News from Ellys Manor House

En engelsk uldhandler

Ellys - en engelsk uldhandler i Calais, da denne by stadig havde monopol på al eksport af uld til kontinentet. Ellys' motto var "Think and Thank God of all" (Tænk og tak den almægtige Gud). Henrik den 8.'s kronikør John Leland skriver: "Elis greatly risen by
merchandise" (Elis blev meget rig gennem handel) i sin liste over stormændene fra Kesteven i det sydvestlige England.

The Ellys family.

From the wealth of the wool trade, merchants of the Calais Staple - sped their way into the aristocracy. Later, statemen, bibliophile, book collector and patron of scholars. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams ( wrote much satirical verse, and Horace Walpole professed to believe him the greatest poet of his generation), his poem on the Struggle to Succeed Ellys.

Ellys - an English wool merchant of the Calais Staple when the Staple still retained the monopoly of all English wool export to the Continent.

The Art of Recognition - A Winning Formula

The Art of Recognition, lose the ability, and we are no longer able to recognise truth. It is imperative that this skill is kept alive and taught from a very early age. Up at Ellys Manor House (EMH) in Lincolnshire, the birthplace of this programme, we are well aware of its importance.

Traitors Gate

Edward the III ( one of England's greatest Kings, when kings fought shoulder to shoulder with their men on the battlefield), partly went to war to save our wool routes, had he not done so, today things would have been very different.