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In the English Reformation, all monasteries were dissolved and their lands confiscated by the Crown, forcing their Catholic members to flee into exile on the Continent, although during the 19th century they were able to return to England, including to Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, one of the few great monastic churches to survive the Dissolution.
Howley Hall at Soothill was built during the 1580s by Sir John Savile, a member of the great Yorkshire landowners, the Savile family.
Jervaulx Abbey in East Witton near the city of Ripon, was one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, England, founded in 1156.
With time it became one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, second only to Fountains Abbey in fame.
Bishopthorpe was the site, in 1323, of great council to agree a truce between Edward II and Robert the Bruce, whose forces had been harrying Yorkshire following the Battle of Bannockburn.
This was at a great meeting of the freeholders and farmers of Yorkshire convened by the king on Heworth Moor on 3 June near York.
He died on 16 April 1687, from a chill caught while hunting, in the house of a tenant in Kirkbymoorside in Yorkshire ( it is known as Buckingham House and it is located in the town centre ), expressing great repentance and feeling himself " despised by my country and I fear forsaken by my God ".
Having developed a great interest in science while at the university, he took an active part in the foundation of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, of which he was the first president.
A great many sources incorrectly state that the series did not begin being run in the UK until 1987, but in fact, the Yorkshire region had been showing it since October 1984 ( with the series " going like a rocket " by June 1985 ), with southern region TVS following in October 1985 ( in both instances while the programme was still being produced in Australia ).
Due to its rural location in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Pocklington has not seen any great influx of immigrants since Anglo-Saxon times.
Close follows the carefully laid trail — from Western Australia to London to Yorkshirea trail going back in time to the great refuge dispersals of the Second World War.
Much irresolution was caused by distrust of each other, arising from suspicions of treachery, by the absence of a chief and leader of the war ( for their sovereign, king Stephen, encompassed by equal difficulties in the south of England, was just then unable to join them ), and by their dread of encountering, with an inadequate force, so great a host However, urged by the 70-year-old Thurstan (' Lieutenant of the North ' in addition to his ecclesiastical duties ; Walter Espec was High Sheriff of Yorkshire ), to stand and fight and if needs be die in a holy cause, they agreed to gather their forces and return to York, where they were joined by reinforcements from Nottinghamshire under William Peverel and Geoffrey Halsalin, and from Derbyshire led by Robert de Ferrers.
The club competes in the Yorkshire ECB County Premier League, in which as the Yorkshire League, the club enjoyed great success.
He had already met a number of great Yorkshire players including George Hirst and he was delighted by an end of season newspaper report in which Herbert Sutcliffe predicted that Trueman would play for Yorkshire before he was nineteen and for England before he was twenty-one.
The great Yorkshire team of the 1930s had been broken up by the Second World War and a rebuilding phase was underway by the late 1940s, although Yorkshire had won the first post-war County Championship in 1946.
In the 1952 County Championship, Yorkshire made a strong challenge but ultimately finished as runners-up to Stuart Surridge's great Surrey team which began a remarkable run of seven consecutive titles to 1958.
In season 123 / 4 Gilbert Austin voluntarily ended a run of 190 consecutive appearances when he was selected to play for Yorkshire, which he considered a great honour.
Roger acquired a great lordship in England, with lands in Salfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Hampshire and North Yorkshire.
Between 1318 and 1322, the Scots, under James Douglas, Lord of Douglas, made raids into Yorkshire, devastating great parts of the country, destroying churches and sacking the richest monasteries.
His great grandfather Jabez Bunting ( J. B .) Dimbleby, born in Beverley, Yorkshire, was the first of the Dimbleby family to become involved in journalism.
In the book ' A History of Ackworth School ', written in 1853, Ackworth was described as a " neat agricultural village, situate ( d ) about three miles from Pontefract, and closely bordering on the great Yorkshire manufactories ".

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How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??
Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;
With Greig having joined WSC, England appointed Mike Brearley as their captain and he enjoyed great success against Australia.
The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.
Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.
From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.
During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.
His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.
Charlton began to settle back into his footballing life with Manchester United and England and enhanced his reputation as a scorer of great goals as well as a great goalscorer – rarely is a player regarded as both.
The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years ' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.
On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.
He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.
In 1858, he published in The Plain Dealer ( Cleveland, Ohio ) the first of the " Artemus Ward " series, which, in a collected form, achieved great popularity in both America and England.
The system of vassalage was not divided among great local lords in England as it was in France, for by right of the Conquest the king was in control.
But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.
On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.
Around 1649, there was great social unrest in England and many people turned to Oliver Cromwell as England's new leader.
Because of his close connection with the great royal families of Germany, France, England and Denmark, Callistus ' papacy was received with much anticipation and celebration throughout Europe.
The fleets built by the Commonwealth of England in the 1650s generally consisted of ships described as " frigates ", the largest of which were two-decker ' great frigates ' of the third rate.
The novel is pessimistic ; industrialism and capitalism have killed the best of Old England, and there were great, new external threats.
The 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.
The King had become engaged in the great debate about other-worldly powers in writing his Daemonology in 1597, before he became King of England as well as Scotland.
In an essay published that year he acknowledged that he could not understand those British pacifists who were reconciled to " handing over great blocks of the black and coloured races to the Empire to exploit and experiment upon " and that the extent of his own pacifism depended in the first instance upon an armed peace, with " England keep to England and Germany to Germany ".

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