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The Story of Some English Shires (page 1/4)

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[picture: The book cover for ``The Story of Some English Shires'']

Pictures from The Story of Some English Shires by Mandell Creighton, D.D., Lord Bishop of London (1843 – 1901). My copy says there were one hundred and fifty copies made.

There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Mandell Creighton.

Title: The Story of Some English Shires

Author: Creighton, Mandell

City: London

Date: 1897

Total items: 14

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Wycliffe's Pulpit at Lutterworth]

Wycliffe’s Pulpit at Lutterworth

Today John Wycliffe is remembered most for his translation of the Bible; he preached from this stone pulpit in Lutterworth Church. [more...] [$]

[picture: In Needwood Forest]

In Needwood Forest

“. . . the Roman road from leicester to Chester skirted the Forest of Needwood, and was held by a station at Uttoxeter” (p. 177) [more...] [$]

[picture: Prestbury Old Hall]

Prestbury Old Hall

The best picture I could find online of this building (or what seems to be the same building) has a caption saying “it used to be the Priest’s House and is thought to date from the year [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Courtyard, Naworth Castle]

Courtyard, Naworth Castle

The story of the ill-planned rising of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland has already been told. One of their associates was Leonard Dacre, who held the castle of Naworth, and gathered round him the ‘rank riders of the Borders.’ Elizabeth ordered him to be apprehended, and Lord Hundson set out from Berwick to join Lord Scroop at Carlisle, [...] the allegiance of the North for Queen Elizabeth, and dealt a decisive blow at the rebellion.” (p. 117) [more...] [$]

[picture: Stokesay Castle]

Stokesay Castle

“Shropshire is one of the most picturesque, as it is one of the most interesting, of English counties, possessing an interest of its own, as being the border-land between England and Wales, and associated with all the scenes of their unequal contest. It owes its picturesqueness and its historical interest to the same causes; it is the district where [...] [more...] [$]


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