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White Ladies Priory (often Whiteladies Priory) is in Shropshire and is famous as the first resting place on the journey of Charles II of England after the Battle of Worcester during his escape to France in 1651. The name 'White Ladies refers to the nuns who lived there and who wore white (undyed) habits. (An apostrophe is sometimes used in the name) Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Shrops) is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in the West Midlands region of England. ...
Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ...
The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the English Civil War. ...
The Escape of Charles II from England in 1651 is a key episode in his life. ...
// Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ...
An apostrophe An apostrophe ( ’ ) is a punctuation and sometimes diacritic mark in languages written in the Latin alphabet. ...
The priory was built in the grounds of a medieval nunnery. In 1535 White Ladies Priory was valued at having an annual income of less than £17 and, owing to an Act of Parliament in 1536, it was shut as its annual value was less than the £200 needed to keep the Priory open.
White Ladies' was not was occupied by its owners, The Giffard family in 1651, but was run by housekeepers and servants. Among the tenants upon the estate were five brothers called Penderell. (There had been six but one had been killed at the Battle of Edgehill.) They were woodmen and farm servants, living at different places in the neighbourhood, and looked after some of the houses such as White Ladies Priory and Boscobel House, which is about one mile away. The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War. ...
Boscobel House, on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, England, was built around 1632, when landowner John Gifford of White Ladies Priory converted a timber-framed farmhouse into a hunting lodge, Boscobel house became one of the most evocative sites in the English historical imagination. ...
Charles Giffard escorted the King to White Ladies Priory early on 4 September 1651 after riding throughout the night after the battle the previous day. They were admitted by a servant of the house named George Penderell. He sent for Richard Penderell, who lived in a farm house nearby, and for their elder brother William, who was at Boscobel. They took the king into an inner room, and disguised him. After failing to cross the River Severn Charles returned to the estate on 6 September and spent the day in the grounds of Boscobel House hiding in the famous Royal Oak. September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ...
// Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ...
The Severn bridges crossing near the mouth of the River Severn The River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren) is the longest British river, at 354 kilometres (219 miles) long; it rises at an altitude of 610 metres on Plynlimon near Llanidloes, in the Cambrian Mountains, Mid Wales, and it passes through...
The Royal Oak is the name given to the oak tree within which King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. ...
Whilst the large timber-framed nunnery has now gone, the remains of the nunneries medieval church, and the nineteenth boundary wall of the small graveyard still remain.
In legend the Priory is said to be where Queen Guinevere retires to after the death of King Arthur. Guinevere was King Arthurs Queen. ...
King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ...
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