James Earl of Stanley

Yet another C17 coincidence

Jan 25, 2021

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy

Battle of Marston Moor, Battle of Nantwich, Battle of Preston, Battle of Whalley, coincidence, Colonel Ralph Assheton, English Civil War, James Earl of Stanley, Lancashire, Long Parliament, Members of Parliament, memorial brass, Middleton Church, namesakes, Parliamentary army, Richard Neville, Richard of Warwick, self-denying ordinance, Thomas Fairfax, Vice Constable of England

The English Civil War often looked like Round Two of the Wars of the Roses with, geographically, Yorkists morphing into Parliamentarians and Lancastrians becoming Royalists. One parliamentary commander was a Richard Neville and another bore the name of Ralph Assheton, as we shall show, descended from the Vice-Constable of the 1480s: Colonel Assheton, of Middleton,…
Medieval palace site at Lathom being excavated by group of military veterans….

Dec 2, 2017

anniversaries, archaeology, battles, buildings, genealogy

“Tudors”, archaelogy, Battle of Bosworth, Charlotte Countess of Derby, Civil War, Domesday Book, Henry VII, James Earl of Stanley, Lathom House, Marston Moor, military veterans, Richard III, Rupert, sieges, Thomas Lord Stanley

If you can stomach paragraph two of the article below (by Henry James) the rest is quite interesting! I have taken the precaution of copying the entire article because of a server problem that messed me around after a minute so. So I opened it again, copied, and it’s below, complete with link to the original. “A…

James Earl of Stanley

Yet another C17 coincidence

Medieval palace site at Lathom being excavated by group of military veterans….