The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 71
... arms ( both horsed and on foot ) , crossbow - men , archers , with support from smiths , farriers , watchmen ... arms ' , Garrison in the same war Odiham held out for a fortnight with only three knights and ten men - at - arms . ( In C11 ...
... arms ( both horsed and on foot ) , crossbow - men , archers , with support from smiths , farriers , watchmen ... arms ' , Garrison in the same war Odiham held out for a fortnight with only three knights and ten men - at - arms . ( In C11 ...
Page 84
... Arms became codified in C13 as a result of the tournament heralds ' expertise in identification of devices ( hence ' heraldry ' ) . ' Differences ' were introduced to distinguish one member of a family from another and a technical ...
... Arms became codified in C13 as a result of the tournament heralds ' expertise in identification of devices ( hence ' heraldry ' ) . ' Differences ' were introduced to distinguish one member of a family from another and a technical ...
Page 110
... arms were knights or squires e.g. John de Clifford accompanied Henry V to France with '50 men - at - arms , well accoutred ' of which three were to be knights and the rest esquires , together with 150 archers . MANGON A siege engine ...
... arms were knights or squires e.g. John de Clifford accompanied Henry V to France with '50 men - at - arms , well accoutred ' of which three were to be knights and the rest esquires , together with 150 archers . MANGON A siege engine ...
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Aberdeenshire Alnwick assault Bamburgh barbican barmkin baronial basement battlements Beaumaris besiegers built C12 E O Caernarvon Caerphilly chamber chapel Chepstow church Conisbrough constable Conway crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure engines England entrance examples fireplace flanking floor forebuilding fortified manor-house fragments ft high garrison gate gatehouse ground hall Harlech Henry Henry III Herefordshire inner bailey Invernesshire keep Kenilworth Kidwelly kitchen knights L-plan later London Tower loops lord machicolated manor masonry mediaeval moat motte motte-and-bailey mound mural murder-holes Newcastle Norman North Riding Northumberland original outer bailey palisade parapet pele pele-tower Pontefract Portchester portcullis postern prison protected rectangular remains of curtain ring-work Rochester roof royal castles ruins Scottish shell-keep siege sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire