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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st fledignominiously to the refuge of church and castle, but invain; all were taken prisoners,^ and the Kings soldiersplundered the citizens to the last penny. This firstRoyalist success was followed by a reverse. Earl Simonrecaptured the town, and a brilliant tournament was heldhere under the patronage of the de Montforts, to whichall the knights and barons throughout the kingdom wereinvited to give proof of their manhood. The tide 1 AnnaUs de Dunstaplia, Rolls Series. Northamptonshire 197 turned later in the year. The campaign was closed in1266, and it was at Northampton the council met torestore order to the country. On the death of Queen Eleanor, wife of Edward I.,when her body was taken with a magnificent funeralprocession to Westminster, wherever it halted for thenight a cross was built to her memory, and the countyhas been singularly fortunate in preserving both thoseerected within its borders—at Geddington and De-la-Pre.^The former has by far the most successfully defied the
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Statues of^Queen Eleanor, Northampton. works of time and restoration, and is of an uncommontriangular plan and fine design. The De-la-Pre cross,placed on the rise of the hill above the Abbey on theLondon road, has met with much mutilation, andinevitably, to preserve it at all, much restoration wasneeded. By 1460 it was already the headless cross.When the last of the Welsh princes was executed(1284), one of his quarters was given to Northampton to 1 Waltham, in Hertfordshire, is the only other which remains outof the original twelve or fourteen. 198 Northamptonshire be shown upon the town gate—a proof, if proof wereneeded, of its notable position among English towns.The same idea is shown in Northampton being chosenin 1283-4 3^s the place of a Parliament for the countiessouth of the Trent. The second Edward, then uncrowned,held a Parliament here m 1307, and again in 1317. Againin 1328 another was held here by the third Edward, whichconfirmed the Scotch treaty, and is still more impor

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