. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . WW OJIl IBM jH. :R :(Ll^V j/J. K . j 355 MANNORBEER CASTLE, PEMBROKESHrRE. (PLATE I.) JL HIS Castle was built, as is supposed, about the time of WilliamRufus, and continued in the crown from the time of King Henry theFirst to the reign of King James the First, when that King granted it tothe family of the Bowens of Trelogne, which grant was afterwards con-firmed by King Charles the First. From the Bo
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . WW OJIl IBM jH. :R :(Ll^V j/J. K . j 355 MANNORBEER CASTLE, PEMBROKESHrRE. (PLATE I.) JL HIS Castle was built, as is supposed, about the time of WilliamRufus, and continued in the crown from the time of King Henry theFirst to the reign of King James the First, when that King granted it tothe family of the Bowens of Trelogne, which grant was afterwards con-firmed by King Charles the First. From the Bowens it came bymarriage to the family of Philips of Picton Castle, and Anno 1740 wasthe property of Sir Erasmus Philips, Baronet. It is by Giraldus Cambrensis styled, the Mansion of Pyrrhus; hesays it was in his time adorned with stately towers and bulwarks;having on the west side a spacious haven, and under the walls, to thenorth and north-west, an excellent fish-pond, remarkable as well for itsneatness as the depth of its water. Leland, in his Itinerary, describes this Castle, and its situation, in thefollowing words: A little beyond this, and more than halfway betwixt Penbroke and
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