... remains of defensive works which show that at one time Billesley was a stronghold. A Trussell of Billesley fell in the Battle of Evesham in 1643, and there is a long history of forfeitures and re-grants. Billesley was sold in 1596 to Sir Robert L ee, L ord ...

... general standard of British riding. Patricia and Alasclair Alpin MacGregor will recall the 700th a nniversary of the Battle of Evesham and the death of Simon cl e Montfort; Christopher Hussey will compare the designs in Chippendale's Director with two ...

... medieval history, it was the scene of a famous siege in the late 13th century after the death of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham. Here, too, the unfortunate Edward 11, after being captured off the coast of Wales, had been first imprisoneu before ...

... Patshull branch , whose prowess in tournaments about the year 1440 is celebrated in a wonderful set H e was killed at the Battle of Evesham in rz6s. His furniture made for M elton in about 1750 and to imon de Montfort-and whose alms on a blue instead of a red ...

... venue of W ellittgtom·as A AVENUE OF WELLINGTONIAS E OF GIA T R EDWOODS I DERBYSHIRE Government, who was killed in the Battle of Evesham on August 4th, 1265.-PATRICIA AND ALASDAIR ALPIN MACGREGOR, 48 Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, SW3. Sm,-Recent c ...

... might intend to overawe, for whatever reason, the adjoining flat countryside. But even in 1266, the year following the Battle of Evesham, to which the evidence points for Barnwell's completion, the building of a new fortress in the eastern private fortress ...

... influenced the cam- paigns that were fought. In the later stages of the campaign against de Montfort, culminating in the battle of Evesham, another river line, that of the Severn, with its castles at Gloucester, W orcester and Bridgnorth, became a vital factor ...

... he had not gone mad, had merely perceived a mouse BRASILIA OF ANCIENT PER U W HEN Simon de Montfort was killed in the battle of Evesham in 1265 and his widow was still presiding over the castles of Dover and Odiham, there flourished, in a country of emphatic ...

... remains of defensive works which show that at one time Billesley was a stronghold. A Trussell of Billesley fell in the Battle of Evesham in 1263. Billesley passed, by sale in 1592, to Sir Robert Lee, a Lord Mayor of London, who paid for it with part of the ...

... chronicler, R obert of Gloucester, for battle none it was. This verdict of his has been accepted by historians and strategists. The Battle of Evesham, certainly for the barons' forces, was, indeed, a shambles. Evesham is as much Simon de Montfort as the ...

... an inhabitant of Selborne, and a man of the first rank and property in the parish. He goes on to tell how, after the Battle of Evesham, Prince Edward, having Gurdon at his sword's point, spared him, and how the heart of the rugged Gurdonwas melted and ...

... is, some s6o acres. Later Osbert Trussell was holder through William of Warwick. A Trussell of Billtsley fell in the battle of Evesham in 1263, and there is a long history of forfeitures and re-gra '.'ts attesting the activity and astuteness of successlve ...