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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t arm. There were left Catesby, Percy,the Wrights, Rokewood, and Grant. Rokewood andthe Wrights fell before the rest. Then said Catesby toWinter, standing before the door whereby the sheriffsposse were to enter: Stand by me, Tom, and we willdie together. So we stood close together, Mr. Catesby,Mr. Percy, and myself, says Winters narrative— theytwo were shot, as far as I could guess, with one bullet—and then the company entered upon me, hurt me in thebelly with a pike, and gave me other wounds.^ The scene closes, of course, for some of the conspiratorsyet more tragically on the scaffold, and with them diedthe hopes of the extreme Catholic party in England. There are stories of other rides, of Charles I.swanderings before Edgehill fight, and of his sonsafter Worcester. Other royal visits occurred : James II.came to Coventry and William III. to Warwick. The 1 Sidney, Gunpoivder Plot, p. 229 ; Gardiner, History of England,vol. i. ; and Burgess, What the Guntowder Plot was, pp. 268-70.
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Warwickshire 277 eighteenth century witnessed the rise of Birmingham,the nineteenth of Leamington. But it is not possibleto tell of everything m so short a space. The historyof Warwickshire is a great story in little room, one ofmighty happenings in one small nook of the earth.When it has been studied more scientifically than hitherto,in Dugdales spirit but with modern lights, we may finda great deal that may help us with modern problems.For when all is said and done, our forefathers were verylittle removed in feeling and thought from us, the presentinhabitants of this insignificant planet. Mary Dormer Harris. SHROPSHIRE I.—Celtic and Saxon Periods. THE history of Shropshire finds its centre of interestin the fact, which it shares with Cheshire on thenorth and Herefordshire on the south, that it is aborder county, and as such has been associated with everywave of conquest which has passed across our island. Itis remarkable, however, that it is first mentioned as a shirein connection

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