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height, and 16 feet in width. The trace of an old road 

 leading into this fortress is clearly visible beneath the 

 exterior rampart. It 13 probable tbat Collinson alludes 

 to tbese works where he says, that "Henry de Tracy, 

 during the siege of 1153, threw up strong works above 

 the Castle." 



Having ascertained the position of the Castle, the next 

 question which suggests itself is who were its builders, 

 and possessors ? 



Previous to the conquest the manor of Cary is said 

 to have belonged to the Abbot of Glastonbury, being 

 given to him by Kentwine, a king of the West Saxons, 

 (a.D. 680). It was taken from the monastery by the 

 Conqueror, who seems first to have allotted it to Walter 

 de Donai.* Soon after the conquest we find it in posses- 

 sion of Robert Perceval de Breherval, Lord of Yvery, 

 Montinny, and Vasse, in Normandy. In the hands of 

 this noble fainily it continued for nearly 300 years, viz., 

 to the 25th Edward III, 1351, when it passed by a 

 feinale into the family of St. Maar ; and again by an 

 heiress to the Lord Zouche of Harringworth. When 

 Lord Zouche was attainted by King Henry VII for 

 assisting Richard III, this Castle and manor were given 

 to Lord Willoughby de Broke. The manor and lands 



* The following are the words in Dornesday Book, as quoted by Collinson 

 and Phelps : — 



" "Walter holds Cari. Elsi held it in the time of King Edward, and 

 gelded for fifteen hides. The arable is 20 carucates, (a carucate was as 

 rauch land as a teain could plough in a year, about 100 acres). There are 

 in demesne 8 hides aud 6 ploughlauds, with 6 servants, 33 villeins, and 20 

 cottagers, with 17 ploughs. There are three mills of 34 Shillings rent, and 

 100 acres of meadow. A wood 1 nrile in length, and half-a-mile in breadth, 

 and one burgess in Give'.-Chester (Ilchester), and another at Bruton, pay 

 l(i$d. When he received it, it was wortb. £16, now £15." 



Domesday Book, vol. 1, p. 95. 



