This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Take courage, valiant knight, damsel, and squire! I have discovered, not a stone's cast off, An antient castle, held by the old knight Of the most holy Order of the Bell, Who gives to all knights-errant entertain: There plenty is of food, and all prepared By the white hands of his own ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Take courage, valiant knight, damsel, and squire! I have discovered, not a stone's cast off, An antient castle, held by the old knight Of the most holy Order of the Bell, Who gives to all knights-errant entertain: There plenty is of food, and all prepared By the white hands of his own lady dear. Knight Of The Burning Pestle. The towers of Stafford castle, standing as it does on the very cone of a high hill, whose slopes on every side are clothed with a forest of trees, presents an attractive object of beauty and interest to the traveller as he approaches, either way, the ancient town to which it appertains. Its original history is coexistent with William the Conqueror, by whom it was built, and its earliest possessor was the son of the Norman's standard bearer, Robert de Tonei, who first took the title of Stafford. It has experienced the changes belonging to the barbarous times in which it was reared, and has been successively dismantled and repaired in the progress of ages. It stood as the stern unmoved witness of the bloody conflict of the Roses of England, when "Banners en high, and battles pass'd below, But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now." The fortress experienced a similar fate, and was demolished in the civil wars between Charles and his Parliament, after "having held out long and obstinately in the royal cause under Lady Stafford. The present Lord Stafford has in part rebuilt the castle, and the two lofty towers which rear themselves before the traveller's eye, overtopping the surrounding trees, flank the south-west front, and belong to what was once the keep or stronghold of the fortress. This is now the entrance to the modern or repaired parts of the...
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