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Viscount Lovel, having been attainted by Henry VII, 

 headed a rebellion against bim, and was supposed to bave 

 been killed at tbe battle of Stoke, in 1487 ; but, according 

 to another rumour, escaped by swimming tbe Trent, never 

 appeared again, and was said to bave been starved to death 

 by treachery. A curious discovery was made at Minster 

 Lovel, near Burford, in 1708, of an Underground vault, in 

 wbicb was tbe skeleton of a man apparently sitting at a 

 table, with book, pen, &c, before him — all much de- 

 cayed — considered by tbis family to have been this 

 Lord Lovel ! 



There is no mention made of tbe Castle of Cary after the 

 12tb Century, andprobably before it passed into the hands 

 of tbe Lords Saint Maur, in 1351 (24th Edward III), it 

 bad fallen to decay. But a large manor bouse was erected, 

 by some of tbe noble proprietors of the estate, not far from 

 the site of the old Castle. Collinson says that there were 

 in bis time, " fine arches and other remains" to be seen 

 of this " stately edifice." 



Within the memory of some now living there was a 

 large arched gateway, connected with stabling on each 

 side, and a groined room, probably a banqueting room, 

 which was used in the time of the French war as a depot 

 for military stores. 



In this manor house it was that Charles II is said to 

 have slept, on bis eseape into the AVest, after the disas- 

 trous battle of Worcester. He had safely pursued his 

 journey from Col. Lane's, at Bentley, to Col. Norton's, at 

 Leigh Court, near Bristol, disguised as Mrs. Jane Lane's 

 postilion, that lady riding on a pillion behind the monarch, 

 who went by the name of William Jackson. From Leigh 

 Court the royal fugitive came to Castle Cary, on the 16th 



