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 70
sufficient to testify to the presence of the con-querors of the world. From the end of the Roman occupation to theNorman conquest of 1066 there intervened a periodof more than six hundred years, during which timeRochester had to bear much of the brunt of the on-slaughts of the Saxon and Danish… … A Stronghold of Many Sieges 43 Rochester should invite their attacks. So the earlychronicles of English history, with their abruptrecords that This year so and so happened, arereplete with terse sentences which show how thiscorner of Kent was often ravaged with fire andsword. During the Danish…
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