The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... knights and ten men - at - arms . ( In C11 Dover was garrisoned by ten knights with retinues . ) At Burton in Lonsdale ( 1130 ) the garrison was a knight , ten sergeants , a watchman and a porter at a total of £ 21 per annum . Other ...
... knights and ten men - at - arms . ( In C11 Dover was garrisoned by ten knights with retinues . ) At Burton in Lonsdale ( 1130 ) the garrison was a knight , ten sergeants , a watchman and a porter at a total of £ 21 per annum . Other ...
Page 97
... knight were : inheritance of estates , marriage to a wealthy heiress , royal service or service to a noble as a high official in his household . Knights who were not eldest sons were mostly penniless and their possible careers tended to ...
... knight were : inheritance of estates , marriage to a wealthy heiress , royal service or service to a noble as a high official in his household . Knights who were not eldest sons were mostly penniless and their possible careers tended to ...
Page 98
... knight's armour . ) Knightly Skills KNIGHT SERVICE The obligation of a tenant to provide one knight for every £ 20 of annual income from his estates . This obligation dated from the time of Edward I ( 1272-1307 ) . A knight's wages were ...
... knight's armour . ) Knightly Skills KNIGHT SERVICE The obligation of a tenant to provide one knight for every £ 20 of annual income from his estates . This obligation dated from the time of Edward I ( 1272-1307 ) . A knight's wages were ...
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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