WHITHER LIE THE BODIES. During the middle of the 17th century, following years of civil disorder, the English Monarchy was being threatened as to its very existence as dissension spread apropos the political problems with Scotland; even the Baronies of the Northern English counties took to an armed conflict which frequently involved highly brutal and sanguineous affairs. As our local history tells us, Melton Mowbray was not to escape involvement in these violent times when King Charles I, in despair of his increasing hopelessness and in great anguish of his Monarchy being about to be overthrown, was to blow the trumpet in August of 1642 when the fighting across the land began in earnest. The Reverend J Ward, in his ‘ Melton Mowbray in Olden Times’ - 1879, has provided us with much useful information about the past in which he narrates moments of the Civil War, especially those of Leicestershire and Melton, in some detail. At the end of his descriptions...
Memories of Days Long Gone.