Newcastle Town: An Account of Its Rise and Progress, Its Struggles and Triumphs, and Its EndingWalter Scott, 1852 - 433 trang |
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Trang 70 - I markid that there is a stronge tower in the area of the Castelle, and from it over the dungeon dike is a draw-bridge to the dungeon toure.
Trang 48 - The next entries having reference to a quantity of iron bought at Nottingham, the account is rendered according to the pieces used. For two new wedges, made at the quarry of Welledon, and for mending a wedge, and for two small wedges for fastening the head of a hammer...
Trang 15 - During the absence of the king, CONSTABLES (Comites Stabuli) were officially appointed to the custody of the royal castle. They usually possessed the grant for three years, sometimes for life, but generally during the king's pleasure, " cum pertinentiis habendum quamdiu Regi placuerit ;" or in the terms of the ensuing entry upon a Miscellaneous Roll in the Tower, No, 50, 9th and 10th Edward I., a document which will serve to shew both the manner of holding, and also the connection that existed betwixt...
Trang 70 - Leland describes the castle as presenting the following appearance in his time : " The castelle of Rokingham standith on the toppe of an hille, right stately, and hath a mighty diche, and bullewarks agayne withoute the diche. The utter waulles of it yet stond. The kepe is exceeding fair and strong, and in the waulles be certein strong towers. The lodgings that were within the area of the castelle be discovered and faul to ruine. One thing in the waulles of this castelle is much to be ° In the Journals...
Trang 38 - As a great favour the feudatories of the Crown were however sometimes allowed to catch deer on the borders of the forest'. Such minuteness prevails in these early notices, and with such extreme care was the royal chace preserved, that not even a single oak could be felled here without first obtaining the king's sanction*.
Trang 13 - Chesterk. 1213. Sep. 24. 1215. Dec. 23. 1216. Sep. 20, 21. Besides these fourteen recorded royal visits, the members of the House of Plantagenet were frequently in the habit of passing their time in this agreeable retirement. From the attesting of writs, it appears that Henry the Third was here, 1220. June 261, 27m, 28n.
Trang 46 - In payments to Master Milo, the carpenter, for joists for the chapel, Is. 4<d. (ad capellam gistandam".) Paid John Smith of Peterborough, for three great platelocks (platelokes), with keys bought for the gate of the castle and Gillot's door (ostio de Gillof), 2s.
Trang 35 - Eschset., 36 Hen. III. No. 43. in the possession of Simon le Wayte, who had fled for theft, had been held by him on the tenure of being castle-wayte, (Per servicium essendi Wayta in castro Rokyngham,) a kind of musical watchman, similar to those who disturb the nocturnal slumbers of citizens of the present day. The same custom was observed in other castles'.
Trang 26 - The correspondence betwixt the king and the ambassadors is given at length in Beckington's Journal, and it furnishes a curious illustration of the manners and customs of the age. Their instructions, which were issued under the great seal in the usual manner, only empowered them to treat for an alliance with the one who was specially named, but the king afterwards wished " to set it general," that he might have the choice of either of the count's daughters*.
Trang 43 - ... of the king — (circa astres or astros), probably stars of Bethlehem (a common conventional decoration, as may still be seen on a cope of crimson velvet preserved at Chipping Camden, and also on the vaulting of the Blessed Virgin's chapel in the cathedral of Canterbury), and upon stools (stanna) in the Queen's chamber, stairs and windows in the tower, and plastering the rooms there, and placing a cage (cabies) upon the wall of the tower and barbecan, with his eight underlings, because they were...