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Hace 5 días · BIRCHAM NEWTON, Called in the Book of Domesday, Niwetuna, or Newton, that is not a town now founded, but a town nigh, or contiguous to some water, or river; the additional name of Bircham was afterwards made use of to distinguish it from other Newtons in this county. Bircham signifies a town on the hills; Ber or Bur, is also the name of a river ...
Hace 2 días · It is recorded in 1492 when a grant was made to Edmund de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, of LEWKNOR and other manors belonging to his brother John, Earl of Lincoln, who had been slain as a rebel in 1487. (fn. 146) The De la Poles were descendants of Alice, daughter of Thomas Chaucer, (fn. 147) who had held Ackhampstead in 1412.
Hace 1 día · Ann, her eldest daughter, married Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, whose splendid fortunes and mysterious fate are so well known. Elizabeth, the second daughter, became the wife of John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, and lived to see her son, the second duke, decapitated on Tower Hill for his attachment to the House of York.
Hace 1 día · Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of ...
Hace 3 días · Stowe incorrectly terms sir John Gage "lieutenant" at the time of the duke of Northumberland's execution in 1553. On Sir John Gage's death, in 1556, the constableship is stated by Bayley, History of the Tower, p. 663, to have devolved, in pursuance of a reversionary grant, on sir Edmund Bray: but sir Edmund Bray had been long dead, in 1539.
Hace 3 días · It is recorded in 1492 when a grant was made to Edmund de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, of LEWKNOR and other manors belonging to his brother John, Earl of Lincoln, who had been slain as a rebel in 1487. (fn. 146) The De la Poles were descendants of Alice, daughter of Thomas Chaucer, (fn. 147) who had held Ackhampstead in 1412.
Hace 1 día · Stained glass in the East window dates from 1920 and is also a war memorial remembering people from the village who died during WWI. Several of the original brasses have been taken from where they would have been - on the floor - and moved to the walls to preserve them. Side chapel altar in the north aisle.
