Great Plague
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Our landscape is strewn with abandoned medieval villages, which are usually marked on Ordnance Survey maps. Their fate is often linked to the decimation caused by the Black Death, but there is one that’s slightly different in that it certainly doesn’t only apply to deaths caused by the plague. Wharram Percy was struck by the…
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THE ORANGE AND LEMON CHURCHES OF OLD LONDON
Blitz, burials, citrus fruits, executions, Great Fire of London, Great Plague, Grinling Gibbons, Hardicanute, Harold I, Hugenots, Hugh Lord Dowding, James Boswell, James Gibbs, John Smith, John Stow, Katherine Howard, London, Lord Mayors of London, Nikolaus Pevsner, nursery rhymes, Pocahontas, rugby, Rugby School, Samuel Johnson, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Richard Whittington, St. Clement Danes, St. clement Eastcheap, St. Dunstan’s and All Saints Stepney, St. Leonard’s Shoreditch, St. Martin Orgar, St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, St. Sepulchre’s Old Bailey, Thomas Culpeper, Will Somers, William Webb-EllisReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Old London – City of Churches.  Bow Church can be seen to the left.  Part of the The Visscher Panorama of London, 1616. Image Peter Harrington Rare Books.  Orange and lemons say the bells of Saint Clement’s You owe me five farthings say the bells of St Martin’s…
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Fifteen miles downstream of Exeter, Powderham Castle faces over the estuary of the River Exe, having originally risen “from the ashes of the Great Plague, but that wouldn’t be its last brush with adversity”. At the beginning it was a true castle, set in 50,000 acres. Alas, after weathering wars, sieges and other troubles, it has…
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UPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/crossrail-a-portal-into-medieval-london/ No doubt archaeologists thought all their Christmases had arrived at once when first they heard  breaking news of the building of Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure  –  which will be called the Elizabeth line and will open in phases from late 2018 – and the exceptional opportunities the…
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The Abbey of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate and the Ladies of the Minories
Agnes Countess of Pembroke, Aldgate, Anne Montgomery, Anne Mowbray, Blanche of Navarre, Dame Elizabeth Savage, Edmund Crouchback, Edmund Earl of Suffolk, Edward IV, Eleanor Scrope, Elizabeth brackenbury, Elizabeth de Clare, Elizabeth de la Pole, Elizabeth Wydeville, Great Plague, Henry VIII, Isabel of Wodstock, Jane Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Margaret Stafford, Mary Tyrrell, Minories, Mowbray estates, nuns, Pamela Tudor-Craig, Sir James TyrrellAnne Montgomery nee Darcy.  One of the much respected Ladies of the Minories from the window of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk. Shakespeare said ‘all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’.  Following on from that if we may be allowed to say that the Wars of the Roses were…
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As you can see, Kit Harrington will soon portray Robert Catesby in a BBC drama about the Gunpowder Plot. Catesby, shot while resisting arrest, was one of the lucky ones. Then again, our folk memory of the seventeenth century is not entirely accurate. Here it is.
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