Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
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I have not been able to discover any road in the neighbourhood of this
city which goes by the name of the _pilgrims'_ road. If any of your correspondents would furnish any particulars respecting this road, I shall feel much obliged. R.V. Winchester. _Capture of Henry VI._ (Vol. ii., p. 228.).--In his correction of your correspondent, CLERICUS CRAVENSIS, MR. NICHOLS states:-- "Both Sir John Tempest and Sir James Harrington of Brierley, near Barnesley, were concerned in the king's capture, and each received 100 marks reward; but the fact of Sir Thomas Talbot being the chief actor, is shown by his having received the larger reward of 100l." In this statement appears entirely to have been overlooked the grant of lands made by King Edward IV. to Sir James Harrington-- "For his services in taking prisoner, and withholding as such in diligence and valour, his enemy Henry, lately called King Henry VI." This grant, which was confirmed in Parliament, embraced the castle, manor, and domain of Thurland; a park, called Fayzet Whayte Park, with lands, &c. in six townships in the county of Lancaster; lands at Burton |
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