... , — «. SHOCKING DEATH. John Battle ?? labourer, Evesham, killed him- self while in a delirious stite early on Tuesday •morning. He had been confined to bed with erysipelas since December 29. and about one o'clock attempted to jump through his bedroom ...

... Winchester, who was possessed of it to the time of Edward 111. In the year 1265, Brian de Gowd, who was killed at the battle of Evesham, owned it, but as he had taken part in the rebellion it was forfeited and given to Roger de Moels. Geoffrey de Skeffington ...

... did build the said church, wherein Mass and Dirige was to be said for ever, for the said Lord's soul (killed at tho battle of Evesham*), and the Lords of this Manor, his successors for ever. In 1291, the church was valued at but one mark, and was not ...

... Leicester, at the battle of Evesham, was seized by the grant of the Archbishop of York, of certain custody in Lan ...

... Hon. and Rev. Sir F. J. Staple- ton. The first peer was one of the most powerful Barons of his time ; he fell at the battle of Evesham. At the Old Bailey, on Monday, Win. Garrard (76), a Holloway tradesman, waa brought up for sentence for shooting his ...

... undaunted was he. And oft times he made tbeir enemies flee. At length in the battle on Evesham plain (1) The barons were routed and Montfort waa slain, Most fatal tbat battle did prove unto thee, Though thou was not born then my pretty Bessie ! Along with ...

... Montfort, for their lives. The Earl of Leicester afterwards joined the Barefe, and, with his elde-st son was slain in battle at Evesham; bub his family still held the Castle, and made stout re- sistance to the royal besieger, who finally allowed the garrison ...

... kingdom. The battle of Lewes led to Henry's formal deposition, when England presented the strange spectacle of its king and heir-apparent both in custody. At the battle of Evesham the king, being cruelly placed in the front of the battle, was wounded ...

... the defensive armour, would indace us to believe that the remain* wero not those of one of the soldiers slain in the battle of Evesham. In all probability the skeleton was that of an antique Roman a Dane, and the wonder is that it had lam so long u ...

... office of Spesker, a few words on this subject will not be out of place here. Peter de Montfort, afterwards killed at the battle of Evesham, was the ficst who heid this dignified position, and he was appointed in the year 1260, Upou the Speaker’s election he ...

... the battles of Roleia and Vi- retreat to and battle of Corunna, pas- sage of the Douro, battle of Busaco, lines of Torres Vedras, battle of Albuhera, first and second sieges of Badajoz, sieze and capture of Cindad third siege of Badajoz, ...

... Leicester, came | into possession in 1254, through a grant from Henry 111., and was the owner till his death at the battle of Evesham in 1265. After his death his son remained at the Castle, but the King marched an army to Warwick, on June 25, j 1266 ...