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 385
atesmen of that name, whose principal seat forso long was at Raby {q.i.). Ralph, Lord Nevill, in 1398 was created Earl ofWestmorland by Richard II., and the lordship and castle of Brancepeth con-tinued with this family till the time of Elizabeth, when Charles, the sixth earl,joining in the Rising… … BRANCEPETH the castles of Raby and Brancepeth (see Baiiiard Caslli-). Under the Act ofHenry VIII., all this large property ought to have vested in the see of Durham,but Elizabeth obtained a special Act to retain it in the Crown. James I. grantedit to his favourite Robert Carr, who lived here as…
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