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East Hoathly

Sir Thomas Lunsford: on the hunt for the ‘Cannibal Cavalier’

2018-03-08
By: ODOmatt
On: March 8, 2018
In: East Sussex, Historical Footnotes
With: 0 Comments

 A Historical Footnote – visited by ODOmatt on the 28th February 2018. A chip in the wall of an old country church marks the spot where, one Sunday afternoon in 1634, one of Britain’s most notorious soldiers tried to assassinate a rival. This is where historical footnotes get into the fine print, but if you stick with it, this nondescrpit indentation illuminates a whole world of scandal, war and adventure in the age of revolution.Read More →

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