A Cotteswold Manor

Author : Welbore St Clair Baddeley
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ISBN 13 : 9781330601570
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Cotteswold Manor written by Welbore St Clair Baddeley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cotteswold Manor: Being the History of Painswick This volume has been written dvoring leisure hours won from other labours (which have not been unhelpful to it), in the desire of recovering from the Past, of many Periods, something worthy of Local remembrance, but which may have escaped, or be in the course of escaping, it; and finally, in the hope of presenting this to those who retain and are proud of their Local History. It is none the less the writers regret that, in spite of not ill-directed efforts, he has been unable to render the work as complete as he had wished to do. It will, however, prove not a little surprising to see what a number of important and even tragical figures have been associated with this quiet neighboiu -hood;including those of Earl Godwine; of the great Earl of Shrewsbury; of his ill-fated grandson, Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, whose tomb, it may be, appropriated by the remains of a later forbidding personage, Sir William Kingston, K.G., Governor of the Tower, is still to be seen in Painswick Church. In addition, Charles Brandon was once here as acting Lord of the Manor; while, later, Anne Boleyn, newly a Queen, smiled through our green woodlands while hunting in the (former) Park and Longridge Wood with her terrible master, and they were accompanied by Sir John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland and father-in-law of Lady Jane Grey, himself owning a moiety in this Manor. Here, also but a few years after, Thomas Cromwell took up the Lordship from Sir Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle, and had it immediately taken from him upon his attainder: and presently in his stead reigned as Lady of the Manor, Mary, Lady Kingston, who, while wife of the aforesaid Governor of the Tower of London, had given merciless evidence against her unfortunate and beautiful Royal mistress, their prisoner. Her still more ruthless step-son, Sir Anthony Kingston, succeeded her here, and left behind him a peculiarly evil fame. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.