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A History of the County of Rutland
… by the Long Parliament and imprisoned in Colchester Castle, 63 but knighted by King Charles at Beverley in 1642, … of the king's adversary, the king of France, in the Castle of Somerton. 133 William Deyncourt confirmed an …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the beginning of the 19th century; and a huge embattled castle which was planned by George III, and of which a large …
A History of the County of Somerset
… as the Constable's House and was linked with Nether Stowey castle. 15 There is some evidence of a house, if not a more … West Som. 210 says 1862. S.R.O., D/P/kln 4/1/2; Taunton Castle, Piggott Colln., drawing by J. Buckler, 1840. Font and …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Farm) was appointed in 1544. 9 The park was parcel of the castle demesnes in 1610, 10 and in 1615 was conveyed to Sir … and having the arched gateway of the back entrance to the castle precincts at one end and the church at the other. The … The market town evidently grew up under the shadow of the castle and continued an important place until the 19th …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… do homage without delay after the siege of Porchester Castle, was to have seisin of his land in Kimpton as he had …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Butlers of Werington in Lancashire; so that it is like the Castle mentioned in Gotham; to be situate in this Place, was …
A History of the County of Warwick
… height of 400 ft., are the remains of the earthworks of a castle of the motte-and-bailey type, popularly attributed to …
A History of the County of Hertford
… [gules] on each pendant, impaled with Castile, [Gules] a castle [or] quartering Leon, [Argent] a lion [purple], which …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 160 The overlordship descended with the lords of Tamworth Castle at least until 1609. 161 The lords of Nether Whitacre …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and was elevated to the peerage as Lord Bolton of Bolton Castle (co. Yorks.) on 20 October 1797. 76 The present lord … was commuted for an annual payment of 2 d. at Winchester Castle, 344 and although as late at least as the 16th century … and Kingsclere held of the king as of Winchester Castle by rent of 2 d. a year and by the service of keeping …