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Amongst the great numbers of labourers and craftsmen at and about the castle in the next near - thirty years , the accounts list freemasons and rough- masons , scapplers and quarriers at the quarries , carpenters and sawyers ...
Amongst the great numbers of labourers and craftsmen at and about the castle in the next near - thirty years , the accounts list freemasons and rough- masons , scapplers and quarriers at the quarries , carpenters and sawyers ...
Page 194
In the event , amongst the ... In the military sphere we have already stressed that the introduction of gunpowder was only one amongst other changes , and not at first important as a challenge to the castle's supremacy .
In the event , amongst the ... In the military sphere we have already stressed that the introduction of gunpowder was only one amongst other changes , and not at first important as a challenge to the castle's supremacy .
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the magnificent East Anglian church of Lavenham , one amongst the many great " wool churches " of that and other areas . Towns grew in size and prosperity , and to some extent the declining strength of the castle was offset by the ...
the magnificent East Anglian church of Lavenham , one amongst the many great " wool churches " of that and other areas . Towns grew in size and prosperity , and to some extent the declining strength of the castle was offset by the ...
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Medieval Castles |
| Author | Reginald Allen Brown |
| Publisher | Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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