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CONTENTS
CHAPTER VI.
The Vale of Belvoir—Tithby and Wiverton—The Chaworth Family— Royal Visitors—A Loyal Garrison—Lord Byron and Mary Chaworth —The Death of Mrs. Musters—Owthorpe—A Famous Regicide— Langar and Admiral Lord Howe—The Tibetots and Scropes— Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, a Roman Halting-place—An Eminent Judge robbed on the Highway—Monuments in the Church—A Young Cavalier slain at Willoughby
CHAPTER VII.
‘All the World and Bingham’—A Quaint Phrase—The Bingham Family —Admiral Sir Thomas Rempstone—Extraordinary Find—Eminent Clerics—Viscount Sherbrooke—East Bridgeford—A Roman Station —The Home of a Regicide—Religious House at Shelford—The Siege of the Manor-house—The Earls of Chesterfield
CHAPTER VIII.
Aslockton and Archbishop Cranmer—Whatton Church—A Cramner Memorial—The Village Cross—Parish Registers—Early Days of the Prelate—Leland’s Itinerary—Cranmer’s Mound and Walk—The Molyneux — Screveton — Kirketon Hall and the Whalleys — A Mysterious Jesuit—Edward Whalley and Oliver Cromwell—The Guardian of the King—Whalley signs the Death-warrant—He is one of Cromwell’s Peers—Flies to America and dies—Car Colston— Thoroton, the Nottinghamshire Historian
CHAPTER IX.
Down the Trent Valley—Thurgarton Priory—A House of the Augustinians The Cooper Family—A Shatp Skirmish—Hoveringham and the Goushills—Memorial to a Remarkable Lady—Stoke and its Battlefield — The Imposture of Lambert Simnel — Local Relics and Traditions
CHAPTER X.
Southwell: its Church and Palace—The Minster founded—Visits of Archbishops—Sudden Death of Archbishop Gerard—Singular Story of Thurstan—Geoffrey Plantagenet—Strange Scene at the Minster—King John’s Visits—Notices of Cardinal Wolsey—Charles I. at the Saracen’s Head—Byronian Reminiscences
© A P NICHOLSON | PAGE LAST UPDATED: 2 MAY 2003