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Hace 5 días · Castle Ashby is a parish with its village seated on an eminence 8 miles east by south from Northampton, sharing a station with Earls Barton 1¾ miles north of the village, on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the L.M.S. railway. The soil is of a fertile mixed character on a subsoil of clay. The chief crops are cereals.
Hace 1 día · His daughter (his only child) eloped with Lord Compton, afterwards Earl of Northampton. According to the legend she escaped from her father's house, secreted in a baker's basket. From her marriage the Marquesses of Northampton, Bishop Compton of London and two Prime Ministers (the Earl of Wilmington and Spencer Perceval) were descended.
Hace 5 días · The Angel may have come to Riplingham through Compton, as the 3rd Earl was identified as the Angel's owner in 1677. In or about 1638 Riplingham was fined for erecting (against building–control proclamations) 'a new building in the Angel's Inn in Islington'.
Hace 3 días · Pages 275-281. Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 23, Addenda, 1562-1605.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1973.
Hace 5 días · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
First to be explored is how the earldom of Norfolk came into being – how the fortunes of the Bigod family were made. By 1107, Morris shows, the Bigods had become 'barons of the first rank' (p. 1) and by 1166 were the fifth richest family in England.
Hace 2 días · Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft.
