The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... king who bestowed parcels of it in separated lots as fiefs to various feudatories on condition that they supplied ... ( king ) but in practice they were usually returned to the heir on payment of ' a relief ( a form of Death Duty ) . When ...
... king who bestowed parcels of it in separated lots as fiefs to various feudatories on condition that they supplied ... ( king ) but in practice they were usually returned to the heir on payment of ' a relief ( a form of Death Duty ) . When ...
Page 132
... king's agent , with supplementary writs to other sheriffs for help in regard to labour , transport and materials ... king . For the king's works in Wales , the builders ( masons , carpenters and navvies ) were recruited from Organisation ...
... king's agent , with supplementary writs to other sheriffs for help in regard to labour , transport and materials ... king . For the king's works in Wales , the builders ( masons , carpenters and navvies ) were recruited from Organisation ...
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... king's custody , on the tower for that night . The following morning they were arraigned before the king's tribunal and having been absolved from the excommunication they had incurred by the bishops present , they were condemned by the king ...
... king's custody , on the tower for that night . The following morning they were arraigned before the king's tribunal and having been absolved from the excommunication they had incurred by the bishops present , they were condemned by the king ...
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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