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One hundred and sixty - six houses were demolished at Lincoln to make room for the castle , and one hundred and thirteen at Norwich . Nor was it only the king and his lieutenants who caused castles to be made to defend the kingdom or ...
One hundred and sixty - six houses were demolished at Lincoln to make room for the castle , and one hundred and thirteen at Norwich . Nor was it only the king and his lieutenants who caused castles to be made to defend the kingdom or ...
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At Colchester , the largest of them all , the area covered measures one hundred and fifty - two feet by one hundred and eleven ; the height may no longer be determined since the upper storeys have now disappeared .
At Colchester , the largest of them all , the area covered measures one hundred and fifty - two feet by one hundred and eleven ; the height may no longer be determined since the upper storeys have now disappeared .
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... worth there is general agreement among them that the garrison of Rochester ( 21 ) , which held out with such determination against King John in 1215 , con- tained some hundred knights and men - at - arms apart from the lesser men .
... worth there is general agreement among them that the garrison of Rochester ( 21 ) , which held out with such determination against King John in 1215 , con- tained some hundred knights and men - at - arms apart from the lesser men .
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Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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| 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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