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Identifier: memorialsofoldno00dryd (find matches)
Title: Memorials of old Northamptonshire
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dryden, Alice. ed. cn
Subjects: Northamptonshire (England)
Publisher: London and Derby, Bemrose and sons, limited
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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he country. It was remarked that Egborough was killedby the bursting of his own gun; and that Walker, poor,and obliged to abandon his trade, became a scornedmendicant. His body, according to Bridges, is said to have beenremoved to the neighbouring parish of Uffington, nearStamford, where it was solemnly interred. Since he isdead, let him be buried, was the concession of the Round-heads to his remains. It is also recorded he wasburied at Denton, Northamptonshire, but his former parishof Uffington, near by, seems the more probable.^ In contrast to Woodcroft, Northborough, three milesaway, is associated with the Parliamentarian party as theresidence of the Claypoles. The Manor-house dates backto the middle of the fourteenth century, and althoughsadly mutilated and altered, it contains some of the richestdecorated work of the time of Edward III. in a domesticbuilding. Pecks Desiderata Curiosa, Bk. ix. ^ Dr. Hudson is the original of Rochecliffe in Scotts novel of Woodstock. .■)f??^T- :t
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o OS o X o o «o Two Edwardian Houses. 211 The only original portions now remaining are the gate-house and the hall, forming opposite sides of a court, withsome portions of building adjoining the hall. Whencomplete, it probably consisted of a quadrangle surroundedby a moat which has entirely disappeared. The gatehouse,which has lost its top story, has the principal gateway andpostern recessed under the span of a fine, bold, mouldedarch which gives great character to the entrance. Thestone vaultings of the archway have been destroyed, as alsothe stair leading from the left-hand door; another doorleads into a small room that was probably used as a lowerguard-room. There is no provision for a portcullis or anyindication of fortification now remaining, though from thestructure of the building and the custom of the age, itwould have originally been made capable of defence. The range of buildings connected with the gatehousewere erected about the time of Charles I. for stables; thechambers

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