detailed explanation of how, why and who. You may take it as a novel: the belief systems of many people alive today, about what is and what is not possible, will make it impossible for them to take it any other way. If you are inclined to towards an open mind, simply ask yourself what other explanation fits the facts.

The Necromancer is intended to entertain; but it is also an interactive eBook. It has many hyperlinks giving source books and materials which can inform in great depth; this allows you to take both the story and the subject at whatever level you like. For many it might be tedious to read through all the link on Sir James Tyrell; it might be reassuring to know it’s there and, who knows, if you don’t read it now you might read it later.

The Necromancer not only explains the Princes but also the arrest of Hastings and the Buckingham Rebellion, these are also events with which history finds difficulty. Yet more, if you believe in Thomas Nandyke’s conjuration, this book also explains the deaths of Edward IV and Richard III’s wife and son. Historians cannot be sure exactly what illness killed Edward IV; they cannot explain its sudden onset or his rapid decline. If you read a textbook which states it was a chill, I suggest that’s a guess.

As well as hyperlinks to historical source books, there are also links to materials on magic, including Sir Isaac Newton’s translation of the fabled Emerald Tablet of Hermes. Magic is a very personal subject and I leave you to decide what to take, yet there is enough to allow you to form an opinion and even make a start on becoming a magician yourself.

Part I of the Necromancer deals with facts which can be known in the reality of the world in which we live. There are those who believe there are many alternative realities. Part II deals with securing the reality we know, while Part III concerns the reality of a different history. Afterwards come some words on Magic and on Reality, also Truth, and even a hint about our own future.

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Chapter 1 – The Reverend Doctor Thomas Nandyke

The Sanctuary at Stansted Hall was in hushed expectation.

The room was packed; all attention focused on one of the World’s best trance mediums.

I knew Chris slightly, we’d drunk together, and I asked his help in healing a friend. We’d sat in a noisy bar as I shared with him the medical impossibility of repairing destroyed nerves, relieving the progress of my friend’s M.S, and all the payment he would take for it was a pint of beer. Of all the people I know, he is the only medium in whom I have absolute trust.

The Sanctuary is an addition to the hall. It’s a light and long room, sloping down to the rostrum; part of the Arthur Findlay College, based at the hall, yet accessible from the outside, standing between this World and the next, attracting students from all over the globe, and as far away as the airport.

As Chris channelled spirit healers, so he channelled his control in this demonstration, Akmed the Assassin. Of all the people who sat in the Sanctuary that night I doubted any needed the guidance of an assassin; but what Akmed brought was absolute and unswerving purpose. It was palpable in Chris’ recumbent body; Akmed showed me the meaning of real determination.

At a pause in questions from the floor, I found myself invited to speak,

"A long time ago there was a criminal conspiracy, a most famous abduction. In order to carry off two young boys magic was used and spells cast. In the many years since nobody has been able to discover what happened or who it was committed this crime. Stories have been told but some people believe these were inspired by the perpetrators.

I have one name. If I call on that name I will attract booby-traps. The people responsible for this abduction protected themselves. How can I call on that name without bringing an attack down on myself?"

The answer was simple and direct,

Don’t go to him. He will come to you; then there will be no booby-trap.

There is a magic about Stansted. After so many years invested in the ‘spirit-world,’ and the presence of so many leading mediums, the place has an atmosphere, you can feel it in the early morning mist, hanging over the parklands which surround it. Anyone who goes there cannot fail to come away touched by it. Its gift to me was a way to question Thomas Nandyke.

It was impossible, sooner or later, not to sit in meditation. I knew how to channel, but I also knew with whom I was starting to meddle: it’s not for nothing the secrets of that abduction remained tightly covered for more than 500 years.

The scene in the Sanctuary played over and over in my head. The name I had from a list of the people accused of treason in an ancient Act of Parliament came in and out of consciousness.

The blackness was heavy and thick, there was nothing solid beneath me, above or around, but the blackness wasn’t empty. The Reverend Doctor Thomas Nandyke was there. There was no form, only the sense of his emotions. The only words were, I am he, or maybe, I am here.

The blackness collapsed, like falling from the top