The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions (1815)
Storer, James, 1771-1853 · London, Published for the proprietors by Wm. Clarke... J. Murray... S. Bagster... J.M. Richardson... and Sherwood and Co. .. · leaf 92
king, then earl of Bulloign andlord of Eye, granted to the Benedictine monks of that placethe market and tolls of Orford. And as early as the twenty-second year of Henry the Second, (1176,) Orford was com-pletely recognized as a royal borough. For from the greatroll of the exchequer of that date,… … I ORFOHD CASTLE. the town, which, no doubt, owed its origin and importance tothe protection afforded by this powerful military station, un-der whose parent win§ it was first nursed into notice. To return to the castle: the precise age of this venerablebuilding still remains in some obscurity. We…
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