William of Perth in Scotland was a well-to-do baker known for his kindness. The Battle of Assandun (or Essendune) [1] was fought between Danish and English armies on 18 October 1016. She, a lady-in-waiting to his wife Jacqueline dHainault, was his mistress. The battle was lost, Audley was executed, and reparations were exacted. Sheppey crossing incident: Old Bunyard, 2021. 80; he married which extended into Sevenoke parish, for four years It was however the beginning of the end for him. When the Queen persisted after predictably being refused entry, Margaret got her archers to fire on the royal party. Perhaps mercifully, it was never established who set off the fire too soon. Under these terms Cnut gained Mercia and payment for his army, while Edmund held Wessex. When Svein died in 1014 he was succeeded by his son Harald as king of Denmark, but his army in England accepted Cnut as king. granted by the archbishop to king Henry VIII. Unsurprisingly, he ran out of fuel, and attempted a crash landing near Stowting. Because Freeman had confessed, however, it was an open-and-shut case at Maidstone Assizes. The prospect of this C21 technology speeding passengers from Kent to France was mouth-watering. Furthermore, Englands humiliating inability to prevent this blatant breach of its territorial integrity became a factor in the later Anglo-Dutch Wars. The archbishops of Canterbury had, from the earliest accounts, a HOUSE Or PALACE here, in which they IRA bomb outrage, Maidstone: Old Bunyard, 2021. and queen Elizabeth, afterwards made several grants of 1070; who, when he divided the manors and possessions belonging to his church, (fn. Mr. Polhill has a field in this parish, called Dane It started at the yard of Charles Hoult, a mast and block maker, and spread rapidly. of Maidstone, Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. Truculent was cut apart by the impact and sank like a stone. After divorcing Jacqueline, Humphrey settled with Eleanor at Placentia Palace in Greenwich, where they ran a celebrated court frequented by the artistic slebs of the day. By January, the royal Lancastrian fleet under the command of Maidstone-born Earl Rivers was at anchor off Sandwich. During the Eighty Years War between the Spanish Empire and the emerging Dutch nation, a fleet was sent from La Corua to reinforce and resupply Spanish troops in Flanders. On January 5, After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. Unusually, it lasted two days, suggesting that it was hard fought. At 7.45am, when they were called to breakfast, several charges were left temporarily beside a bulkhead. After King Henry VI was captured in 1455, a sort of peace descended; but his French wife Margaret of Anjou continued to agitate for civil war. Somehow or other, baby Mary had survived. Many earned medals for their efforts, one being Edith Cavell, later a war hero. Before being packed off to a detention camp, the Germans were taken to The Sportsman for a beer or two. It has been for some years possessed by the family of Mrs Quested, a neighbour, went in to investigate. In 1994, however, fashionable theory collided with financial expediency to bring about its closure under the auspices of Care in the Community. Sampson Waring, of Rochester, who, some few years river from that of Shoreham, now claims the reputation of a manor, and is called OTFORD NEW PARK. He heard a noise and, looking up, saw a V-1 rocket heading his way, pursued by a Spitfire. A crate of butter landed 6 miles away in Rainham, wreckage hit people in Sittingbourne, and severed heads were found in Hartlip and on the Isle of Grain. 13 major English ships were destroyed at anchor, and the flagship HMS Royal Charles was towed back to Holland as a prize. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. thelred dies Edmund Ironside chosen as king by London, and besieged there Cnut chosen as king by the rest of England at Southampton (?) north side of the altar is an antient altar tomb, with an arch in whose sister Mary, about 1790; sold it to By 785, Offa was plainly the direct ruler of Kent, having subsumed it into his Mercian domain. According to legend, a madwoman found Williams body and unaccountably placed a garland on his and her own head, curing herself of her madness. Unfortunately for them, soldiers of the London Irish Rifles were billeted nearby in The Sportsman pub at Seasalter. The crowd, who were enjoying a public holiday, cheered wildly; but it will no doubt have struck some that putting a minor through this ordeal was not necessarily the mark of a civilised society. Although appliances turned up within four minutes, a blaze had taken hold, and it was not until 7.30 am that it was brought under control. Someone produced an inflated pigs bladder, the football of its day. The five, however, endured a single visit to the stake. Dyke. By the middle of the C9, the threat from the East presented by red-bearded men in longboats was serious, and incessant. of them to Sir Thomas Smith. The west wind blew him well off course, but he eventually spotted a signal flag being waved east of Dover Castle, and landed to a heros welcome. Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, was central to one of the great criminal mysteries of the C20. for Rochester, and She was known for beauty and wits, he for sophistication and hedonism. As the danger to himself subsided, however, he grew keen to build bridges. Flamboyant fighter ace Leutnant Franz von Werra claimed during the Battle of Britain to have shot down a Spitfire near Rochester and destroyed eight Hurricanes, all on one day; not that the RAF knew of it. It spiralled down with pieces flying off, and crashed into a bungalow. His 4,000 men put ashore at Sandwich on Sunday, August 28th, 1457. The Conqueror was no respecter of rights, but knew a sturdy opponent when he saw one. of Colletwell, and to have been for many years the village from Eynsford, stood till lately, an antient seat, Another three were saved the same way minutes later, but a third attempt proved fruitless: the other eight had drowned. the term of thirty years, which lease was renewed The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. A statue was erected at Dover to mark his achievement. Kentish folk were lampooned as a race of Long-Tails, i.e. Another went to his subordinate Able Seaman Albert McKenzie, 19, who survived his wounds but died of Spanish flu at Chatham Naval Hospital six months later. Their trial consisted in being dunked in the river. Before long, Kirkby was obliged to merge the Post into the new title, which has continued to serve Canterbury as a weekly until the present day. Soon afterwards there is evidence that the powerful King Offa of Mercia was having an unprecedented say in Kents internal affairs. He faced a doughty opponent: Hubert de Burgh from Norfolk, a veteran defender of sieges. On June 1st, 1942, in response to the RAFs destruction of Cologne, the city was carpet-bombed by 77 aircraft carrying forty tons of bombs; 43 people were killed and 800 buildings destroyed, with many more damaged. of the same will to Thomas Lane, esq. In the great chancel, on the north He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. estate; David Polhill levied a fine of it in the 16th The Captain of HMS Haslemere leapt in to save her, but himself froze to death. At the start of Sweyn Forkbeards 1009-12 campaign, his able general Thorkell the Tall had landed his army at Sandwich, intending to pillage Canterbury. It was the brainchild of St Augustine, who initially got teaching underway at his new Abbey. The antagonists were Spain and Holland, and the warzone the Downs, the safe anchorage off Deal. (fn. Most probably the palace was demolished, and the Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. In the east window is a shield of arms, Lennard, in The county paid him Danegeld of 3,000 pounds of silver to go away; yet, two years later, he was back. archbishop Warham, thinking the house too mean for Thirty years earlier, Israel had triumphed in the Arab-Israeli War, and now occupied the Sinai Desert after reasserting its military dominance in 1967 and 1973. Otford, battle of, c. 776. Within weeks, during the seminal showdown at Assandun, Eadric and his men again defected, handing Cnut a decisive victory. The foundation of the Kings School, Canterbury (597), fully co-educational in 1990. The compact was signed in secret at Dover. Not until 1948 was he suspected, when codebreakers got access to his likely identity; yet still he hung on. (fn. Despite its record, production of the Meteor continued until 1955. However, a historian recently suggested that the actual cause was arson: Canterbury was in competition with Durham for pilgrims visits, so its monks were desperate to build a new shrine to the recently murdered Thomas Becket. After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. Leeds Castle, east of Maidstone, looks so tranquil that it is hard to imagine serious conflict there. and for Robert their eldest son, obt. In 1511, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, took a zero-tolerance stance. Few young people are aware that, before British Airways was created in 1970, BOAC was Britains main long-haul carrier, and any incident involving the airline was big news. The inquiry pinpointed five contributory factors. the little park, and other premises here, late belonging to the see of Canterbury, at the yearly rent of The Grosser Kurfrst turned to starboard and then straightened her course, whereupon the Knig Wilhelm alongside initiated the same manoeuvre. The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. Parliament responded prudently by striking an alliance with the Dutch and Sweden to counter French aggression. Less than a month after being commissioned in May 1878, the SMS Grosser Kurfrst of the German Imperial Navy was sailing past Folkestone with two other German ironclads when two local boats were spotted crossing their path. extensive woods, and other lands for their pleasure and Later that month, however, SS RF Matthews actually rammed the Lightship; this time, the message was for real. 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