The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 147
... besiegers was seriously wounded by a bolt which penetrated the front of his armour and over 200 of their artillerymen became casualties as a result of the besieged's concentrated fire on the siege - engines . PROVISIONS see also Stores ...
... besiegers was seriously wounded by a bolt which penetrated the front of his armour and over 200 of their artillerymen became casualties as a result of the besieged's concentrated fire on the siege - engines . PROVISIONS see also Stores ...
Page 162
... besiegers it seems that it could expect no quarter if the castle was eventually taken . Further considerations included the facts that feudal levies only owed service for 40 days , that mercenaries were costly and unreliable if not paid ...
... besiegers it seems that it could expect no quarter if the castle was eventually taken . Further considerations included the facts that feudal levies only owed service for 40 days , that mercenaries were costly and unreliable if not paid ...
Page 186
... besiegers ' heralds asked the garrison to surrender honourably in the face of vastly superior forces . The besieged could ask for a truce – 40 days cessation of hostility during which they could communicate with their lord asking for ...
... besiegers ' heralds asked the garrison to surrender honourably in the face of vastly superior forces . The besieged could ask for a truce – 40 days cessation of hostility during which they could communicate with their lord asking for ...
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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 Corfe crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure England entrance examples fire 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 Scarborough Scottish shell-keep siege engines sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls Trebuchet turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire