HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF NOTTINGHAM, IN WHICH ARE EXHIBITED THE VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, ARTS, AND THEIR SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC HABITS; CIVIL AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS, UNDER EVERY SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENT, FROM THEIR CONQUESTS BY THE NORMANS, DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME: FORMING A CONDENSED BUT COMPREHENSIVE ENGLISH AS WELL AS LOCAL HISTORY, CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED. BY JAMES ORANGE, Author of the Life of Vason, &c. VOLUME II. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., 33, PATERNOSTER ROW: 1840. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. CHAPTER I. House of Tudor... Progress of liberty... English music...Minstrel's pay...Dwelling houses... Value of clocks... Hand guns...Bowmen... Tournaments ..Lord Eglington...Meals... Earl of Northumberland... Bill of Fare... Baronial hall... Poverty of the commons...Sports and pastimes... Profane swearing...Abo- lition of slavery... Social position of labouring classes... Effects of violent efforts for liberty... Progress of liberty...Insurrection of Wat Tyler...Advantages of... Rebellion under Jack Cade... The two insurrections compared...Wars of the roses, advanced liberty... Prudence of Henry VII...Speech to parliament... Attaints, the Earl of Nottingham...Wealth of Henry VII...Nicholas Byron, constable of the castle...Ditto steward and warden of Sherwood Forest... Inscrip- tion to Sir John Byron in Colwick church... Union of the roses... Henry VII. at Nottingham, imprisons the Earl of Warwick... The pretended Earl of War- wick... Public insurrection... Battle of Stoke Field... Remarkable skeleton... Estates of the castle. CHAPTER II. Henry dismantles the castle...Ode to the old castle...British origin CHAPTER III. Dimensions of the church... Plumptre chapel...Altar tombs...Anci- |