The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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... lands in Cambridgeshire which owed service to a castle in Craven . In major castles continuity of service was secured ... land was held by providing an archer with a bow and three unfeathered arrows for 40 days . ( When his term was up ...
... lands in Cambridgeshire which owed service to a castle in Craven . In major castles continuity of service was secured ... land was held by providing an archer with a bow and three unfeathered arrows for 40 days . ( When his term was up ...
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... land : in C12 it was one fully armed and accoutred soldier ( knight ) for every £ 20 per annum income . Black Prince pledges Fealty ( for Aquitaine ) On the death of a tenant , theoretically lands reverted to the lord ( king ) but in ...
... land : in C12 it was one fully armed and accoutred soldier ( knight ) for every £ 20 per annum income . Black Prince pledges Fealty ( for Aquitaine ) On the death of a tenant , theoretically lands reverted to the lord ( king ) but in ...
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... land of England in 1066 and a Welsh adventurer acquired it in 1485. It is explicit in the celebrated boast of John de Warenne , castellan of Conisbrough who , when asked to produce his title to his lands in the reign of Edward I ...
... land of England in 1066 and a Welsh adventurer acquired it in 1485. It is explicit in the celebrated boast of John de Warenne , castellan of Conisbrough who , when asked to produce his title to his lands in the reign of Edward I ...
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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