Talk:Hopton Castle

Massacre
It's not surprising no evidence of a massacre was found by the Time Team. The dead had been buried at Hopton Castle churchyard, if an entry in the parish registers after the scene mentioning 29 men from the castle is believed. (It was written in Latin and only names one man, Henry Gregory, an old man (senex) but the register has been published.) I will look this up when I can get access Shropshire Archives. if the castle was habitable in 1700, much Civil War debris would have been cleared by then.Cloptonson (talk) 05:29, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I am tempted to withdraw my comment as I have checked the register entry to find it does not explicitly record it as a burial at the church. I record for benefit of other users that the Latin inscription, whose writer is unsigned but could have been the church priest or parish clerk, simply says (translated): 29 were killed at Hopton Castle, among them was Henry Gregory, an old man and my neighbour without the statement "buried". The most detailed accounts (generally written from Parliamentarian POV) state that these men were stripped, tied up, maimed, thrown into the moat and clubbed when trying to get out, but the disposal of the bodies is unindicatedCloptonson (talk) 08:41, 2 October 2016 (UTC)