The East Meon History Group would like to thank Peter Garner for giving a fascinating talk in the Village Hall on 17th February. The talk centred on the roles played by a so called ‘gang’ of five individuals in the English Civil War . John Hampden, William Lenthall , Arthur Goodwin, Simon Mayne and Sir Richard Ingoldsby had two things in common from which Peter’s description of them as a ‘gang’ derives. They supported and mostly bore arms for Parliament against their King and were pupils at the same school. Interestingly they were also lawyers.

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