Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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" After that Dane cummith a 3 Miles beneath The
Hedde,¹ if Rayne cum fast it ragith on stones " —alluding
to the wild floods which used to come down Dane bring-
ing hayricks, sheep, trees, etc., with them.
' The Forest of Neede Wodde ... is mervelusly
plenished with Dere. Cank Foreste a great Thinge
merely longging to the Bishoprick of Lichefeld. Ther
is Bewdesert his Place and Parke, and Shucborough his
Place (were is a Park now of red Dere) is yn the side
of Cank Woode. Shukborow was ons Suchborows with
the long Berd and he, as sum say, gave it to the Mitre
of Lichefeld. I know no certente of this gift. Sum
caulle Shokesborow Heywood by cause it standith by
it. Ther is a Fair Poole betwixt Cank Wood andShukesborow.
" Ther ly a v. fayre Pooles by the Castel of Eccleshaul,
and the Park of Blore a 2 Miles of in the same Lordship
is a V. or vi. miles abowte and is the Bishops, and is
ful of wonderful fair Wood.
" Burton-on-Trent hath but one Paroche Churche and
a Chapell at the Bridge Ende. Trent compasethe a
greate Peace of the Towne. Mani Marblers workyne

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¹ i.e., the Shire heads, the point where the counties of Derby, Stafford,
and Chester meet.
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CAVERSWALL CASTLE

STAFFORDSHIRE 231

Alabaster." The men of " Uttokcestre usythe Grasinge.
For there be wonderfull Pastures upon Dove. It
longgithe to the Erie of Lancaster. ... A
Fre Scole founded by a Prist, Thomas Allen. He
founded an other at Stone in the Reigne of Queen Mari
"—added by Stowe. ... "Ther is a fre schole at
Wolverhampton made by Stephane Jenings, Mayor of
London, a very good market, and a Coledge. The Dene
of Wyndsore is Deane there."
Leland tells us that he " sawe but 3 notable thinges "
in Tamworth—the Paroch Church, the Castle, and the
Bridge. The Collegiate Church
" havinge a Deane and
6 Prebendaries and every one of them hath his Substitutet
here; but I could not learne of whose erection the
Colledge was. . . . Marmions were without doubt
the successe Lords of the Castle. The King at this
present is taken as Patron of the Colledge. There be
divers fayre Tombes of Noblemen and Women in the
East Part of the Church of the Freviles, of Baldwinus
de Frevile L. of the Castle. There lyeth alsoe the
Grand-Father and Grand-Mother and Father and Mother
of Ferrers nowe Owner of Tamworth Castle.

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