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can only thank you for your kind attention, and promise a hearty 

 welcome to any who are thinking of paying a visit to-morrow to 

 " Ludgershall and its Castle." 



APPENDIX. 



Among the royal letters in the Tower is one addressed by Henry 

 III. to the Pope, in which be mentions that one of his reasons for 

 desiring the marriage of his sister Eleanora (afterwards wife of 

 Simon de Montfort) with William Earl of Pembroke, was that he 

 should " restore unto us the castles of Merleberg and Lutegareshall," 

 of which he had somehow become possessed ; accordingly, on his 

 betrothal, he placed them in the hands of the Papal Legate to be 

 held for the king until the consummation of the marriage. 



In June, 1274, the Queen's mother, Eleanor of Provence, with 

 her grandchildren, Eleanora, afterwards Duchess of Bar, and Henry 

 (children of Edward I.), resided at Ludgershall. While here sugar 

 and oil were sent from London for their use. — Wardrobe Roll Account, 



In 1292, Edward I. granted his daughter Mary, Abbess of Ames- 

 bury, forty oaks from the forests of Chute and Bakeholt. 



The Abbess Mary and her young cousin (daughter of Henry of 

 Lancaster, and granddaughter of Edward Crouchback, afterwards 

 Abbess of Amesbury), Isabella of Lancaster, a nun, made a pilgrimage 

 to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury. On a Tuesday they 

 reached Andover from Newbury, and thence visited Amesbury. On 

 the Wednesday they paused at Ludgershall, and remained in the 

 "royal palace there until Saturday, and thence proceeded to Stock- 

 bridge," after which their escort left them, as the road towards 

 Winchester was now considered safe. — Wardrobe Account. 



Aug. 22nd, 1305. The Abbess Mary took her young half-brothers, 

 Thomas and Edmund, to Ludgershall and stayed there some time. 



Henry de Lutgershall was entrusted with the remains of the 

 little Princess Eleanora, daughter of Edward I. and his second wife, 

 Marguerite of France, when in 1311 she was conveyed for burial 

 from Amesbury to Beaulieu. — Wardrobe Accounts of Edward II. 



