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We have seen that in the Conqueror's reign castles were raised in large numbers by both the king and his magnates . The process was continued under his immediate successors , and was accelerated in the troubled reign of Stephen ...
We have seen that in the Conqueror's reign castles were raised in large numbers by both the king and his magnates . The process was continued under his immediate successors , and was accelerated in the troubled reign of Stephen ...
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Nevertheless , the defenders filled the breach with timber and the castle was not taken ; but after the war , early in Henry III's reign , the shattered gateway was blocked up and heavily refortified , and a new main entrance made which ...
Nevertheless , the defenders filled the breach with timber and the castle was not taken ; but after the war , early in Henry III's reign , the shattered gateway was blocked up and heavily refortified , and a new main entrance made which ...
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all , so far as we are able to compute it , it is probable that about a third of the total heavy building expenditure upon Windsor in Henry's reign was devoted to its residential quarters — and this , it may be noted , at a time when ...
all , so far as we are able to compute it , it is probable that about a third of the total heavy building expenditure upon Windsor in Henry's reign was devoted to its residential quarters — and this , it may be noted , at a time when ...
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