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Visitants Guide to Windsor Castle and Its Royal Cathedral; With Their Latest Improvements, Including the Town of Windsor, the Forest, and Eton College

Visitants Guide to Windsor Castle and Its Royal Cathedral; With Their Latest Improvements, Including the Town of Windsor, the Forest, and Eton College


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... CHAP, II. THE CASTLE. This majestic structure, so justly termed an emblem of ll, e British Constitution, in its strength, its grandeur, and its antiquity, is built upon tl;e summit of a hill, on the declivity of which the town stands, and forms a most magnificent feature in the prospect for many miles round. Edward the Confessor granted the site both of the town and castle to the abbey of St. Peter, at Westminster; but tlie eligibility of its situation for a military post being perceived by William the Conquerer, shortly after his assumption to the sovereignty, that monarch exchanged it with the abbey for some lands in Essex, and constructed a fortress of considerable size. Henry I greatly enlarged the building, and erected a chapel, where, in 1122, he celebrated with great state, his marriage with his queen, Adclais of Lorrain. Henry II. held a parliament in the Castle, in 1170, which was attended by all the great English barons, William, king of Scotland, and his brother David. During the contest between king John and the barons, which terminated in the grant of Magna Charta, the former took refuge in the Castle, which, in the year subsequent to the signing of the treaty. was ineffectually besieged by the barons. During Ihe reign of Henry III. the Castle was alternately in the possession of both the contending factions, but. being eventually surprised by Prince Edward, was made the rendezvous of Ihe royal party. Edward I. and Edward II. made Windsor their principal residence; it was' likewise the birth-place of several of their children, the most celebrated of whom was that prince " famous in history and of great reuown," afterwards Edward 111. The attachment this enterprising monarch bore to his native place is exemplified by the attention he paid to th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217535304
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217535305
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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