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	Great Officer of State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lord Chancellor has the greatest range of functions: he is the Keeper of the Great Seal, the Speaker of the House of Lords, the most senior judge in England and Wales, and a cabinet minister responsible for the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Department for Constitutional Affairs).
		The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords, but the Act provided that the Lord Great Chamberlain and Earl Marshal be exempt from such a rule, so that they may continue to carry out their ceremonial functions in the House of Lords.
		The Dukes of Argyll are the Hereditary Masters of the Household.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Officer_of_State (1005 words)

	Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The residences of the aristocracy were close to the imperial palace, followed by petty officials, artisans, store-keepers, and commoners.
		They raised their mighty castle at Edo, present-day Tokyo, the capital of Japan and one of the largest cities in the world.
		Her shrine is no opulent palace, but a humble, unpainted structure made of cypress wood with reed-thatched roofs, mirroring the Japanese love of simplicity.
	www.uwplatt.edu /%7Estradfot/asia393/KaranJapan3a.html (19880 words)

	japan24
		Its palaces and temples, several of which remain to this day, displayed a grand style that, against the background of the surrounding pine-covered hills, made it "a city of cinnabar and green." The emperors who ruled from Nara lived in true imperial grandeur.
		By the middle of the 11th century bushi families were serving both as keepers of peace in the provinces and as participants in the factional disputes that began to divide the court aristocracy.
		The warfare of the Sengoku period was concerned mainly with the consolidation of the daimyo domains and the struggle among the daimyo for land and regional influence.
	www.geocities.co.jp /SilkRoad/2832/japan24.html (5592 words)

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		The Normans seized all the lands, all the castles, all the pleasant mansions, all the churches and monasteries.
		The hereditary principle, rightly cherished among the landlords, so conservative in its influence, ought to be equally encouraged among the tenants.
		In the morning he was the subtle pretender to the Irish throne; in the afternoon, when the wine was in him, he was a dissolute savage, revelling in sensuality with his unhappy countess, uncoupled from her horseboy to wait upon his pleasure.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/4/5/6/14562/14562.txt (16251 words)

	Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period, by Paul Lacroix
		Servitude was in fact to be found in all conditions and ranks, equally in the palace of the sovereign as in the dwellings of his subjects.
		The offices and fiefs having become hereditary, the order of nobility followed as a consequence; and it then became highly necessary for families to keep their genealogical histories, not only to gratify their pride, but also to give them the necessary titles for the feudal advantages they derived by birth.
		Around the main body of the building were arranged the dwellings of the officers of the palace, either foreigners or Romans, and those of the chiefs of companies, who, according to Germanic custom, had placed themselves and their warriors under the King, that is to say, under a special engagement of vassalage and fidelity.
	library.beau.org /gutenberg/1/0/9/4/10940/10940-h/10940-h.htm (14687 words)

	Cleghorn and Lindsay Castles - Castle Quest
		The castle at Crawford was first recorded as early as 1175, and from an early date the hereditary keepers were the Carmichaels of Meadowflat.
		From the 13th century the Barony and castle were the property of the Lindsays.
		On the King’s death in 1542 the forfeiture was revoked, and the estate and castle reclaimed by the Earl of Angus.
	www.castlesontheweb.com /quest/Forum7/HTML/000624.html (659 words)

	Sons of the Soil Honore de Balzac
		There are no regular lines about the castle except in the centre building, from which projects a stately portico with double flights of curving steps, and round balusters slender at their base and broadening at the middle.
		But being, as we have seen, sheltered and protected by the keepers, they showed no conscience in their proceedings,--entering vineyards before the harvesters were out of them, just as they swarmed into the wheat-fields before the sheaves were made.
		Brunet, anxious not to witness this manoeuvre, which he readily foresaw, rushed after the keeper to help him up; then he placed him on the bank and wet his handkerchief in water to wash the eyes of the poor fellow, who, in spite of his agony, was trying to reach the brook.
	jollyroger.com /library/SonsoftheSoilbyHonoredeebook.html (17860 words)

	The House of Stewart
		The name Stewart was a hereditary title bestowed by David I. Marjorie died giving birth to Robert II, the founder of the Stewart dynasty and the grandson of Robert the Bruce.
		Crichton (the keeper of Edinburgh castle) and Livingstone (the keeper of Stirling Castle) murdered the 6th Earl of Douglas (a great-grandson of Robert III) and his brother at the Great Hall of Edinburgh where they had been invited to banquet.
		Mary was a baby when she was crowned at Stirling Castle, the only legitimate child of James V who died immediately after her birth.
	www.themolloys.net /molloy/scotland/the%20house%20of%20stewart/the%20house%20of%20stewart.htm (13846 words)

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		The main entrance to the castle was on this floor and was reached by means of timber stairs ascending from the courtyard.
		This magical castle was the highlight of a recent tour of the UK and Scotland and even surpassed the Edinburgh tattoo as a place I would love to return to but lets not tell too many people and keep it to ourselves.
		The castle was built in 1220 by Alexander II as a defense against the Vikings.
	www.castles.org /castles/Europe/Western_Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Eilean_Donal-Highlands/index.htm (1359 words)

	Articles About Ireland
		Shrule Castle, on the Carlow borders, which was the principal seat of the Hartepoles and home of the historian William Lecky was demolished in the 1940s.
		It was however lower down in the castle that "It" was seen - an elemental force of evil with the head of a sheep and the smell of death.
		The castle had been built in the 17th century by Dr. Colville, a Royalist during the Cromwellian period, a Puritan with a taste for the good life and a priest who was also a necromancer.
	www.tourismresources.ie /articles (22515 words)

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		Yes, and in those castles in Spain, Prue is not the placid, breeches-patching helpmate, with whom you are acquainted, but her face has a bloom which we both remember, and her movement a grace which my Spanish swans emulate, and her voice a music sweeter than those that orchestras discourse.
		I have not yet heard of their arrival out at their castles, but I suppose they are so busy with their own affairs there, that they have no time to write to the rest of us about the condition of our property.
		He lived so exclusively in his castle, that he forgot the office down town, and one morning there came a fall, and Stunning was smashed." Titbottom arose, and stooping over, contemplated the landscape, with his head down between his legs.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/8prue10.txt (19632 words)

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		The _trichorium_, or dining-room, was generally the largest hall in the palace; two rows of columns divided it into three parts; one for the royal family, one for the officers of the household, and the third for the guests, who were always very numerous.
		The castles were naturally the first to be affected by this poetical and intellectual regeneration, although it has been too much the custom to exaggerate the ignorance of those who inhabited them.
		Thus, in the curious regulations relating to the domestic arrangements of the palace, the Queen, Jeanne de Navarre, was only allowed two ladies and three maids of honour in her suite, and she is said to have had only two four-horse carriages, one for herself and the other for these ladies.
	library.beau.org /gutenberg/1/0/9/4/10940/10940.txt (14682 words)

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		And you have the key?" And there then was that palace, to which tradition, so false at once and true, had given such magnitude and magnificence in the traditions of the Middleton family, around their shifting fireside in America.
		It had been magnified to a palace; it had dwindled down to Liliputian size; and yet, up till now, it had seemed to contain in its diminutiveness all the riches which he had attributed to its magnitude.
		Look, here is the key, and the mode of opening the outer door of the palace, as we may well call it." So saying, he threw open the outer door, and disclosed within the mimic likeness of a stately entrance hall, with a floor chequered of ebony and ivory.
	mirror.pacific.net.au /gutenberg/etext05/7ancf10.txt (17621 words)

	HISTORIC AND TITLED FAMILIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His humble, eighteenth-century "snacking" habit was seen as so unusual among the wealthy of the time, and became so typical of the earl's informal, time-pressed lifestyle, that the family's name was to be linked with it inextricably.
		MORAY, E), one of the post-Norman Conquest magnates in Britain, though himself of Breton origins, was made hereditary Great Steward of Scotland by David I, receiving the lands of Kerkert and Strathgryffe, later to be called Renfrewshire, from the king.
		For the Fitzgeralds of Glin, one of Ireland’s great landed gentry families, a captivating castle home in a 500-acre wooded demesne serves as a constant reminder of some 900 years of history, shaped by the exploits of Norman adventurers and the creation of a great Irish lordship in the province of South Munster.
	www.burkes-libraries.com /sites/common/sitepages/at-f.asp (1249 words)

	Glenn Loney's Museum Notes
		The imposing Palace Tract is flanked by the Royal Stables and Orangeries, and complemented by a facing semi-circle of elegant mansions for court officials and manufacture of Nymphenburg Porcelain.
		The sort of small castles or pavilions to which you might ride out in your stately sedan-chair or princely carriage for afternoon-tea or an hour or two of pastel-sketching.
		For audiences, the effect was of even more grand and amazing temples, palaces, and colonnades—architectural constructions which seemed to go on forever—although unseen beyond the stage-right and stage-left borders of the proscenium-arch.
	www.nymuseums.com /lonm1002.htm (13429 words)

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		The capital city was designed in a large block with the palace at the center which symbolized the concept of the "round sky and square earth." The symbolism of the square represented a sense of order for the ruling class: obedience and subordination.
		Also honored were girls who were "members of a hereditary line of priestesses." The materials found in the grave sites of queens or priestess do not represent the accumulation of private wealth, as in the later tombs of the ruling aristocracy of Egypt, but they were more of a symbolic nature.
		According to Gimbutas, she goes on to say that the henges were not like the monuments to the dead which later appeared after the "secularization of life began in Britain with Indo-European chieftains," for the chieftain's monuments were based on individual ego, pride in the self and private wealth, rather than built for communal purposes.
	www.etext.org /Politics/Neutopians/g3 (14599 words)

	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XII
		Their numbers were diminished by frequent desertion, the passes of the mountains were feebly defended; Tarsus opened its gates; and the soldiers of Florianus, when they had permitted him to enjoy the Imperial title about three months, delivered the empire from civil war by the easy sacrifice of a prince whom they despised.
		The perpetual revolutions of the throne had so perfectly erased every notion of hereditary right, that the family of an unfortunate emperor was incapable of exciting the jealousy of his successors.
		The palace, and even the Imperial table, was filled with singers, dancers, prostitutes, and all the various retinue of vice and folly.
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap12.htm (10577 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, Issue 573, October 27, ...
		The quarter where stood her uncle's palace was at the entrance of the city, and to reach it they had to traverse the principal street.
		When Giulietta arrived at her uncle's palace, she paused for a moment, not in fear but in awe, the stillness was so profound; not one familiar sound broke upon her ear.
		The doors were all open, and she entered the hall; pallets were ranged on each side, and on one or two of the small tables stood cups and phials; but not a trace appeared of an habitant.
	www.gutenberg.net /1/1/9/0/11903/11903-h/11903-h.htm (12590 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Richard II by Jacob Abbott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When his castle was finished the king brought the queen to Caernarvon to see it, and while she was there, her child, Prince Edward, who afterward became Edward the Second, was born.
		This castle of Nottingham was situated upon a hill, on the side of which was a range of excavations which had been made in a chalky stone by some sort of quarrying.
		The castle itself was strongly guarded, and every night Isabel required the warden, on locking the gates, to bring the keys to her, and she kept them by her bedside.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=abbott&book=richard2&story=predecessors (20243 words)

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		There are, in the possession of Lord Holland, two ground plans of this castle, which, by the late Lord Ossory, were supposed to have been taken about the year 1616, at which time it was supposed the castle was demolished.
		A great many years ago, there lived a lady at Oakhampton Castle, who was famous for her love of cruelty and for unbounded ostentation.
		This lady was killed, and her ghost haunted some house in Oakhampton much to the discomfiture of all the inhabitants thereof.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/13935/13935.txt (10684 words)

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		The castle in the background from the inn was either a lair of the duke of Hesse or some branch office of Monster Incorporated.
		It is a pharaonic trick to infiltrate a female asp into a palace and after poisoning all the natives there, male and female, to bring the male asps from beyond the Rhine as the legitimate kings.
		Unfortunately both queens of the exceptions are German and in both of the palaces, the female asp is preparing for a takeover in the next generation.
	www.geocities.com /touxxaint1/book4.txt (21385 words)

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		Tom examined the turnips and the lettuce with interest, and asked what they were, and if they were to be eaten; for it was only recently that men had begun to raise these things in England in place of importing them as luxuries from Holland.
		The river itself, as far as the eye could reach cityward, was so thickly covered with watermen's boats and with pleasure barges, all fringed with colored lanterns, and gently agitated by the waves, that it resembled a glowing and limitless garden of flowers stirred to soft motion by summer winds.
		There was instant silence- a deep hush; then a single voice rose- that of the messenger from the palace- and began to pipe forth a proclamation, the whole multitude standing, listening.
	www.cam.org /~salaman/morganmedia_library/morganmedia_etexts/Mark%20Twain%20-%20The%20prince%20and%20the%20pauper.TXT (14817 words)

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		A diseased nation, subject to paroxysms of insanity, and requiring 30,000 keepers, was a dangerous neighbour, as well as a serious financial burden.
		Half wolf, half fox, he lay couched in his Castle of Malepartuis, with his emissaries at Rome, at Paris, and at Edinburgh.
		It was held by one of O'Donel's kinsmen, to whom Shane, to attach him to his cause, had given his sister to wife.
	sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /ftp/pub/mirror/ibiblio/gutenberg/1/4/5/6/14562/14562.txt (16251 words)

	Sons of the Soil (tr. Katharine Prescott Wormeley) by Honore de Balzac
		palace at Versailles, and the gateway is surmounted by colossal vases.
		castle of Les Aigues stood on the banks of the Avonne.
		The rascal was continually poaching, and with nothing to fear from it.
	encyclopediaoftheself.com /classic_books_online/ssoil10.htm (15834 words)

	Prue and I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The placid Prue raises her eyes to mine with a reproof so delicate that it could not be trusted to words; and, after a moment, she resumes her knitting and I proceed.
		So, when I meditate my Spanish castles, I see Prue in them as my heart saw her standing by her father's door.
		He lived so exclusively in his castle, that he forgot the office down town, and one morning there came a fall, and Stunning was smashed.”
	www.blackmask.com /books126c/7prue.htm (20152 words)

	Arthurian Passages from Geoffrey of Monmouth
		There shall succeed the goat of the Venereal castle, having golden horns and a silver beard, who shall breathe such a cloud out of his nostrils, as shall darken the whole surface of the island.
		And as he was under more concern for his wife than himself, he put her into the town of Tintagel,** upon the sea-shore, which he looked upon as a place of great safety.
		In the process of time the king was taken ill of a lingering distemper; and meanwhile the keepers of the prison, wherein Octa and Eosa (as we related before) led a weary life, had fled over with them into Germany, and occasioned great fear over the kingdom.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/geofhkb.htm (20773 words)

	Articles - Hereditary Keepers of Palaces and Castles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Palace of Holyroodhouse - the Duke of Hamilton
		Stirling Castle - the Earl of Mar and Kellie
		The Keeper of Dumbarton Castle and the Governor of Edinburgh Castle are non-hereditary offices.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Hereditary_Keepers_of_Palaces_and_Castles (100 words)

	The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain
		He inspected his napkin curiously, and with deep interest, for it was of a very dainty and beautiful fabric, then said with simplicity-- "Prithee, take it away, lest in mine unheedfulness it be soiled." The Hereditary Diaperer took it away with reverent manner, and without word or protest of any sort.
		At nine in the evening the whole vast river-front of the palace was blazing with light.
		The river itself, as far as the eye could reach citywards, was so thickly covered with watermen's boats and with pleasure-barges, all fringed with coloured lanterns, and gently agitated by the waves, that it resembled a glowing and limitless garden of flowers stirred to soft motion by summer winds.
	jollyroger.com /library1/ThePrinceandthePauperbyebook.html (16482 words)

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