Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland .. connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic; . aster was once a Romanstation and later was used as afort by the Saxons. On a hillin the town stands LancasterChurch, and near its site Agri-cola more than two thousandyears ago planned his secondyears campaign i
Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland .. connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic; . aster was once a Romanstation and later was used as afort by the Saxons. On a hillin the town stands LancasterChurch, and near its site Agri-cola more than two thousandyears ago planned his secondyears campaign in Britain and from there also he directed the march of his Romanlegions. A thousand years later came Roger of Poictou, a Norman Baron, whorecognized the military importance of the town and erected there a great later years the town for two centuries was the center of Norman chivalry; itwas there, too, that John of Gaunt held his Court, which in pomp rivaled that ofthe King himself; it was from there also that many edicts of great importance wereissued, and through its castle walls rode many a gallant herald carrying tidings ofpeace or war. In fact few towns can claim a greater connection with royaltythan Lancaster. The Scots attacked the fortress of Lancaster innumerable times, and in 1314,after the defeat of Edward II at Bannockburn, they burned the town and succeeded. PhiiVigraphed hy James Macdonald PRESCOTT TABLET IN OLD BURYING-FIELD,LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS, in memory of John Prescott of Lancashire, England, founderof the New England Lancaster, and first settler of WorcesterCounty. loo LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS in partially destroying the Castle. During the Wars of the Roses, it was alter-nately occupied by both parties and there not infrequently monarchs took one period Court was held there,, parts of the Castle being used as a prison. Itwas in 1715 that the prisoners of the Castle, climbing to the parapets, watched andcheered the Scottish Army as it cap
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