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Title: The London & North-Western Railway
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Eyre-Todd, George, 1862-1937
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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owed has been immortalized on the stage byShakespeare in his Richard II., and, as a picture ofone of the dramatic events which happened in earlytimes in these old castles, it may be repeated here astold by the annalist Stowe. The Duke of Lancaster, says this writer, enteredthe castle all armed, his helmet excepted ; King Richardcame down to meet him, and the Duke, as soon as hesaw the King, fell on his knees, and, coming nearer untohim, he kneeled a second time with his hat in his hand,and the King then put off his hood, and spoke first :c Fair cousin of Lancaster, you are right welcome. The Duke, bowing low to the ground, answered :4 My lord, I am come before you sent for me ; thereason why I will show you. The common fameamong your people is such that ye have, for the spaceof twenty, or two-and-twenty years, ruled them veryrigorously, but if it please our Lord, I will help you togovern better. The King answered : Fair cousin of Lancaster,sith it pleaseth you, it pleaseth me well. 40
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OS - E o 73 c PS The Castles of Old Wales The Duke then, with a high sharp voice, badebring forth the Kings horses, and then two little nags,not worth forty francs, were brought forth. TheKing was set on one, and the Earl of Salisbury on theother, and thus the Duke brought the King fromFlint to Chester, where he was delivered to the Dukeof Gloucesters son —the Duke of Gloucester hadbeen driven to exile and death by Richard— who ledhim straight to the castle, whence, after one nightsrest, he was conveyed to London. All the world knows what followed—the depositionof Richard in Westminster Hall, his imprisonment atPontefract, and his murder there, or perhaps hisescape to the Hebrides, and long exile in the hands ofthe Duke of Albany in Scotland. At a later day, on the outbreak of the Civil Wars ofCharles I., Flint Castle was garrisoned by Sir RogerMostyn for the King. This stout knight, who spent.£60,000 for King Charles, and who in twelve hoursraised 1,500 men for the royal army,

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