The English CastleC. Scribner's sons, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... Sometimes , in later keeps the angles are thickened out slightly to allow more room for the staircases in what were ... sometimes becoming quite ornate , with really beautiful doors and windows and sometimes even fine arcaded exteriors ...
... Sometimes , in later keeps the angles are thickened out slightly to allow more room for the staircases in what were ... sometimes becoming quite ornate , with really beautiful doors and windows and sometimes even fine arcaded exteriors ...
Page 55
... sometimes detect a lingering desire for a great tower gratified by making one of the wall - towers larger than the rest . The fine Marten Tower at Chepstow in Monmouth ( 7 ) is an example of this , and at Barnard Castle in Durham there ...
... sometimes detect a lingering desire for a great tower gratified by making one of the wall - towers larger than the rest . The fine Marten Tower at Chepstow in Monmouth ( 7 ) is an example of this , and at Barnard Castle in Durham there ...
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... sometimes find that where a tenant could not send his quota of knights he would pay the sum of two marks , or 26s . 8d . , which would enable his overlord to hire mercenaries for the same period . The king himself was , of course , the ...
... sometimes find that where a tenant could not send his quota of knights he would pay the sum of two marks , or 26s . 8d . , which would enable his overlord to hire mercenaries for the same period . The king himself was , of course , the ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
Copyright | |
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