 | John Burke - Genealogy - 1836 - 766 pages
...scarcely paid the last rites to his father, when he was* called upon to take the command of Hopton Castle, one of the few fortresses in Shropshire which...were at that time in the interest of the Parliament ; its owner, Mr. Wallop, the heir of the Corbets, as they of the Hoptons, being one of the fiercest... | |
 | Shropshire (England) - 1881 - 272 pages
...had scarcely paid the last rites to his father, when he was called upon to take the command of Hopton Castle, one of the few fortresses in Shropshire which...were at that time in the interest of the Parliament : its owner, Mr. Wallop, the heir of the Corbet ta, as they of the Hopkins, being one of the fiercest... | |
 | Powys-land Club - Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1881 - 522 pages
...had scarcely paid the last rites to his father, when ho was called upon to take the command of Hopton Castle, one of the few fortresses in Shropshire which...were at that time in the interest of the Parliament. Its owner, Mr. Wallop, the heir of the Corbets, as they of the Hoptons, being one of the fiercest of... | |
 | Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Harold Minot Pitman, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Louis Effingham De Forest, Conklin Mann, Arthur S. Maynard - New York (State) - 1905 - 432 pages
...command of Hopton Castle, one of the few fortresses in Salop which were at that time in the interests of the Parliament, and he gallantly sustained a month's...but thirty-one men against five hundred horse and foot.f Subsequently events crowned with success the party espoused by Col. More, as he is generally... | |
 | Alexander L. Moir - Moir family - 1913 - 594 pages
...the last rites to his father, when he was called upon to take command of Hampton Castle, one of the fortresses in Shropshire, which were at that time in the interest of parliament; and he gallantly sustained a month's seige, with but thirty-one men, against five hundred... | |
 | 1847 - 932 pages
...last rites to his father, when he was culled upon to take the command of Hopton Custle, one of the lew fortresses in Shropshire which were at that time in...sustained a month's siege, with but thirty-one men against five-hundred horse and foot. Subsequent events crowned with success the party espoused by Colonel More,... | |
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Castle, one of the few fortresses in Shropshire which were at that time in the interest of the Parliament ; and he gallantly sustained a month's siege, with but thirty-one men against five hundred horse and foot. 