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worthy Friend Mr. Cary of Woodcock, (whom yet I found incli- 

 ned to believe fome fuch thing) being at London, whereby other- 

 wife it poflibly might have been proved, and the teftimony of the 

 people being too weak an evidence to build upon ; 1 have rather 

 chofen to forbear, then add a Coronet to the place. 



135. Befide the Saxon and Danifh Fortifications above-men- 

 tioned, there are others here in Oxford-Jbire of a later date, either 

 quite rafed, or in a manner ufelefs, and fome of them too, known 

 but to few ; wherefore I have thought fit to give this ftiort ac- 

 count of them* To pafs by therefore the Cattle of Oxford, fo 

 well known to be built by Robert d'Oyly who came in with the Con- 

 queror, and the Caftles ofBampton and Banbury fpoken of before : 

 thefirft thatprefentsit felf to my confideration, is the old Caftle 

 of Deddington, formerly Vathington g , which I take to be ancient;, 

 and the very place no queftion to which Aymer de Valence, Earl of 

 Pembroke, brought Piers de Gave/ion the great Favorite of King 

 Edward the Second, and there left him to the fury of the Earls of 

 Lancafter, Warwick. > and Hereford, who carrying Urn to Warwick.-, 

 after fome time,caufed him to be beheaded in a place called Blakr 

 law, in their own prefence h . 



136. Secondly, the Caftle of Ardley, the Foundations where- 

 of are yet to befeen in a little Wood weft of the Town, which if 

 any heed may be given to the tradition of the place, florifh'd a- 

 bout the time of King Stephen: and fo perhaps thirdly, might 

 Chipping-norton Caftle; free leave being g^ven at the beginning of 

 his Reign, to all his Subjects to build them Caftles, to defend him 

 and'them againft Maud the Emprefs,wh\ch at laft, finding ufed fom- 

 times againft himfelf he caufed no lefs than eleven hundred of 

 thefe new built Ciftles to be rafed again, which no-doubt is the 

 caufe we find no more of them, but their bare Foundations and 

 Trenches. 



1 3 7. But fourthly, the Caftle of Middleton, now Middleton- 

 flony, was none of thefe, for I find Richard de Camvil had Li- 

 very given him of Middleton Caftle in Oxford-flAre (which muft 

 needs be this) the tenth of King John, as part of his own Inhe- 

 litanceby defcent from his Father K And fifthly, as for the ru- 

 ins of old Fortifications at Craumerfi, or Croamijb Giffard near 



* Thom/udelaMoorinHift. vita & mortis EdtJ.I. inprindpio. > Jbidem. ' See Mr. Dxgdale's Ba-< 

 ronage of England. vl- 1- Bar. Camvil. 



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