Trouble at Gringley Mill

In late summer 1374 John of Gaunt, King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster, the largest landowner and the richest man in England, visited his recently acquired honour of Tickhill and stayed briefly in its castle (one of thirty he held across England and France) before moving to the manor house at Gringley, with disastrous consequences for some of his poorest tenants. If it was not exactly 'trouble at t' mill', it was certainly trouble concerning it...

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