‘There was never a Paston poor, a Heydon a coward or a Cornwallis a fool’. An old Norfolk saying. The Pastons cannily made a series of advantageous and strategic marriages enabling them to swiftly ascend the social ladder. Frieze of a Medieval Wedding – Artist Thomas Stottard. Yale Center for British Art. The Pastons, aContinue reading “THE PASTON FAMILY DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES, THEIR UPS, THEIR DOWNS AND THEIR LETTERS.”
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The Links That Bind – Reappraisals – Richard III, Edward V, the Herald’s Memoir, Coldridge/John Evans, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Thomas Grey and Gleaston Castle.
Could these images in Coldridge Church be of the same man? A young Edward V, an adult man whose face appears to show injury/disfigurement around the mouth/chin area and the face of the John Evans effigy which also seems to have a scarred chin? Photo thanks to John Dike, leader of the Missing Princes Project,Continue reading “The Links That Bind – Reappraisals – Richard III, Edward V, the Herald’s Memoir, Coldridge/John Evans, Sir Henry Bodrugan, Thomas Grey and Gleaston Castle.”