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  Thomas Tusser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At a very early age he became a chorister in the collegiate chapel of the castle of Wallingford, Berkshire.
He appears to have been pressed for service in the King's Chapel, the choristers of which were usually afterwards placed by the king in one of the royal foundations at Oxford or Cambridge.
He was elected to King's College, Cambridge, in 1543, a date which has fixed the earliest limit of his birth-year, as he would have been ineligible at nineteen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Tusser   (513 words)

  
 Charlemagne to June Murdock Shaputis - Generations 11 to 20
Robert died 31 Oct 1147, Cardiff castle, Bristol, Eng of fever, buried: Priory of St James, Bristol, "the Consul".
Windsor castle?, England, buried: Westminister Abbey, England, unmarried, born deaf and dumb.
Her husband was Lord of Badenoch, co-Regent of Scotland with his father-in-law, John de Baliol during minority of Alexander III, King of Scots.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/6025/charlemagne2.htm   (4588 words)

  
 Larbalestier Family Home Page
Others of the same name held their land by serving at Wallingford Castle with an arbalest by guarding Exeter Goal or by providing two arbalests.
The crossbow was looked upon as a most cruel and barbarous weapon, and Pope Innocent III forbade its use among Christian nations (Lateran Council of 1139), but sanctioned it in fighting infidels.
Richard I introducded the crossbow into the English army against the wish of the Pope; and, he being killed a few years later by a shot from one whilst besieging the castle of Chaluz, his death was considered as a judgement from heaven inflicted on him for his impious condcut.
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 de Lacy ©
Much to his stupidity, he had the slaves building the castle (ah, the Irish) steal quarry stones from a monestary in the area--which went all the way back to St. Patrick in the 600s.
The de Lacys finished the TRIM castle in approx the 1230s.--Until then, most were of stick and stone.
Thus the TRIM castle built upon the hill, became the garrison for the knights and archers.
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 Magna Carta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This doesn't reflect the unanimous displeasure of John's rule, as popular history reports, certainly not as much as we are led to believe by the Magna Carta, and its caricature of history.
John's strong ring around London with castles at Norwich, Wisbech, Cambridge, Nottingham, Oxford, Wallingford, Corfe, Winchester, Dover and his base at Windsor presented a formidable stance circling London.
The Magna Carta Surety Barons were now landless, without castles, as well as excommunicated, including Lord Fitzwalter, the Marshall of God, and self appointed governor of London.
www.genealogyweb.com /magna.htm   (5284 words)

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