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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1845)

Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · Edinburgh, London, Pub. for the author by W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 133

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he sea. f We have a systematic and minute description of all the operations of the siege, which shows that,if the science of heraldry was then at maturity, that of reducing fortified places was truly in itsinfancy. Perhaps the worthy chronicler little dreamed that to a distant posterity these… … CAEELAVEEOC CASTLE. 3 siege began might be seen houses built without carpenters or masons, of many different fashions,and many a cord stretched, with white and coloured cloth, with many pins driven into the ground,many a large tree cut down to make huts. On the first attack the besieged seem to…

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