• the Cotswold Games were organized by Robert Dover as a protest against Puritanism in the early 17th century?

Facts on topics related to Cotswold Games

England

• 11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?
• 19th-century smugglers in Worthing, West Sussex, England, were known to store their contraband in table-tombs at West Tarring's St Andrew's Church (pictured)?
• 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station, England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
• Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian (pictured) was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave England, but twice had it forced back to port by severe gales?
• Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei, was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia, but died as a free man in England?
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
• General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England?
• Australian-born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England?
• Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
• German rugby club SC 1880 Frankfurt adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the English club Blackheath F.C., who also played in those colours?

English Civil War

• Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
• Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground?
• Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later?
• Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?
• George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
• Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
• Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?
• Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
• St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching?
• during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork?

Gloucestershire

• Prince Charles, who in 2004 opened the village shop at Hewelsfield in Gloucestershire, England, described it as "a triumph of community spirit"?
• Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village?
• Lodge Park in Gloucestershire is England's only surviving 17th-century deer course and grandstand?
• Newark Park, a Tudor hunting lodge in Gloucestershire, was built in 1544 for a Groom of the Bedchamber to King Henry VIII?
• St Michael's Church in Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, (pictured) was formerly in the middle of the village but, due to demolition of buildings, it now stands at its southern end?
• the 1971 restoration of Westbury Court Garden, a 17th-century water garden in Gloucestershire, only used plants that had been introduced to the British Isles before 1700?
• the earliest record of St James' Church, Longborough, Gloucestershire (pictured), is in 1192 when a priest was murdered in the church?