... designed as a play upon the owner’'s name. Fretty a label of six toinls. Of his two sons, one, Richard, was Kkilled at the battle of Evesham fighting on theside of the Barons, and his manor of Billesley was seized by the Crown. Apparently he had no children ...

... Bishop said that now and again the Bishops of Worcester had been fighting men, one having gone to Evesham to bless the troops before the battle of Evesham ; at another time a Bishop entrenched bimself in the old castle at Hartlebury : and ancther was seen ...

... men who have made the Evesham system of cultivation famous the world over, and they regard the proposed increase as absolutely ruinous. The late Mr. E. C. Rudge, of Abbey Manor, which estate includes the site of the Battle of Evesham, was a good landlord ...

... slope running down to the river Avon. It is about three es distant from the ancient Worcestershire town of Evesham—scene of the battle of Evesham, where Prince Edward,lafterward King Edward 1., signally defeated the baronial forces under Simon de Montfort ...

... Peter de Montfort was rnlstml to the famous Simon de Montfort, but the exact relationship is unknown. Both fell at the battle of Evesham in 1265, and Peter's eldest son, Peter (I.) was then taken prisoner, his estates confiscated, and his l-mIIv dismantled ...

... Worcester. Everything which has brought the county renown receives adequate treatment, and, of course, to the great battles of Evesham and Tewkesbury due prominence is given. Indeed, the writer has succeeded in compressing into her little volume of some ...