Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . ition, and on the 29th the young king wascrowned. He was by Parliament placed under the regency ofhis mother, the licentious Ifabella, and fhe was herfelf underthe abfolute influence of Roger Mortimer, the gentleMortimer; fo that Edward in his folitary prifon had themortification of hearing that his wife, who had defpifed andhelped to put him down, and her paramour, were aftuallyreigning in his ftead. But they did not forget him, though henow appeared fo impotent: they were afraid that there might befome revulfion in his favour, efpecial
Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . ition, and on the 29th the young king wascrowned. He was by Parliament placed under the regency ofhis mother, the licentious Ifabella, and fhe was herfelf underthe abfolute influence of Roger Mortimer, the gentleMortimer; fo that Edward in his folitary prifon had themortification of hearing that his wife, who had defpifed andhelped to put him down, and her paramour, were aftuallyreigning in his ftead. But they did not forget him, though henow appeared fo impotent: they were afraid that there might befome revulfion in his favour, efpecially as the clergy had theboldnefs to denounce from the pulpit the fcandalous connectionof Ifabella and Mortimer. They complained that the Earl of KEMLWORTH CASTLE. 9 Lancafter favoured the depofed king too much, thoughLancafter had the memory of the death of his brother to preventtoo much lenity. But Lancafter was a humane and honour-able man j Edward was, therefore, taken out of his hands, andput into thofe of Sir John Maltravers, a man of a fierce and. KENILWORTH CASTLE: BANQUETING HALL. favage temperament, fmarting under grievous wrongs fromthe king and his favourites. This brutal executioner removedthe unhappy monarch from Kenilworth, carried him fromcaftle to caftle, heaped the moft cruel indignities on him, and c lO KENILWORTH CASTLE. completed the horrible tragedy at Berkeley Caftle in a mannerwhich yet fhrielcs through hiftory. Edward III. reftored the caftle and eftate of Kenilworth toHenry, Earl of Lancafter, for his fervices in placing him onthe throne, and in the removal of the late king. By hismarriage with Blanche, the grand-daughter of this earl, Johnof Gaunt, the fon of Edward III., became poflefled of Kenil-worth, with the title of Duke of Lancafter. To him the caftleowed both extenfion and improvement. The great BanquetingHall is faid to have been of his ereilion, with moft of thofeportions of the caftle called the Lancafter Buildings, formingthe weftern fide o
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