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Title: Windsor castle
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917 Haslehust, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866- ill
Subjects: Windsor Castle
Publisher: London (etc.) : Blackie and son, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ew, Garter, and Salisbury towers were cleaned 48 WINDSOR away. Thus in four years the exterior of the Castle,shaken more free of the little town clambering andclustering about it, was brought to its present state,which may or may not have blasted the hopes ofthe author of this epigram: Let restless George who can leave nothing quiet,Change if he will the good old name of Wyatt:But let us hope that their united skillMay not make Windsor Castle Wyatville. The Tomb House was converted by Queen Vic-toria and Sir Gilbert Scott into the Albert MemorialChapel, on the death of the Prince Consort in 1861.As a memorial to the same prince, the mullions wererestored to the east window of St. Georges Chapelin 1863. Queen Victoria lived much at Windsor,and in her time the interior of the Castle attainedits present height of costliness and domesticity.The majesty without and the splendour withinanswer fully to the expectations usually foundedupon a reading of history and a sober loyalty tothe Crown.
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o I/) Q z o as u. LU -_ _J O uz o I— _ WINDSOR FOREST AND PARK In the Conquerors time and before, it must havebeen hard to say what was Windsor Forest, orwhat was not, on the south side of the middle courseof the Thames. After choosing the mound of Windsorfor a castle, William enlarged the Forest so thatit included a great part of Berkshire, as far westas Hungerford; some of Buckinghamshire, which ison the north side; parts of Middlesex, Oxfordshire,and Hampshire, and in Surrey both banks of theWey as far as Guildford. The Forest and the riversurrounded and isolated the Castle on every side.The Forest was named after Windsor from earlytimes, but was also sometimes called Oakinghamor Wokingham Forest. All this wild virgin countryof heath, swamp, tangled wood, and high land heldmany deer for the kings hunting, and fattened manyswine. Partly by the number of swine feeding init the value of a forest was estimated; and the rightto send swine among the acorns of Windsor wasretained or acq

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