Beauties of Antiquity; Or, Remnants of Feudal Splendor and Monastic Times baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ...The following Views of the Castle of Kilgarran have been published: A South-east View, by Buck, 1740; and other Views, by Grose and Godfrey, 1774; and Mr. Gough, in his "Topography," mentions one, by William Elliot. ABERGA VENNY CASTLE, MONMOUTHSHIRE, xxxxxxx Camden gives the following account of it and its owners: "It (i. e. Abergavenny) is fortified with walls and a castle, which, (as Giraldus observes) has been oftener stained with the infamy of treachery, than any other castle of Wales: first by William, son of Earl Miles, and afterwards by William Breos; both having, upon public assurance, and under pretence of friendship, invited thither some of the Welsh nobility, and then basely murdered them: but they escaped not the just vengeance of God; for Breos, having been deprived of all his effects, (his wife and son also starved with hunger) died in exile; the other, having his brains dashed out with a stone, while Braulas Castle was on fire, received, at length, the dire reward of his villainy. The first lord of Abergavenny, that I know of, was one Hamelin Balun, who made Brien Wallingford, or Brent de L'lisle, called also Fitzcount, his heir; and he, having built here an hospital for his two sons, who were lepers, left the greatest part of his inheritance to Walter, the son of Miles, Earl of Hereford. This Walter was succeeded by his brother Henry, whom the Welsh slew when they invaded his territories, which the King's lieutenants defended, though not without great hazard and danger. By the sister of Henry it descended to the Breoses, and from them, in right of marriage, by the Cantelows and Hastings, to Regenald, Lord Grey, of Ruthen: but William Beauchamp obtained it of Lord Grey by conveyance; and he again, in default of male issue, ent...