Royal castles of England; comprising an account of those ancient fortresses which from the days of William the Conqueror either were the homes of English sovereigns or have been intimately associated with the history and romance of their lives (1913)
Shelley, Henry Charles. [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 190
le were fraught with danger. One plotagainst his life was intended to be carried out hereby four ruffians; on another occasion, when the sup-porters of his natural son, the Duke of Monmouth,were doing their best to force Charles to declarehim his heir, an angry petition fell at his feet ashe passed… … Royal Windsor 137 James II he was not destined to enjoy for long thepleasures of Windsor Castle. A little more thanthree years later, indeed, William of Orange hadlanded in England, and ere he had been in the coun-try a couple of months he is found issuing ordersas though Windsor had belonged to…
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