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 457
ty-one years of ajje, whom hecreated Earl of Leicester after the death of Simon de Montfort at Evesham. Thiscastle then went to decay, for Edmund, afterwards cre.ited Earl of I^iiicxstcr,built another, within two miles of it, which he c.illed .New Cxstle, when thatat Chesterton, beinn chiefly,… … I N the time of the Confessor this lordship was enjoyed by Earl Edwin, who being1 betrayed and slain hi a rising that took place against William I., that Kinggave the place to William FitzAnsculf, who was possessed of it at the time ofthe Domesday Survey; this Norman had ninety-one manors, of which…
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