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An excellent site dealing with the history of Chester….

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When roaming around the internet it’s always satisfying to come upon a site that is well worth recommending. The history of Chester has been dealt with thoroughly at this website. So if you want to know about that city (and its county) please pay an e-visit!

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  1. One of the medieval knights who lived to be a centenarian…. – murreyandblue

    […] the Dales of North Yorkshire) and the slightly less rich Sir Robert Grosvenor (who came from near Chester) over the right to bear a particular design of arms – azure, a bend or (blue with a gold diagonal […]

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  2. ‘Great magician, damned Glendower'(Part 2.) – murreyandblue

    […] of Gaunt‘s retinue during the large-scale invasion of Scotland that year. A year later, at Chester, in the church of St.John the Baptist, he was one of the witnesses in the famous case of Scrope v […]

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  3. Found: The state bed of Charles II…. – murreyandblue

    […] was of the marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, which was found at auction in 2010 in Chester. But no, this is a different bed, and only dates back to Charles II. Nor is it a marriage bed, but […]

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  4. Various Goings on in the General Area of Cheshire. – murreyandblue

    […] at Blore Heath, John and Thomas Neville were captured there by the Lancastrians and taken to Chester Castle. Immediately after the victory at Northampton, the new (i.e. Yorkist) government ordered that they […]

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  5. Behind Stanley lines (2004) – murreyandblue

    […] that year, I visited the Roman city of Chester for the first weekend in March. It has a fantastic cathedral and the best British walls except […]

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  6. Who wrote the inscription on the tomb of Richard II….? – murreyandblue

    […] Lancaster—no, let’s call the latter Henry IV because his coronation was imminent—met at Chester today, 16 August, in 1399. The boy had to be more or less wrenched from Richard’s side to go with […]

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  7. June, July, August 1399. How England fell. – murreyandblue

    […] had reached Chester by 10 August. (York had left him, going first to Wallingford and then to London.) He now had the […]

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