. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . Frauihiighaui Castle. Caister Castlo, In the castle of Caister there are some thirty proved men, and cunningm the war and in feats of arms; and that will shoot both gims and cross-bows, and amend and string them, and devise bulwarks, and will keep watchand ward. * These thirty men are ready to hold Caister against thethousand that have marched out of Framlingham to take that rich jewel intime of war. Are they rebels and traitors who occupy that strong place,—a few yea
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . Frauihiighaui Castle. Caister Castlo, In the castle of Caister there are some thirty proved men, and cunningm the war and in feats of arms; and that will shoot both gims and cross-bows, and amend and string them, and devise bulwarks, and will keep watchand ward. * These thirty men are ready to hold Caister against thethousand that have marched out of Framlingham to take that rich jewel intime of war. Are they rebels and traitors who occupy that strong place,—a few years before the splendid palace of the Fastolf who fought in France,—but a dismantled and gloomy fortress when the duke of Norfolk demandedits surrender ? They were simply the servants of tke legatee under the willof the old warrior; and the duke, who claimed to have purchased theproperty of two of the executors, whilst the third had possession, took thismode of asserting his title. Caister was regularly besieged, and men werekilled on either side, before it was surrendered. The great duke then makesproclamation that th
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