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Title: Historic Warwickshire: its legendary lore, traditionary stories, and romantic episodes
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Burgess, Joseph Tom, 1828-1886
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London Simpkin, Marshall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, hee liveth yet untoposterity as who, beeing rannged in the catalogue of oursaints, hath among the multitude received Divinehonors; and whose life is by an ancient writer set out ina good poeme, out of which let it bee no offence to iput downe these few verses following touching themurderer who, upon an ambitious desire of the kingdom,slew him :— Non sperans visio Fremundo, regis honor optato ae posse sui,melitur in ejusImmeritan tacito mortem, gladioque profamisServio exerto servus, dominique jacentisTale nihil veritum sano caput amput ab ictioTatis apud Wydford Fremundum palma eoronat,Dum simul et sontes occidit, et o.;eidit, informis. Past hope, whiles Fremund lived to speed of wished regalty.All secret and unworthy means he plots to make him dye,With naked sword, prophane, slane he, assaileth cowardlyHis lord nnwares, and as he lay beheads him cruelly.At Wydford thus Prince Fremund did his glorious crown attaine,Whiles slaying guilty lolke, at once himself is guiltlesse slaine.
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±-- <ofr<\ jSjg^ oy KQn.yuWo^j5-^. •: Ej)e (feat &tecjr of 3&entlfoortfj* The story of the first commoner who married a princessof England is one of the most romantic episodes in thehistory of our land. The hoary walls of Kenilworthhave no hetter story to tell. The desolate halls do notspeakof this, but the tall keep frowned on the scene, andthe boundary walls then, as now, marked the extent ofthe wards of this great midland fortress. The castlewas but little more than a century old when it came intothe hands of Simon deMontfort, as part of his wifes dower.It owed its existence to Geoffry de Clinton, the chamber-lain of Henry I., and we know it was erected betweenthe years 1123 and 1125. To this period the great keep,now known as Caesars Tower, must be ascribed. Thecastle was garrisoned for the King in the reign of HenryII., during the struggle between him and his sons, and thesoldiers remained within the walls for seventy-seven days.In 1184, the walls were repaired a

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