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. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. HEVER CASTLE, ever Castle is situated in that district of the County ofKent called the Weald. It was erected in the time ofEdward III., by William de Hevre, who had obtained theKings license to embattle his Manor-house ; dying soonafterwards, the estate was inherited by his two daughters;one of whom married a younger son of the Lord Cobham,who purchased the remainder, and by whose grandson thewhole was disposed of to Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, a wealthymercer of London, who was Lord Mayor of the City in the37th Henry
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. HEVER CASTLE, ever Castle is situated in that district of the County ofKent called the Weald. It was erected in the time ofEdward III., by William de Hevre, who had obtained theKings license to embattle his Manor-house ; dying soonafterwards, the estate was inherited by his two daughters;one of whom married a younger son of the Lord Cobham,who purchased the remainder, and by whose grandson thewhole was disposed of to Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, a wealthymercer of London, who was Lord Mayor of the City in the37th Henry VI. He was the founder of a family, whoseshort-lived power forms a brilliant but melancholy page inBritish History. His grandson, Thomas, the father of theunfortunate Anne, was created, by Henry VIII., Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond ; but dyingwithout issue male (his son having been executed during his lifetime), his remorselessson-in-law seized on the estates in right of his late wife, which in the 32nd year ofhis reign, he granted, for her life, to Ml Anne of Cleves, the wife he had thenrepu
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