English: Identifier: annalsantiquitie01nich

Title: Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales; containing a record of all ranks of the gentry ... with many ancient pedigrees and memorials of old and extinct families Year: 1872 (1870s) Authors: Nicholas, Thomas, 1820-1879 Subjects: Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Reader Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: Carnarvon Castle, the Eagle Tower {from the interior). erection, which we now incorporate in our account. It will be seen that the writer ratherinclines to the old belief that the young prince was born in the Eagle Tower, shown in our

Text Appearing After Image: Carnarvon Castle, side towards the Straits (from a photo, by Bedford). engraving, against the theory set up of late that it could not have been so, although hesuspends decided judgment until further research has been made. The great rooms in the 330 CARNARVONSHIRE. upper story of that tower were built after the birth of Edward II., but that fact furnishes nodisproof that he was born in the lower part already built. This magnificent castle has been described by high authorities as the finest specimen ofcastle architecture in Great Britain. It combines the elegances of a royal residence with thefrowning grandeur of a majestic fortress. Its erection was commenced by King Edward theFirst in the year 1283, the eleventh year of his reign, and public records show that the workswere carried on for a period of thirty-eight years, ending in the fifteenth year of the reign ofEdward the Second. With the castle are connected the town walls, which are in most placesin a state of great perfection. D

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