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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d been feted in Warwickshire mher happier days, for when in 1431 she sojourned atFulbrook Castle, near Barford, the citizens of Coventrysent goodly presents of fish and wine to the Duke andDuchess.2 Besides Edward II. another dethroned king hasconnections with this shire. In 1397, in the height of hispower, Richard II. held that extraordinary pageant ofthe baulked duellists at Gosford Green, on a strip ofgreensward, preserved as common, and not yet given overto the jerry builder. Richard II., vain, beautiful, alter-nating between savage imperiousness and nervous collapse,had one supreme moment, when he faced the rebels in1381, after the death of Wat Tyler, and by his sang-froid and promptitude probably saved himself and hisfollowers from instant death. Warwickshire has its linkwith that marvellous and pathetic rising of the serfs.Not only were the rebels expecting help from Coventry 1 Diet, of Nat. Biog., s.v. Plantagenct, Humfrey. 2 Dormer Harris, Life in an Old English Town, p. 146.
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Warwickshire 271 and Warwick, but after the failure of the revolt, JohnBall, who has become the saint of modern Socialism, fledto Coventry on his way towards the west. Here he wascaptured in an old ruin, and taken off to die a shamefuldeath at St. Albans. All the world knows John Ballscelebrated sermon, with its sound of the eternal puzzle;,the eternal complaint, the unequal distribution of goodand ill in human life: — We be all come fro one father and one mother,Adam and Eve. Wherby can they (i.e., gentlemen) sayor shewe that they be gretter lordes than we be ? . . .They dwell in fayre houses, and we have the payne andtraveyle, raine and wynde in the feldes; and by thatthat Cometh of our labours they kepe and maynteynetheir estates. . . . And the people . . . wolderaurmure one with another in the feldes and in the wayesas they went togyder, affermyng how Jehan Ball saydtrouthe.! Richard II. has another connection with Warwick-shire. In 1385 he completed Lord Zouchs foundationof the

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