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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Smythe family, of whom was Lord Carrington, who, at the battle of Edge-Hill, bravely redeemed the royal standard, as …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish which, because it was later an endowment of Battle abbey (Suss.), may also have been the king's in 1086. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the inhabitants, and put several Jews to death. After the battle of Lewes, in which Henry III. was made prisoner, that … the earl and the confederated barons in the celebrated battle of Evesham. In 1299, the street leading to the suburb … IV., Queen Margaret, on the defeat of her party at the battle of Tewkesbury, and the subsequent murder of her son, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… young man and most like his ancestors, he fell in the battle of Northampton the sixth of the Ides of July 1460, …
A History of the County of York
… cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James the Deacon remained to carry on … chantry priests. The foundation was abrogated by the battle of Bosworth. The college was pulled down, and nothing …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the northern of the two Navarino windmills named after the battle of 1827, both of which were tower mills. 67 The south …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Percy, Earl of Worcester, who was made prisoner at the battle of Shrewsbury, and afterwards beheaded; this once …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… troops quartered here, by Prince Rupert, after the battle of Reading. Seal and Arms. The town is pleasantly … and royal customs, it was granted to the abbey of Battle, in Sussex, with which it continued till the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… as the rendezvous of the Scottish army previously to the battle of Otterburn, and it was the place of sepulture of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… suffered temporary confiscation of his estate after the battle of Evesham in 1265. 29 In 1279 he held Yelford of …