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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ruins used as a quarry, and its foundations left andburied until they were discovered twenty-five years ago.After these scenes of violence an era of peace settledupon the shire. It cultivated its trade in wool, developedits lead mines in a small way, and monarchs came tovisit it, to sojourn in its castles and hunt in its forests.There was a royal hunting lodge at Ravensdale.Henry UI. was at the Peak in 1264. Edward I. on hisway to Wales stayed at Tideswell, where the great Cathedral of the Peak was soon to arise and displacethe church he found there. Derbyshire men were suchgreat fighters that their aid was much sought in theScotch and Welsh wars. The custody of the Peak washeld by divers persons of importance. In 1290 theclaimant to the Scottish crown, John Balliol, held it. Inthis case, as in other counties, Scottish sovereigns heldestates in England, and did homage to the King ofEngland for them; but when differences arose betweenthe two countries lands and titles held by kings, or
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Derbyshire 147 would-be kings, across the Border, were confiscated.Edward II. appointed his iniquitous favourite, PiersGaveston, to the custody of the Peak, and whenEdward III. marched northwards he was accompaniedby many Derbyshire archers and men-at-arms who didgood service against the Scots. Not many weresummoned for the French Wars, as they were requiredat home to protect the north against Scottish raids.Happily they were not required, and peace endured forsome time. When Hotspur and his northern warriorsjoined with the Welsh against Henry IV., the Kingvisited the shire, and at Derby in 1403 summoned manysquires and men-at-arms to fight at the great battle atShrewsbury, where several were slain. Among thegallant Derbyshire men who distinguished themselves atAgincourt or on other fields of battle were the Greysof Codnor, the Foljambes, Cokaynes, Curzons, Fitz-Herberts, Blounts, Langfords, Leaches of Chatsworth,and Beresfords of Fenny Bentley. Like their neighboursin Cheshire the ge

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