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architectural antiquities.
says, that " the greatest length runs from north to south." The south side is
184 feet; north, 187; west, 131; and east, 125. The chief entrance was on the
east side, and there were two other entrance doors. Bolton Castle is seated on an
eminence, in the North-Riding of the county of York, six miles from Middleham
and ten from Richmond. In the south-west tower was confined the unfortunate and
persecuted Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1568 ; but her residence in this place was not
of long duration. Her malignant and unfeeling persecutor had her removed to
Tutbury Castle, in Staffordshire, under the care of the Earl of Shrewsbury. In the
civil wars between King Charles and his Parliament, Bolton Castle was valiantly
defended by Colonel Scrope, and a party of the Richmondshire Militia, against the
Parliamentary forces.
CJornfrurp Castle,
gloucestershire.
The origin and history of this castellated mansion are well authenticated. Edward
Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who was betrayed by his own domestics, and
sacrificed to the resentment of the imperious Wolsey, commenced this ducal palace
about the year 1511, on the site of a " maner place," which had been raised by
Hugh Audley, Earl of Gloucester. Erom what remains of the present edifice, it is
evident that the Duke intended to have built it on a very spacious and magnificent
scale ; one that should rival, in size and architectural ornament, the cotemporary
palaces of Nonsuch, Richmond, and Hampton-Court. In thus daring to emulate
the monarch and his prime minister, the Duke provoked the enmity of both, and was
brought to trial, condemned, and beheaded, in 1522. How much of the Castle was
completed is not clearly specified; but Leland, who visited it soon after the Duke's
decapitation, gives this account. " Edward, late Duke of Bukkyngeham, likynge
the soyle about, and the site of the house, pullyd downe a greete parte of the olde
house, and sette up magnificently in good squared stone the southe syde of it, and
accomplished the weste parte also in a right comely gate-howse to the first soyle ;
and so it stondethe yet withe a rofe forced for a tyme. This inscription on the
fronte of the gate-howse—' This Gate was begun in the year of our Lorde God 1511,
architectural antiquities.
says, that " the greatest length runs from north to south." The south side is
184 feet; north, 187; west, 131; and east, 125. The chief entrance was on the
east side, and there were two other entrance doors. Bolton Castle is seated on an
eminence, in the North-Riding of the county of York, six miles from Middleham
and ten from Richmond. In the south-west tower was confined the unfortunate and
persecuted Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1568 ; but her residence in this place was not
of long duration. Her malignant and unfeeling persecutor had her removed to
Tutbury Castle, in Staffordshire, under the care of the Earl of Shrewsbury. In the
civil wars between King Charles and his Parliament, Bolton Castle was valiantly
defended by Colonel Scrope, and a party of the Richmondshire Militia, against the
Parliamentary forces.
CJornfrurp Castle,
gloucestershire.
The origin and history of this castellated mansion are well authenticated. Edward
Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who was betrayed by his own domestics, and
sacrificed to the resentment of the imperious Wolsey, commenced this ducal palace
about the year 1511, on the site of a " maner place," which had been raised by
Hugh Audley, Earl of Gloucester. Erom what remains of the present edifice, it is
evident that the Duke intended to have built it on a very spacious and magnificent
scale ; one that should rival, in size and architectural ornament, the cotemporary
palaces of Nonsuch, Richmond, and Hampton-Court. In thus daring to emulate
the monarch and his prime minister, the Duke provoked the enmity of both, and was
brought to trial, condemned, and beheaded, in 1522. How much of the Castle was
completed is not clearly specified; but Leland, who visited it soon after the Duke's
decapitation, gives this account. " Edward, late Duke of Bukkyngeham, likynge
the soyle about, and the site of the house, pullyd downe a greete parte of the olde
house, and sette up magnificently in good squared stone the southe syde of it, and
accomplished the weste parte also in a right comely gate-howse to the first soyle ;
and so it stondethe yet withe a rofe forced for a tyme. This inscription on the
fronte of the gate-howse—' This Gate was begun in the year of our Lorde God 1511,