A descriptive and historical guide to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the neighbourhoodT. Wayte, 1831 - 160 pages |
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active afterwards ALAN LA ZOUCH ancient arms Ashby Water Ashby-de-la Ashby-de-la-Zouch Bart Baths Bishop Blackfordby building built castle chancel chapel Church Cole-Orton Colonel General Hastings command commenced Countess Countess of Huntingdon county of Leicester cutaneous Cynthia daughter death Derby died Doric order dying bed Earl Ferrers Earl of Huntingdon Edward effects elegant eminent erally erected estates expence father feet Francis Free Grammar School garrison gentlemen George George Whitfield ground Henry Hildersham horse hundred Immersion Item Ivanhoe Ivanhoe Terrace king kitchen tower lady license Lord Hastings Lord Rawdon Lordship Loughborough mansion Marquess of Hastings MEASHAM miles distant miles from Ashby Moira monument NETHERSEAL noble o'clock ornamented Packington Parish Park parliament pious present Pump Room Queen Rawdon reign removed residence Right Honorable saline seat Selina sent side situation Smisby SWADLINCOTE Tamworth temperature Theophilus town village visitors warm Whitfield WILLESLEY WILLESLEY HALL William worship
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Page 92 - ... some of which had grown to an immense size. The ground, as if fashioned on purpose for the martial display which was intended, sloped gradually down on all sides to a level bottom, which was enclosed for the lists with strong palisades, forming a space of a quarter of a mile in length, and about half as broad.
Page 38 - Another letter, from an officer of the Revenge, states the following remarkable request of the illustrious deceased : " The late Marquess of Hastings, in a letter found amongst his papers after his death, requested that on his decease, his right hand might be cut off, and preserved until the death of the Marchioness, when it was to be interred in the same coffin with her Ladyship ! In pursuance of his direction the hand has heen amputated.