The castles of England, their story and structure (1896)
Mackenzie, James Dixon, Sir, 7th bart. of Scatwell and 9th of Tarbat, 1830-1900 · New York : The Macmillan co. · leaf 296
hem (1635) to Sir Jolin Bankes, the ancestor of the presentowners, the Bankes of Kinjjston Lacy. When Lord Chief Justice Bankes was summoned to attend Kinj^ Charles I. at\()rk in 1642, his wife and her children retired to Corfe, and lived there in jx-acetill May i, 1643, when, under the pretence of… … CORFE in their design, retired. They then demanded the delivery of four small3-pounder cannon that were in the castle, but the lady, with the help of her livemen and her maids, brought one of these guns to bear on the party, who decampedat its discharge. With great difficulty Lady Bankes then…
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