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man-traps, the fossil tibia of an elephant from Egypt, iron swords 
and pikes, &c. 
Having done full justice to the hostess’ excellent repast, the 
Rev. Canon Ellacombe gave the company a brief résumé of the 
history of Sudeley Castle, and stated that of the building 
originally constructed in the reign of King Stephen only a very 
small remnant existed in the base of one of the towers. Con- 
siderable parts of the second structure by Sir Ralph le Boteler, 
Baron of Sudeley, Lord Treasurer and High Admiral to Henry 
VI., still remain. Originally it consisted of two spacious quad- 
rangles, lying N. and S., with embattled towers on the W. side, 
and a banqueting hall and octagon tower on the E., on which 
side externally were also a chapel and pleasaunce. In 1469, on 
the success of the Yorkists, Lord Sudeley being a Lancastrian 
was compelled to surrender his castle to the King, Edward IV., 
who granted it to his brother the Duke of Gloucester, later on in 
1483 King Richard III. On the succession of the Tudors Henry 
VII. granted the Castle to his uncle Jasper, Duke of Bedford, 
but it again fell to the Crown, and in 1547 Edward VI. presented 
it to Sir Thomas Seymour, who had wed, as fourth husband, the 
widowed Queen, Catherine Parr, and created him Lord Seymour, 
of Sudeley. The Queen died after giving birth to a daughter 
two years after marriage, and is buried in the chapel, where the 
late owner of the Castle, Mr. J. C. Dent, has caused to be erected 
an extremely beautiful monument in alabaster and marble. This 
Lord Seymour afterwards was attainted and lost his head, and 
his Castle was granted to William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, 
who soon forfeited it, and Queen Mary presented it to one of her 
strenuous supporters, Sir John Bridges, Kt., of Coberley, whom 
in 1554 she made Lord Chandos of Sudeley, Queen Elizabeth 
paid several visits to the third Lord Chandos of this Castle, and 
King Charles I. was the guest of George, the sixth lord, in 1643. 
The following year Sir William Waller took it after several 
assaults, and in 1649 it was dismantled and became a quarry for 
