The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon . ??. E 1G42.] THE MARQUIS OF WOHCKSTER. r,\ a well-stocked red-deer park; also various gardensorchards, lawns, pleasure grounds, and fish-pondsartfully constructed, afibrding islands here, fountainsthere, and summer houses where they coidd be mostadvantageously placed. Thus were the demesnes ofEaglan characteristic of its noble possessors distin-guished position. The most ancient portions of the Castle itself, wereprobably raise
The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon . ??. E 1G42.] THE MARQUIS OF WOHCKSTER. r,\ a well-stocked red-deer park; also various gardensorchards, lawns, pleasure grounds, and fish-pondsartfully constructed, afibrding islands here, fountainsthere, and summer houses where they coidd be mostadvantageously placed. Thus were the demesnes ofEaglan characteristic of its noble possessors distin-guished position. The most ancient portions of the Castle itself, wereprobably raised in the reign of Henry V., others are ofmore recent construction, but not much, if anv of it,dates later than that of Elizabeth. Its mixed stylesof architecture are very obvious. Among its later im-provements were, no doubt, those large windows, whichwere better suited for an elegant domestic mansion,than for a fortress. The grand entrance was securedby its double portcullis, as likewise by a gate, lead-ing to the paved or pitched court; a portcullis alsoprotected the south-eastern entrance, leading from thefountain court to the pleasaunce or l)owling-gTeen, sup-po
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