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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e it up. When John succeeded to the kingdom hefrequently kept Christmas at the Castle, and therein 1210 he confined William de Braose of Bramberswife and son, and the sons wife, in chains until theydied of hunger and misery. A contemporary saysthat the captives were shut in a room with a sheafof wheat and a piece of raw bacon, and that ineleven days the mother was found sitting uprightbetween her sons knees, her head thrown back onhis breast, and that she had gnawed his cheek,probably after his death, as he sat with his facebowed. From Windsor John rode out to Runny-mede in June, 1215, to sign Magna Charta. Whenhe broke his faith soon after, Louis of France andthe English barons subdued all the south of Englandsave Dover and Windsor. Windsor they besiegedwith a great force under the Count de Nevers; butJohn corrupted him to treachery, and was then freeto gather an army from his garrisons and lay wastethe eastern counties, in that furious and hasty coursewhich led to his death in 1216.
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THE HUNDRED STEPS THE STORY OF THE CASTLE 23 Johns son, Henry III, was a great builder atWindsor. He raised the Bell, the Clewer, the Berners,and the Almoners Towers on the north side, andon the south-west the Garter and Salisbury Towers,completed the ditch on the west and added abarbican, and in the upper ward made two greatchambers for himself and his queen, and a chapelwith painted windows. The Kings Hall, in theClewer Tower, is now the Library of the Deanand Chapter. In 1248 Henry received the Papalnuncios at the Castle. In 1261 he kept Christmasthere with his queen and his daughter, the Queenof Scotland. It was a fine season, more like summerthan winter, and Margaret of Scotland had comethat she might bear her first child in her nativeplace. She had been born at Windsor in 1240, andspent her childhood in the Castle with her brother,afterwards Edward I, who was a year older. Marriedas a child to Alexander III, she spent an unhappygirl-wifehood in Scotland, and was not allowed tovi

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