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 208
ll preserve for many a centurythe memory of a family distinguished above mostnoble lineages not only for the fame of many of itsscions but also for the fact that the De Veres heldone earldom in the male line for more than five anda half centuries. It was in connection with the last of that race… … FKOJI AN OLD ENGRAVINd HEDINGHAM CASTLE. A Costly Guest 149 land, the historian wrote, and indeed, as Eng-lishmen loved to say, the noblest subject in Europe,was Aubrey de Vere, the twentieth and last of theold Earls of Oxford. He derived his title, throughan uninterrupted male descent, from a time…
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