The Crawley Caching Crew & The League of Extraordinary Cachers will Celebrates Easter 2022 with a Series of Outdoor Events
All these events will have the traditional parts
1) A Log to sign, signifing your attendence, if you want to sign
2) A box for Travel Bugs for Moving On
3) A box for Travel Bugs that want you to discover them
The Introduction
14th April 2022 - GC9M5YD - Maundy ThursdayThe Traditional Giving of Money and the additional Shove Halfpenny Competition
Bringing an ancient tradition into a pastime that we enjoy Making local customs fit another way of thinking
In order to do this there will be a number of changes to tradition,
Due to constraints of this pastime everything is a suggestion as it is not a ticket only affair where a dress code applies, this is a money rich event, if you have some and care to share them, bring your Geocoins along, not for washing or distribution, just for other to view of course there will be a coin exchange for those that need to move some on.
The Crown as a Coin
The crown was worth five shillings (or 60 pre-decimal pence) until decimalisation in February 1971, and was also the basis of other denominations such as the half crown and double crown. The last five shilling piece was minted in 1965.
The Royal Maundy
The Royal Maundy is an ancient ceremony which has its origin in the commandment Christ gave after washing the feet of his disciples on the day before Good Friday.
The commandment (also known as a 'mandatum' from which the word Maundy is derived) ‘that ye love one another’ (John XIII 34) is still recalled regularly by Christian churches throughout the world. The ceremony of washing the feet of the poor which was accompanied by gifts of food and clothing can be traced back to the fourth century.
It seems to have been the custom as early as the thirteenth century for members of the royal family to take part in Maundy ceremonies, to distribute money and gifts, and to recall Christ's simple act of humility by washing the feet of the poor.
Henry IV began the practice of relating the number of recipients of gifts to the sovereign's age, and as it became the custom of the sovereign to perform the ceremony, the event became known as the Royal Maundy.
The Beginning of Maundy Money
In the eighteenth century the act of washing the feet of the poor was discontinued and in the nineteenth century money allowances were substituted for the various gifts of food and clothing.
Maundy Money as such started in the reign of Charles II with an undated issue of hammered coins in 1662. The coins were a four penny, three penny, two penny and one penny piece but it was not until 1670 that a dated set of all four coins appeared. Prior to this, ordinary coinage was used for Maundy gifts, silver pennies alone being used by the Tudors and Stuarts for the ceremony.
Modern Maundy Money
Maundy Money has remained in much the same form since 1670, and the coins used for the Maundy ceremony have traditionally been struck in sterling silver, save for the brief interruptions of Henry VIII’s debasement of the coinage and the general change to 50% silver coins in 1920.
The sterling silver standard (92.5%) was resumed following the Coinage Act of 1946 and in 1971, when decimalisation took place, the face values of the coins were increased from old to new pence.
The effigy of The Queen on ordinary circulating coinage has undergone four changes, but Maundy coins still bear the same portrait of Her Majesty prepared by Mary Gillick for the first coins issued in the year of her coronation in 1953.
Today's recipients of Royal Maundy, as many elderly men and women as there are years in the sovereign's age, are chosen because of the Christian service they have given to the Church and community. At the ceremony which takes place annually on Maundy Thursday, the sovereign hands to each recipient two small leather string purses. One, a red purse, contains – in ordinary coinage – money in lieu of food and clothing; the other, a white purse, contains silver Maundy coins consisting of the same number of pence as the years of the sovereign's age.
The SHOVE HALFPENNY COMPETITION
Coins will be provided and there will two competitions
The Crown is providing a table, they are covering both options, the preferred outside location and in the case of inclement weather an indoor arena, both will be polished before the event. in both cases it may involve the exercising of squatters rights on the tables or is it putting a "Reserved" label on them
The Shoving Order will be drawn on the Night, Before each Competition and is limited those who have submitted a "Will Attend" Log
The farthest down the runway, when there is only your coin on the runway
The farthest down the runway when all coins remain on the runway
It is likely that there will be a "Zoom" feed provided by the LEC to which ends, not falling off the end those on the feed will be eligible, may even have there own shove, being there in person is preferred
TAKING PLACE ON
Thursday the 14th of April 2022
From 19:30 to 21:30
OTHER EVENTS OF EASTER
15th April 2022 - GC9M62T - Good Friday - A Celebration of Hot Cross Buns and Noughts & Crosses at The Cross in Hand Pub, Cross in Hand
16th April 2022 - GC9M6AV - Easter Eve - Duck Racing on the Local Stream
17th April 2022 - GC9M6B9 - Easter Sunday - Egg Hunt Day - in and around Tilgate Park, Crawley
18th April 2022 - GC9M6BQ - Easter Monday - Egg Pacing Day (Egg Rolling Races) Maidenbower Crawley