Author: COOPER, T.P.
Title: The History of the Castle of York.
Description: London: Elliot Stock, 1911. From its Foundation to the Present Day with an Account of the Building of Clifford's Tower. Contents include: The Norman Period - Foundation and Early History; The Plantagenet Period; Description and Disposition of the Castle, A.D.1400; Early Assize and Prison Records, Punishments, etc; Castle-Guard and Serjeanty; IX.The Castle Mills; X.The Chapel of St George by the Castle; Ruinous Condition of the Castle, in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; Royal Mint in the Castle; Clifford's Tower - Strange Vicissitudes; County Prisons Rebuilt - Literary Notices of the Castle - Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Modern Additions and Alterations - Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Local Scaffolds and Capital Punishment; County Elections, Proclamations, etc in the Castle Yard; Military Governors and Constables of the Castle; Gaolers and Prison Governors. Pp.xx/379, 45 illustrations and plans (one folding), previous owner's bookplate (Walter Flinn) to inside front board, owner's name to front free endpaper, occasional spotting throughout. Brown cloth spine with brown paper-covered boards, gilt title to spine, minor wear to base of spine and bumps to lower corners. Good.

Keywords: Cooper History Castle York Plantagenet Assize Prison Records Punishments Castle Guard Serjeanty Mills Chapel St George Ruin Royal Mint Cliffords Tower Scaffolds Elections Military Gaol 47989 Local History: : Yorkshire


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