Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . e thedefcription quoted above was given of them by , in his Hiftory of Norfolk, gives many pages of thegifts of churches, manors, lands, tithes, &:c., by men andwomen of eftate, to this priory. The Church of Caftleacre, which formerly belonged to thepriory, is a large regular building, in which lie buried, amongftother ancients, the remains of Old Paine, of Caftleacre, whowas ftandard-bearcr to Henry VIII. A little towards the eaftof the priory ftood the caftle of the Earls of Warren and Surrey,on a rifing ground, includ
Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . e thedefcription quoted above was given of them by , in his Hiftory of Norfolk, gives many pages of thegifts of churches, manors, lands, tithes, &:c., by men andwomen of eftate, to this priory. The Church of Caftleacre, which formerly belonged to thepriory, is a large regular building, in which lie buried, amongftother ancients, the remains of Old Paine, of Caftleacre, whowas ftandard-bearcr to Henry VIII. A little towards the eaftof the priory ftood the caftle of the Earls of Warren and Surrey,on a rifing ground, including within its fortifications and out-works about eighteen acres of ground in a circular form. Nodoubt it was in this ftrong place that the Earl Warren of 128 CASTLEACRE PRIORY. Edward time received the royal commiffioners, and pro-duced his fword as his title to his eftates. In this caftle theearl received the king, Edward I. himfelf, in 1297; and itappears to have been his favourite refidence, although he had140 lordfliips in Norfolk CASTLEACRE PRIORY : INTERIOR. On the death of John, Earl Warren, in 1347, in the twenty-fixth year of the reign of Edward III., the eftates and titlepafTed to his nephew, Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, thefon of his fifter Alice, and the title thence became Surrey andArundel. His fon Richard, Earl of Surrey and Arundel,rendering great fervices to Richard II., received a confiderable CASTLEACRE PRIORY. 1 29 grant of money for thefe fervices ; yet, in the twenty-firft yearof the fame king, he was attainted and beheaded, and his eftatesand this manor granted to his fon-in-law, Thomas Mowbray,Earl-Marflial and Earl of Nottingham, afterwards Duke ofNorfolk, who is faid to have been fo inhuman as to bind uphis father-in-laws eyes, and become his executioner. The earldom of Arundel paiTed by marriage into the familyof the Duke of Norfolk ; but CafHeacre was fold by Henry,Earl of Arundel, in the firft year of Queen Elizabeth, to SirTho
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