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Referencing “Table of Nine”
Every codex entry that links to Table of Nine. 15 entries.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
The altar Strasbourg cannot countersign
Canterbury's unnamed Archbishop ordains bell-warriors, guards relics, blesses ships, and proves that an unaudited Christian altar can still make Strasbourg lose sleep.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-025
Arthur
The king whose name binds Britain and whose life eludes the Ledger
Arthur sustains Britain's Crown, oaths and Table while eluding every register. King, warlord and saint in British testimony; identity and dates unestablished.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-1518
Arthurian legitimacy
The old island claim Strasbourg can deny and still must salute
Arthurian legitimacy is Britain's old answer to Strasbourg: charter, altar, Table, coin and coastline, obeyed too long to be dismissed as mere legend.
Codex Ref. X.1.06-001
Arthurian Tradition
The myth that keeps the Channel open
The insular oath-machine Strasbourg cannot disprove and Britain does not need proved: Arthur as crown, charter, coin, bell, harbour chain, and naval discipline.
Codex Ref. X.1.01-002
Canterbury
The cathedral that refused to become a bureau
Canterbury is the British Crown's cathedral-seat: old, armed, bell-ridden, unaudited, and infuriatingly functional beyond Strasbourg's forms.
Codex Ref. II.0.01-201
Canterbury Cathedral
Where British bells keep the hours and Strasbourg keeps its distance
Canterbury Cathedral keeps Britain's oaths, relics and bells beneath Crown authority. Its face circulates on Iron Crowns; Strasbourg's authority stops at the rail.
Codex Ref. II.0.02-201
Channel
The water between two prides, and wiser than both
The Channel is the Synod's western salt wound: Calais to Dover, bells to fog, British pride to Synod arithmetic, and drowned things below.
Codex Ref. II.1.04-201
Concord Quarter
Where the Synod receives what it cannot command
Strasbourg's Concord Quarter houses foreign missions and Concord's arbitration rooms. Here the Synod receives what it cannot command, and every objection remains pending.
Codex Ref. II.1.04-007
Court of Canterbury
Where every paper is read and no obedience is owed
Canterbury's sovereign court gathers Aldric III, the Table of Nine and the Archbishop around a government that reads Synod papers in full and owes Strasbourg no obedience.
Codex Ref. X.1.02-202
England
The island province that declined the province and kept the invoice
England is the British Crown's southern engine: chalk, bell, harbour, parish wall, and island refusal, useful enough to spare and rude enough to endure.
Codex Ref. X.1.03-201
King-Warden Aldric III
The island abbot with a sword, and worse, with ships
Aldric III rules Britain from Canterbury as King-Warden: independent ally, naval necessity, liturgical irritant, and pious stubbornness in a crown.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-022
Legate-Prior Mertens
The man who reported Britain accurately, and therefore dangerously
Mertens, Synod ambassador in Canterbury, writes the British Crown plainly enough to make policy bleed through its bandages. Accuracy is his scandal.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-024
Lord-Warden Eccleston
Courtesy sharpened until it can cut a Bureau in half
Eccleston, British ambassador in Strasbourg, receives every Synod memorandum with perfect courtesy and returns obstruction in the shape of proper procedure.
Codex Ref. III.2.01-023
Lunden-Kirk
The Thames city whose parish walls keep the Bureau outside
London survives as a walled monastery-city on the Thames: perhaps four hundred thousand souls, each parish armed, each street watched. The British Crown governs; the Bureau possesses reports and no jurisdiction.
Codex Ref. II.0.10-201
Royal Fleet
The island's parliament of hull, bell, chapel, and gun
Britain's Royal Fleet keeps the Channel, Gibraltar, grain, pilgrims, and Synod pride afloat; Strasbourg counts the hulls and calls dependence cooperation.
Codex Ref. X.1.05-001