Worcester
place · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
see of Worcester
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Site of King John's anxious Christmas court in 1214, shortly before the insurgents' deputation met him in London.
John held what must have been an anxious Christmas at Worcester, but tarried only for a day, hastening to the Temple, London, where the proximity of the Tower gave him a feeling of security.
After bishop Wulfstan’s death on 18th January, 1095, a writ was issued in William’s name to the freeholders of the see of Worcester, calling on each of them to pay, as a relief due on their bishop’s death, a specified sum, assessed by the barons of exchequer.
While Henry and his justices sat in judgment at Worcester, in 1238, a litigant protested against his suit being tried before them.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Site of Cromwell's decisive victory over the Scots on September 3, 1651.
In 1650 Cromwell became Lord General, and in that year and in 1651 he conducted a war against the Scots, defeating them at Dunbar on September 3, 1650, and at Worcester on September 3, 1651.
After it had pleased God not only to reduce Ireland and give in Scotland, but so marvellously to appear for His people at Worcester, that these nations were reduced to a great degree of peace, and England to perfect quiet, and thereby the Parliament had opportunity to give the people the harvest of all their labour, blood, and treasure, and to settle a due liberty both in reference to civil and sp …