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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moved onnext day to Sleaford Castle, thence to Newark Castle,where he died on October i8th. A long siege of LincolnCastle had been going on, and the Barons, who were onthe side of Prince Louis, joining the besiegers in thesame year, William, Earl Marshal, with the PapalLegate and a large army, proceeded from Newark,through Stow, to Lincoln. Falk de Breaute, with cross-bowmen, was admitted into the castle, and the rest ofthe troops forced open one of the city gates. In allprobability this was the city west gate, in the city westwall just where it joined the castle, and as Henry III.sside held the castle, this gate must have been unten-able. After much hand to hand fighting, the party ofthe Barons and the French was decisively beaten, theirleader the Comte de Perche was slain, and the city andcathedral were abandoned to plunder, as having beenall excommunicated. This battle took place on May19th, 1217, and, owing to the great amount of bootygained, received the nickname of Lincoln Fair.
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Lincolnshire 167 In 1255 King Henry III. and his Queen were atLincoln to investigate the supposed crucifixion and murderof a Christian child, Little St. Hugh, for which manyJews suffered. Ten years later were issued the first writsof general summons to Parliament, and Lincoln andYork (and London according to Browne Willis) were theonly cities expressly named as required to retain twoburgesses. In this year some insurgents, commanded byRobert, Earl Ferrers, Baldwin Watts, John Dayville,and other barons, sheltering themselves in the Isle ofAxholme, burst suddenly out thence, and, according toHolinshed, tooke and sacked the citie of Lincoln, spoiledthe Jewes, and slue manie of them, entred their synagog,and burnt the booke of their law. At length PrinceEdward, or (as others saie) his brother, Earle Edmund,was sent against them, who compelled them by force tocome to the Kings peace. On October 6th, 1280, the body of St. Hugh wastranslated with much state and ceremony to the shrine inthe s

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