Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . Hurftmonceux URSTMONCEUX CASTLE is remark-able as being a caftle built of brick, andperhaps one of the oldeft buildings of thatmaterial in the kingdom, except fuch asare of Roman origin. It was built in thereign of Henry VI., but, as is fuppofed,on the fite of a manor-houfe which hadexifted there from very early times. The eftate fell into thehands of a Norman lord at the Conqueft ; and in the MagnaBritannia we have this hiftory of it and its poflefTors : — Hurftmonceux, a village fituate among the woods, beingfrom its woody fit
Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . Hurftmonceux URSTMONCEUX CASTLE is remark-able as being a caftle built of brick, andperhaps one of the oldeft buildings of thatmaterial in the kingdom, except fuch asare of Roman origin. It was built in thereign of Henry VI., but, as is fuppofed,on the fite of a manor-houfe which hadexifted there from very early times. The eftate fell into thehands of a Norman lord at the Conqueft ; and in the MagnaBritannia we have this hiftory of it and its poflefTors : — Hurftmonceux, a village fituate among the woods, beingfrom its woody fituation called at firft Herft ; for the Saxonscalled a wood Hyrft. This place, foon after the coming in ofthe Normans, was the feat of a family of gentlemen who tooktheir name from the place, and were called de Hurft for fomefucceflions, till William, the fon of Walleran de Hurft, forwhat reafon is not known, took the name of Monceux, whichwas at length annexed, for diftinftions fake, to the villageitfelf, and fo it hath been long called Hurft-Monceux. Johnde Fiennes, male
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