. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. ld—The Lords of Ilallamshire—Seward the Dane—Earl Waltheof conjpiresagainst the King and is executed at Winchester—His Widow retains the Castle—TheFurnivals and Talbots of Shrewsbur>-—Death of John Talbot, the first Earl, at the Battleof Chantillon—Talbot at the Battle of Bosworth Field-Attachment of the Talbots to theHouse of Lancaster—Funeral of Henry VIII.—Succession of Elizabeth—Arrest of CardinalWolsey—His Arrival and Reception at Sheffield Castle, where he was taken ill—His Death-George, the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury and Marshal
. The castles, palaces, and prisons of Mary of Scotland. ld—The Lords of Ilallamshire—Seward the Dane—Earl Waltheof conjpiresagainst the King and is executed at Winchester—His Widow retains the Castle—TheFurnivals and Talbots of Shrewsbur>-—Death of John Talbot, the first Earl, at the Battleof Chantillon—Talbot at the Battle of Bosworth Field-Attachment of the Talbots to theHouse of Lancaster—Funeral of Henry VIII.—Succession of Elizabeth—Arrest of CardinalWolsey—His Arrival and Reception at Sheffield Castle, where he was taken ill—His Death-George, the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury and Marshal of England, intrusted with the Custodiershinof Queen Mary—Her Captivity at Sheffield—Norfolks Execution—Sir H. Percy attempts torelease the Queen—The Earl of Huntingdon elected one of the Queens Keepers—Queen Marycommitted to the keeping of Sir Ralph Sadler—Queen Elizabeths Letter—Castle stormed—Heroic Conduct of Lady Savil—Castle taken and demolished—The Manor and Park left todecay—Scenery and I HE castle and to^-n of Sheffield derive their name from their propinquity to a stream called the Sheaf. YW name is • vidently of Saxon derivation, the word shea signifying water. The place on uhich the castle of Sheffield stood is a hill It th(> junction of the Sheaf with the Don. (>u the town of Sheffield rose a guarded mount, and on the mount was erected the castle of the Norman Lords of Hallamshlre. riiis name is far more ancient than Sheffield. was a part of the extensive county of York, in which the domains of the Earls of Shrcwshury were included. The Lords of Hallamshire had their residence at Sheffield Mount atleast as early as the reign of Henry IL, and the first of the two castellatederections which occupied in succession this well chosen spot, seems, \<-ithstrong circumstances of probability, to have been the auhi of theSaxon Lords of Hallam, the last of whom was Earl Waltheof, a son ofSewar
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