. Vanishing England . lwarks and lines to be diggeddown, the grafts [ moats] filled, the drawbridge tobe pulled up, and all levelled. I sent away the greatguns, the granadoes, fireworks, and ammunition, whereofthere was good store in the fort. I procured pay for mysoldiers, and many of them undertook the service inIreland. This is doubtless typical of what went onin many other houses. The famous royal manor-houseof Woodstock was left battered and deserted, and haunted, as the readers of Woodstock will remember,by an adroit and humorous royalist named JoeCollins, who frightened the commissi
. Vanishing England . lwarks and lines to be diggeddown, the grafts [ moats] filled, the drawbridge tobe pulled up, and all levelled. I sent away the greatguns, the granadoes, fireworks, and ammunition, whereofthere was good store in the fort. I procured pay for mysoldiers, and many of them undertook the service inIreland. This is doubtless typical of what went onin many other houses. The famous royal manor-houseof Woodstock was left battered and deserted, and haunted, as the readers of Woodstock will remember,by an adroit and humorous royalist named JoeCollins, who frightened the commissioners away by 1 History of Oxfordshire, by J. Meade Falkner. INTRODUCTION 9 his ghostly pranks. In 1651 the old house was guttedand almost destroyed. The war wrought havoc withthe old houses, as it did with the lives and otherpossessions of the conquered. But we are concerned with times less remote, with thevanishing of historic monuments, of noble specimens ofarchitecture, and of the humble dwellings of the poor, the. Hn^fffuiliill ilil Jil>
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