The history of Banbury : including copious historical and antiquarian notices of the neighborhood . was once appoynted to be imployed towardsthe Repayringe of the said Gate house. And the repayringe of thesaid Castell will cost aboue fyftie pound.^ In an inquisition madein the 4tli year of James the First (1606) we find a MansionHouse within the inner gates of the same Castle, twenty-threebays covered with lead : the outermost gate six bays covered (43) Itin. Curios., p. 48. _ (44) Lelands Itin., v. 4, pt. 2, fol. 103 b. (45) Mill ham is still a common name given to the small meadow usually at
The history of Banbury : including copious historical and antiquarian notices of the neighborhood . was once appoynted to be imployed towardsthe Repayringe of the said Gate house. And the repayringe of thesaid Castell will cost aboue fyftie pound.^ In an inquisition madein the 4tli year of James the First (1606) we find a MansionHouse within the inner gates of the same Castle, twenty-threebays covered with lead : the outermost gate six bays covered (43) Itin. Curios., p. 48. _ (44) Lelands Itin., v. 4, pt. 2, fol. 103 b. (45) Mill ham is still a common name given to the small meadow usually attached to amill. (46) Inquisition 6th Edw. VI., which will be given hereafter. (47) Memorandum of the above date at the foot of a Particular in the Augmentation Office. BANBURY CASTLE. 65 with slate : one close called the Stewe by estimation one acre :and one other close of pasture called the Castle Orcharde byestimation three acres.* A plan of the site of the Castle, madein 1685 (some years after the building was taken down), and fromwhich the following is reduced, gives the measurement of the. BANBURY TWONE PLAN OF THE SITE OF BANBURY CASTLE, 1685. Castle itself 3 roods and 3 perches, and that of the grounds andoutworks 13a. 1r. 14p., not including the mills &c. The upperpart of the plan is due north. The Cherwell flowed at a short (48) Inquisition 4th Jas. I. hereafter. (49) The property of Lord Saye and Sele, and now in the possession of W. Walford part marked (H) in the above reduced plan, is called, in the original, house and gardens. I bb BANBURY CHURCH.—BISHOP ALEXANDER. distance on the east, turning the mills and receiving the wastewater from the moat. That this Castle, which was the frequentabode of the great Bishops of Lincoln, was a magnificent work ofits day, there can be no question: that it was a formidable placeof defence we have the proofs arising from its importance duringthe Civil Wars, and the gallant stand which the Royalists madethere, in the mid
Size: 1451px × 1721px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, bookidhistoryofbanbury00bees
