Famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1900)
Malan, Alfred Henry, editor · New York, G. P. Putnam's son; London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 62
where,regardless of all law but his sovereign pleasure, the King mightpursue the chase of the tall red deer. Still earlier in Saxontimes royal favour gave the town of Woodstock a certain im-portance. Ethelred held a witan here, and there is a pleasingtradition (not more improbable, possibly, than… … ROSAMONDS WELL, WOODSTOCK 37 b_^ \ Blenbeim anb its fIDemorles 39 was at Woodstock that Henry 11. met fair Rosamond; there isstill a well to mark her bower. Again, serious historians willremember that it was at a council held here that the King andBecket first found themselves in serious…
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