Lakes, Millom
South Chapel with Huddleston monuments - The Huddestons were successful through strategic marriages particularly into the Neville c (Kingmaker) family and being on the winning side in conflict until the Civil War when 9 sons of Sir Ferdinand fought on the royalist side. The fines imposed on the family "for assisting the King against Parliament" reduced them to penury and both William (1668) and Ferdinand (1686) died in a debtors' prison. Both church and castle were besieged in 1644 and under artillery fire from Parliamentary cannons. (guidebook)
Lakes, Millom
South Chapel with Huddleston monuments - The Huddestons were successful through strategic marriages particularly into the Neville c (Kingmaker) family and being on the winning side in conflict until the Civil War when 9 sons of Sir Ferdinand fought on the royalist side. The fines imposed on the family "for assisting the King against Parliament" reduced them to penury and both William (1668) and Ferdinand (1686) died in a debtors' prison. Both church and castle were besieged in 1644 and under artillery fire from Parliamentary cannons. (guidebook)