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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stries. What could the churches want with so muchlovely furniture when their clergy were reduced almostto beggary ? The following extract from St. Marys Register atStafford tells its title: Mem. that the viii daie of August1575 our Soverign Ladie Queene Elizabethe came fromChartley in progresse to Stafford Castle, and was Receivedupon the poole dam w^out the East gate by the Bayliffsand burgesses w^ an ovacion made by Mr. Launde theSchoole maister in the name of the Towne and theBayliffs delivered to her mat^ a goodlie large standingcup of sylver and gilt of xxx li price v/^^ her hyghnescheerefullie and thank fullie Received and so shee passedthrough the Eastgate streete the markett place theCrobury Lane and the broad eye and there over theRiver to Stafford parke in the seaventeenth yeare ofher mat*^ most psperous raigne. And now, indeed, after being the cultivators of thesoil, the evangelizers of the people, and the championsof popular liberty, the clergy retired into the background.
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Staffordshire 235 But this was not an unmixed evil. Good old IzaacWalton was brought up at St. Marys, Stafford. BishopMorton was a match for Bellarmine. John Lightfoot, son of Peter Lightfoot, vicar ofUttoxeter, became a famous Hebrew scholar. By hismother, Elizabeth Bagnal, he was descended from a longline of Staffordshire ancestors. Of the Bagnals Fullerremarked that no important piece of evidence could bewritten in Totmanslow Hundred for many ages withouttheir names as witnesses. Lawrence Addison, Dean of Lichfield, was the fatherof Joseph Addison. And at Lichfield Grammar School,part of Bishop Blythes College, were educated in oneage, Addison, Elias Ashmole, the antiquary, HawkinsBrowne, the poet, Theophilus Buckridge, David Garrick,the actor. Dr. James, inventor of the fever powder. Dr.Samuel Johnson, Gregory King, the heraldic writer. SirRichard Lloyd, Baron of the Exchequer, Bishop Newton,Mr. Justice Noel, Lord Chief Baron Parker, BishopSmalridge, and Lords Chief Justice Willes

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