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'Tl.pril % T^^ f^.'"'-"' 7^^"" ^'' published liis fine work 

 The Castles of England" in 1896, regretted that he could not 



r^i/r^T ''^Ti'' fl^°»t Whorlton and the other Cleveland 

 Castles. In one of his letters he remarks, " Why I wonder should 

 «iey have sought to protect a region bleak and high as CI vela 

 jvith^such a line of fortresses? It lay, too, ou^t of the line of 



nnrl inV""f ' '^'''^ ^'^''' ^'"'^ "" ''^'^'^ inhospitable district of hill 

 and dale forest and morass, with j.ractically no roads and the 

 hauiit of packs of wolves and wild a.iinials, but the newpossesso s! 

 l>llTt^ a^lyenturers, were obliged to fortify tlieir possession 

 ^n with the full consent and wish of the Conqueror, as so man; 

 •outposts and garrisons. ^ 



\..A J" t^'^^l''":"^ at Dives, in Normandy-where the Conqueror 

 had his boats built, and from whence he sailed for Enolnnrl-T 



he sailed for England— the 



1 , ■, ' ,,, '"~ >■ ^'•^ '^" t'he West end — manv 



hundreds-names well-known amongst us now, such as Harcnurt 

 theevrt ! ^^' ^""'""'^^ ' '''''' interesting memorial of 



"^!!^.^1 °^ ^"^ comimnions are painted on the West end-many 



The Cure is naturaUy anxious to preserve the fine old Norman 

 Church (as it is in part) and he makes an appeal to the inhabitants 

 of Dives as the descendants 'de Guillaume le Conqucrant' to assist 



iim As we read this some years ago, my friend remarked with a 

 laugh, I think It IS much more likely tliat we are the descendants 



de Guillaunie le Conquerant,' tlian the present inhabitants of ,,oor 

 little Dives Certainly these companions of tlie Conqueror never 

 went back to Dives, and were content to settle down and enjov 

 the wild life of England and their newly acquired lands. 



Since writing the above I have met with the following 

 information relating to the Castle in " Clarke's ]\rediEeval Mihtar^ 

 Architecture, a standard work :-In describing the English 

 Kcl)el ion in the reign of Henry II., and mentioning the rebels, he 

 mnarks: <'It included Umfraville of Prudhoe, De Yesci of 

 Alnwick, Eos of Handake, Eruce of Whorlton and Skelton, and in 

 the bouth almost all the great Barons;" and again further on 

 Killarby, A bruck-on-Tees, and Cardwell were early Castles, as 



wZ^fr'^ r7^'^"' ^"'''',' ^^^^'''y [Harlsey?], 'Sigston and 

 VVhoil on. This proves that my conjecture that there was a 

 Castle Jiere in the early Norman times is correct. 



