A Short History of Warwickshire and BirminghamBatsford, 1977 - 176 Seiten |
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... castles , the de Clintons . They built one at Coleshill , now gone , and Sir William de Clinton , Earl of Huntingdon , built Maxstoke Castle , near Coleshill , in the mid fourteenth century , a moated home still extant . Around 1250 ...
... castles , the de Clintons . They built one at Coleshill , now gone , and Sir William de Clinton , Earl of Huntingdon , built Maxstoke Castle , near Coleshill , in the mid fourteenth century , a moated home still extant . Around 1250 ...
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... Castle was little affected by the Wars of the Roses - history was preserving it for its grandest days in the reign of the first Elizabeth . John of Gaunt had given the castle its mag- nificent banqueting hall , now roofless ; the ...
... Castle was little affected by the Wars of the Roses - history was preserving it for its grandest days in the reign of the first Elizabeth . John of Gaunt had given the castle its mag- nificent banqueting hall , now roofless ; the ...
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... castle ended firmly in Cromwellian hands , and in October 1649 an order was made for the ' slighting ' of the castle , rendering it indefensible by blowing up the curtain wall . This done , Colonel Hawksworth and other Commonwealth ...
... castle ended firmly in Cromwellian hands , and in October 1649 an order was made for the ' slighting ' of the castle , rendering it indefensible by blowing up the curtain wall . This done , Colonel Hawksworth and other Commonwealth ...
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List of Illustrations | vii |
Prehistory to the Romans | 14 |
The Medieval Period | 38 |
Urheberrecht | |
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