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Hall, King’s Newnham, the residence of the Earl of 
Chichester; and Causton Hall, the residence of Mr. 
Boughton. Lastly, there were numerous moated areas, 
varying in extent from half an acre to two acres, some- 
times surrounding a mansion, but of which moated areas 
in general we have no historic account. They are, how- 
ever, so different from the ancient British and Roman 
earthworks that I cannot but assign the period of their 
formation for defensive purposes only against sudden 
aggression, and plunder, to the intestine wars, troubles, and 
commotions in the reigns of Stephen, of John, and of 
Henry II. 
I may have digressed too much in my account of the 
state of parties and of the country, as far as this county is 
concerned. When Kenilworth Castle, the Kings house at 
Kenilworth, as it was called, was abandoned early in the 
wars by the King, on account of the insufficiency of the 
garrison, it was occupied by the Parliamentarian troops, 
and I find no further account of any transactions before it. 
What had been in the 13th century a stronghold kept so 
firmly by the adherents of Simon de Montfort, the great 
Earl of Leicester, who bafiled all attempts of the Crown to 
take it by storm—for at last the garrison reduced by famine 
surrendered on terms—was now as a palatial residence 
indefensible, and rendered this the more, though in what 
year I know not, by the demolishion of one of the walls, of 
immense thickness, of that part of the Castle called Cxsar’s 
tower, which was in fact the whole of the original castle 
built by Henry de Clinton, in the reign of Henry II. It 
was at this period, I imagine, that the curious suit of Horse 
armour now exhibited at the Porters lodge at the entrance 
to Warwick Castle, a suit of the 15th century, was removed 
