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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ed himself into their hands in 1646. Theyreceived i^200,ooo from the Parliament for their services,and then basely resigned their sovereign into the hands ofhis enemies. We need not follow the course of the war,the gallant defence of Tynemouth Castle by HenryLilburn, the cowardice of other commanders, the captureand re-capture of Berwick, the starvation of 3,000prisoners at Alnwick, the sleighting of castles. Theaccount of the troubles resembles the old stories of raidand rapine. When the Restoration came General Monk marchednorth and was welcomed with enthusiasm. The leadingfamilies supported the Stuarts and liked not the comingof Dutch William. Sir Francis Radcliffe had beencreated Earl of Derwentwater, and was especially asupporter of King James. The Fenwicks and Forsterswere Jacobites, and in the rising of 1715 many of theNorthumberland squires joined the Scots and proclaimedKing James III. at Warkworth. The fight at Prestoncrushed their hopes and drove Earl Derwentwater to (Mt- -
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Northumberland i 5 the scaffold. The tide of the Jacobite rising in 1745flowed westward and little affected the county, save thatthe only son of the Earl was beheaded on Tower Hill.Since that period few events of historical importance haveoccurred on Northumberland soil. We might note that it is the birth-place of railways,the invention of a native, George Stephenson, andmark the progress of the shire. No longer the moss-troopers ride to commit slaughter and rapine. Thekine graze peacefully in the fields without danger ofbeing lifted. The Scots invade still, but in a peacefulfashion to trade and get gain after the manner of theirrace. The shades of the saints of old still haunt theirsecluded shrines, and tell of the past glories of thatancient kingdom and shire which have shed light andlustre upon England. P. H. DiTCHFIELD. DURHAM IN the older maps of England, that portion of thecounty which we call the county of Durham isgenerally described as Episcopatus Dunelmensis,or the Bishopric

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