During the Civil War Sir Lionel Playters was rector of Uggeshall and Sotterley. John Walker in chronicling the sufferings of the clergy records that when 'rebels brake open the stable doors and stole two horses' from the parsonage he challenged them, whereupon one said 'Pistoll the Parson' and two pistols were discharged at him.
During the Civil War, Sir Lionel Playters was rector of Uggeshall and Sotterley. John Walker, in his account of clergy suffering, recounts that when rebels broke into the stable and took two horses from the parsonage, he challenged them; one replied 'Play the Parson' and fired two pistols at him.