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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Rowton Moor. Cheshire was a vast theatre ofwar, and witnessed more fighting than almost any othercounty. And sad was the havoc wrought. As in oldendays the gentlemen of Cheshire were as divided as ever;some were loyal, and others espoused the cause of theParliament. Beeston Castle withstood a brave siege, andwas afterwards slighted by Cromwell and reduced toits present state of ruin. Dodington Castle, Crewe Hall,Dorfold Hall, Cholmondeley Hall, Carden Hall weregarrisoned, and endured attacks and sieges. Nantwichwas a stronghold of the Parliamentarians, and evenchurches, such as Barthomley and Acton, were garrisonedand besieged. Adlington Hall, Stockport, CroughtonHall, Malpas, Tarvin, Huxley Hall, Birket House, Bun-bury and Nether-Legh all saw much fighting, andsuffered from sieges or attacks. A volume would beneeded to tell of all the fightings in Cheshire during thatdisastrous war. No less than twenty-two of the greatand beautiful houses of the gentlemen of the shire weredestroyed.
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Cheshire 137 The Cheshire folk soon wearied of Cromwell andPuritan ways, and as early as 1655 several of theprincipal gentry were imprisoned at Chester on thecharge of disaffection to the Government. Four yearslater Sir George Booth, with the Earl of Derby, LordCholmondeley, and others, raised 3,000 men to deliverthe nation from slavery. A battle was fought atWinnington Bridge, near Northwich, but Booths forceswere defeated. The Restoration of King Charles in thefollowing year was but a fulfilment of the design of theCheshire Chief of Men. The Duke of Monmouth honoured the county witha visit in 1683, hunting for popularity and representinghimself as the champion of Protestantism against theRoman tendencies of James II. His visit caused a Nopopery riot in the cathedral, where the mob did terribledamage, broke the font and organ, tore up surplices,destroyed the glass, and much else. The Duke acted asgodfather to the mayors infant daughter, attended theWallasey races, rode his own horse,

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