Word: lichfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prostitutes." As the carriages carrying peers and M.P.s began to arrive, this mixed mob went berserk. The great Edmund Burke received no worse than shrieks of "obscene invective," but the Duke of Northumberland was beaten up, the Lord Chief Justice stripped of his wig. The Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield were "plastered with mud and excrement"; the Archbishop of York was shoved about until he agreed to cry out "No Popery...
...spent most of his life riding and preaching through Britain, wherever and however the "word of the Lord" moved him. In his Journal, he writes of a trip to Lichfield. Not far from the town, he records, "I was commanded of the Lord to pull off my shoes of a sudden; and I stood still, and the word of the Lord was like a fire in me; and being winter, I untied my shoes and put them off; and when I had done I was commanded to give them to the shepherds and was to charge them...
Over 21. In Lichfield, England, during his trial for being AWOL, Private Cornelius C. Knight, 28, told the court-martial he had married a woman who told him she was 32 when she was really 51 and "I just went all to pieces...