Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
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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y VI. (only one of many English kings who visitedDurham) came to the shrine of St. Cuthbert at a timewhen his dominions had been cut short upon theContinent, and were still further menaced by the Scots.In the bitter days that followed, when he was driven fromhis throne, he took refuge in the Bishopric, whilst hisbrave wife went to the Continent to seek for troops toenable him to regain the crown. Even rectories werefortified in those days, for men had to take one side orthe other, and to defend their property against bands ofmarauders. Of religious trouble and dispute, Durhamhad no large share at that particular time, though else-where the ferment caused by the Lollard Movement wasproducing much unrest. The Bishopric was too muchunder the control of the Church to allow much freedomof thought. Yet there were isolated instances of Lollardsympathy, exceptions to prove the rule, which wereinstantly repressed by ecclesiastical authority. Dynastic trouble did not end when Henry VII. and his
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Durham 31 wife, Elizabeth, united the Red and White Roses. TheBishopric men, indeed, had no desire to rise against thestrong government which the King set up in England;but they were caught in the tide of rebellion which wasset going by Simnel and Warbeck. It was to stem thistide that Henry placed Richard Fox as Bishop of Durhamin 1494. This prelate, the Kings tried friend, fortifiedafresh the castles of the See, and placed garrisons in themto check the advance of Warbeck through the northerncounties. Fortunately, the invasion followed another lineto the Battle of Stoke, and the men of Durham werespared the anxiety of decision. But Fox, keepingvigilant guard in his fortresses, was instrumental in con-cluding that alliance which was destined eventually tounite the English and the Scots as one nation. Henrysyoung daughter, Margaret, was affianced to James IV. ofScotland, and in 1503 passed right through the Bishopricon her way to her northern home. Nowhere in all thelong progress did th

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