Identifier: graphichistorica00brayuoft (find matches)
Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the Third, it was granted to John of Gaunt,Duke of Lancaster,—and it now forms part of theDuchy of Lancaster. At present, it is in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, who, as lessee from the crown of the Honour, Manor, and Forest of thePeke, has the nominal appointment of the Constable / $96 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. of the Castle. Mr. Bray, says this Castle was used for keeping the records of the Miners Courts, till they were removed to Tutbury Castle, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and he further observes, an en-trenchment which begins at the lower end of the valley, called the Cave, inclosed the town, (Castleton) ending at the great cavern, and forming a semicircle;this is now called the Town Ditch, but the whole of it cannot easily be traced, many parts having been destroyed by buildings and the plough. A, Jewitt, THE OLD ENGLISH STAGE.—No. 1. PREJUDICES AND REVERIES. THE OLD ENGLISH JESTERS; JOHN HEYWOOD, WILL. SOMMERS, AND DICKTARLETON. EARLY PAINTED SCENERY.
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THE COURT-FOOL. Amongst the civil customs and habits of the English,in times remote, those relating to public amusements,perhaps, have been the most circumstantially recorded by our ancient chroniclers. * This wood-cut is a facsimile of a portrait of a Court-Fool, selected from a group of those prankish wights, sketchedby the masterly hand of Albert Durer. Aptly enough have those who lived in ages past been designated our sport-and-pastime-lovino- fore-fathers, for with all their industry, and all their thrift,yet did they so order the affairs of life, that they were liberal in their hospitality, and apportioned a part of their time to holiday recreations. It is not possible for the senitive mind to contemplate the domestic THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. 297 history of former days, without associating therewithin the most pleasurable sensations. Every one, appa-rently, was enabled to live by his labour, the rich werebountiful, and every holiday was a universal festival. In those

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