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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hough with the Reformers the sermon wasthe ergon of divine service, sacraments and liturgiesbeing the merest parerga, it remains on record that intwenty-four churches in one hundred, that of Weobley,no sermon was preached for many years during the lateryears of Elizabeth and the commencement of the reignof James I. It may be that owing to this laxity thelecturers, who were home missioners and, at the sametime, strong Calvinists, found favour. Prior to the CivilWar there were but few of them in the county, and tothis circumstance may be attributed the generally loyalattitude of the gentry. True, Harley representedPuritanism as much as Herefordshire, and was himselfan active iconoclast; but, at the outset, constituencieswho sent to Parliament men opposed to ship money andthe Star Chamber, or, as in North Herefordshire, to theproposal to enclose Malvern Chase—a highly unpopularmeasure, were not in sympathy with revolution. Takinga rough estimate, we find that, in the main, the northern
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Herefordshire 321 portion of the county supplied the more active partisansfor the Parliament, the south mostly standing true tothe king. But there were exceptions. Bennet Hoskynssided with the Parliament, as also Reed of Lugwardine,a descendant of the Carmarthen Rhudds, who migratedto Breedon, where almshouses perpetuate their memory,and were co-heirs of the Barony of Beauchamp of Powyke.Scudamore of Kentchurch again took opposite sides tohis cousins of Holme Lacey, who, in the person ofViscount Scudamore and his brother Barnabas, the sturdydefender of the city of Hereford, displayed a superbloyalty. Among the gentlemen of the shire who espoused thecause of the Parliament were Devereux, Earl of Essex,Sir Robert Harley, Sir John Brydges, Sir RichardHopton, Sir Edward Powell of Pengethly, Sir John Kyrle,the bastard Thomas Baskerville, Robert Mynors, JohnPateshall, Henry Vaughan, two Scudamores, and WilliamLittleton. The partisans of the king were men of morepositive influence, comprisin

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