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Description: | A photograph showing a local cavalry regiment on parade in the Mart Yard, possible associated with the Boar War.Over the last 550 years, the Old Hall at Gainsborough has played host to such visitors as, Richard III (1484), Henry VIII and Katherine Howard (1541). John Smyth, the Separatist worshiped here in 1604 and John Wesley the founder of the Methodists preached here on several occasions in the 18th Century.The manor of Gainsborough came into the Burgh's possession as part of the marriage settlement of Elizabeth Percy to Thomas Burgh of Yorkshire in 1430. On Elizabeth's death in 1455, she left the manor to her son also called Thomas Burgh. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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