Penshurst Castle, Kent, England. Ancient manor embattled and fortified by Sir John Devereux in the 14th century, used as a hunting lodge by King Henry VIII. Home of the Sidney family. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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