 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1857 - 612 pages
...On Christmas Eve, in that year, being Sunday, the Roundheads, reinforced by troops from Northampton, entered the house, ' where they found great and rich plunder which they had for their paines,'£ and — the better the day, the better the deed — on Christmas morning fired it. Out of its ruins... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 640 pages
...that year, being Sunday, the Koundheads, reinforced by troops from Northampton, entered the bouse, ' where they found great and rich plunder which they had for their paines,'{ and — the better the day, the better the deed — on Christmas morning fired it. Out of its ruins... | |
 | Walter Debenham Sweeting, John Taylor - Northampton (England) - 1888 - 376 pages
...diverse Captaines, some of them men of about 700 li, yeare a piece whose names are to me unknowne. About two of the clocke on Sunday the souldiers entered...of this house wee lost about 20 men -and had hurt 10, besides 9 that were hurt by our own powder, on Christmas day before day, order was given to fire... | |
 | Frederick William Bull - Newport Pagnell (Buckinghamshire, England) - 1900 - 368 pages
...diverse Captaines, some of them men of about 7oo li, yeare a piece whose names are to me unknowne. About two of the clocke on Sunday the souldiers entered...paines; In the taking of this house wee lost about 2o men and had hurt 1o, besides 9 that were hurt by our own powder. On Christmas Day, before day, order... | |
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It was a melancholy end to so fine a house, and so regally connected, that it should have fallen into the hands of the Parliamentarian forces in 1643. On Christmas Eve, in that year, being Sunday, the Roundheads, reinforced by troops from Northampton,... 