English Medieval CastlesBatsford, 1954 - 208 pages |
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Page 127
... records have recently been worked over in great detail by Professor J. G. Edwards , from whose published researches most of the information given here is drawn . These records , like most surviving medieval records , are not complete ...
... records have recently been worked over in great detail by Professor J. G. Edwards , from whose published researches most of the information given here is drawn . These records , like most surviving medieval records , are not complete ...
Page 153
... records of about the same time , the Pipe Roll of 1174 mentions only twenty knights at Orford ( 27 ) and ten knights and forty men - at - arms at Wark in that year of rebellion against King Henry II by his sons . In the disturbances of ...
... records of about the same time , the Pipe Roll of 1174 mentions only twenty knights at Orford ( 27 ) and ten knights and forty men - at - arms at Wark in that year of rebellion against King Henry II by his sons . In the disturbances of ...
Page 158
... records accordingly show the extensive buying up of supplies to stock royal castles before the outbreak of hostilities . Corn is brought in in large quantities and often hand - mills are sup- plied to grind it within the castle . Meat ...
... records accordingly show the extensive buying up of supplies to stock royal castles before the outbreak of hostilities . Corn is brought in in large quantities and often hand - mills are sup- plied to grind it within the castle . Meat ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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