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Only occasionally , perhaps from aerial photographs of Restormel ( 14 ) , Castle Rising ( 8 ) or of Henry II's keep and inner bailey at Dover ( 36 ) , can we obtain some impression of what these castles looked like in their original ...
Only occasionally , perhaps from aerial photographs of Restormel ( 14 ) , Castle Rising ( 8 ) or of Henry II's keep and inner bailey at Dover ( 36 ) , can we obtain some impression of what these castles looked like in their original ...
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The average annual income of King Henry II , which means in practice the revenue of the then English government , has been reckoned as perhaps some £ 20,000 . An American historian , Professor Sid . ney Painter , recently calculated the ...
The average annual income of King Henry II , which means in practice the revenue of the then English government , has been reckoned as perhaps some £ 20,000 . An American historian , Professor Sid . ney Painter , recently calculated the ...
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But perhaps the most exciting revelation made by these accounts , over and above the great cost of the work which they show , is the size and composition of the labour force involved . At Harlech in the summer of 1286 an average weekly ...
But perhaps the most exciting revelation made by these accounts , over and above the great cost of the work which they show , is the size and composition of the labour force involved . At Harlech in the summer of 1286 an average weekly ...
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| Title | English Castles Volume 21 of Batsford paperbacks |
| Author | Reginald Allen Brown |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | B. T. Batsford, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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