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Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle
Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle Author:Charles Heath Subtitle: With a Variety of Other Particulars, Deserving the Stranger's Notice, Relating to That Much Admired Ruin, and Its Neighbourhood : Collected From Original Papers, and Unquestionable Authorities General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: Printed and sold by him : sold also at the castle, a... more »t the inn, and by Longman and Co., London Subjects: Castles Architecture / History / Medieval History / Europe / Great Britain Juvenile Nonfiction / Architecture Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Medieval Juvenile Fiction / Royalty Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX IS CAMP. Tradition has preserved the situation it occupied, for the spot of ground . from whence his letters to the Marquis of Worcester are dated, retains the name of the Leaguer fields at the present day, and forms a part of Mr. Miles's and Mr. Jefferies's farms: From a survey of the place, it appears that the Parliament army commenced the siege with the most certain hope of speedily reducing the garrison to their authority, as no remains of entrenchments, or other shelter from the arms of their, enemies, are to be traced in any of the fields which the writer has walked over. It occupied a ridge of land in the park, about half a mile, or rather more, to the eastward of the Castle, being the most convenient eminence from which it could be approached, with this particular recommendation, a near and plentiful supply of water. Mr. E. JefFeries .(whose ancestors had rented and lived on the estate he occupied for many generations), informed me, that in a piece of land near the Leaguer, called the " Forest Field," he had found great quantities of mus- quet balls, when ploughing it for ...« less