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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so connected bytradition with Saxon history. . . . It is said that Haroldhaving lost hys lefte eye in the battle of Hastings, yescaped to the countrey of Chester and lived thereholylie in St. Jamess cell, fast by Saynt Johns Church.Both accounts are pure legends, but the story of thewonderful rowing seems to be fully accepted by the Dean,and is not scoffed at by most Cheshire historians. When Cnut the Dane ruled over English land hecommitted the government of this part of Mercia tocertain chief men with the dignity of Earl, who werestyled Earls of Chester. Only three of these ruledduring the closing years of the Anglo-Saxon period:Leofric, the son of Leofwin, Algar, the son of Leofric,and Edwin, son of Edgar. Then the Normans came,and many changes took place in the Cheshire land. TheConqueror confiscated the estates of the Saxon gentlemenand nobility, and bestowed them upon his Normanadventurers and followers. He gave the Earldom ofChester to Gerhard, a noble of Flanders, but the Earl
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™i^ncS^,:;.vLT. ^^ in ^-^ Parliament ^VIl^ -^^^^Z^ the- Barons ;mc4 ABBOTS of ^•l- that Coirnhe PaLATINK Cbmiltxm OfL,.Je pilrt in AfrJ,, Cheshire 127 was compelled to go to his native land, was seized by hisenemies and retained a prisoner. So the King gave thetitle to Hugh Lupus, son of the Viscount of Avranches,his sisters son, a valiant soldier, whose efforts were muchneeded to restrain the tumultuous Welsh. He gave tothe Earl a Palatinate jurisdiction and sovereign power tobe held under the King in the province over which heruled. These are the terms of the grant: — Tenere totum hunc comitatum sibi et Heredibus suisita libere ad gladium ut ipse Rex tenebat Angliaecoronam. Hugh Lupus had several barons to assist him in hiscouncil. These were : — I.—Nigel, Baron of Halton, High Constable ofCheshire.n.—Robert, Baron of Monte Alto or Montalt(Hawarden and Mold), High Steward ofCheshire.HI.—William, Baron of Wich Maldeberg (Nantwich).IV.—Robert Fitz Hugh, Baron of Malpas

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