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 220
site of a post forguarding the fords here, and some remains of their buildings, coins, andperhaps of a villa, have been found. The termination by would lead to theinference that a Dane named Home had his dwelling here (there is a town inDenmark called Hornby), and not far ofi are the earthworks of… … LANCASHIRE 191 rock, at the base of which flows the Wcnniiig River, hut the date of thisconstruction is not known. Alric, a Saxon, is mentioned as hvin.ij here atthe Conquest, and his grandson Adam Fitz-Swain left two daughters, one ofwhom, Maud, married a Norman named Adam de Montbegon. In the…
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