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Hace 2 días · THE LEGEND OF LADY GODIVA. The earliest known version of the story occurs in the Chronicle of Roger of Wendover (d. 1237), and may be rendered as follows:. However, the countess Godiva, a devotee of the mother of God, desiring to free the town of Coventry from the heavy servitude of toll, often besought the earl, her husband, with earnest prayers to free the town from the said servitude and ...
Hace 3 días · Neale was then returned unopposed together with George Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, son of the recorder. The Whig control of Coventry's seats was weakened in 1741, however, when only Euston was re-elected; despite corruption in the swearing-in of freemen, Neale was ousted by a Coventry man, William Grove, for the Tories.
Hace 2 días · THE OUTLYING PARTS OF COVENTRY. (fn. 1) There is no reference to any place in the Coventry district, apart from Coventry itself, before 1086 when Ansty, Foleshill, Coundon, Sowe, and Binley appear in the Domesday Survey. (fn. 2) Coventry, Ansty, and Foleshill were then held of the king and had been part of Godiva's estates; Coundon and the ...
Hace 4 días · Thomas Coventry: 1800–1801 Two games for England XIs. Cowell ... George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea: 1786–1804 Played in 128 first-class matches.
Hace 4 días · George III (born June 4 [May 24, Old Style], 1738, London—died January 29, 1820, Windsor Castle, near London) was the king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760–1820) and elector (1760–1814) and then king (1814–20) of Hanover, during a period when Britain won an empire in the Seven Years’ War but lost its American colonies and then, after the strug...
Hace 5 días · George Eliot (born November 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England—died December 22, 1880, London) was an English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction. Her major works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch ...
Hace 4 días · George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover ...
