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Hace 3 días · My lord [Thomas Howard] leading me about the house made no scruple of shewing me all the hiding-places for the popish priests, and where they said Mass.' After the duke's death the duchess who had married again, sold the house to Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, former mistress of James II when Duke of York.
Hace 5 días · Despite opposition from his father, who wanted him to marry the wealthy Catherine Sedley, Churchill married Sarah in the winter of 1677–78, helped by Mary. The couple had five children who survived to adulthood: Henrietta Churchill, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Anne Churchill, John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, Elizabeth, and Mary.
Hace 4 días · Dorset, administrative, geographic, and historic county of southwestern England. It is bordered by the English Channel (south) and the counties of Devon (west), Hampshire (east), and Somerset and Wiltshire (both north). The historic town of Dorchester is the county seat.
Hace 5 días · 46 WINTERBORNE CAME (7088) (O.S. 6 ins. a SY 68 NE, b SY 78 NW) The parish of Winterborne Came, covering some 1,560 acres immediately S.S.E. of Dorchester, lies across the valley of the South Winterborne, and slopes up onto the S. Dorset Ridgeway to a height of nearly 500 ft. It is almost entirely on Chalk.
Hace 5 días · Dorchester remained in ecclesiastical hands until the 16th century when both bishop and canons still had substantial farms. At its dissolution in 1536 the abbey owned 7½ arable yardlands in Dorchester field, an 8-acre close sown with corn, an orchard, and about 80 acres of meadow and pasture.
Hace 5 días · Aristocrats only: how the orangery became the most social room in – or out of – the house. Fanciful fruits and even more fanciful parties: the Marchioness of Bath, the Duchess of Beaufort, James Perkins and the Countess of Sandwich make the case for the orangery as a destination for a more exotic kind of entertainment. By Annabel Sampson.
Hace 2 días · Signature. Sarah, Duchess of York (born Sarah Margaret Ferguson; 15 October 1959), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, television personality, and member of the extended British royal family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who is the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and a younger brother of King ...
