of 0 XFO%p^S Hl%E. 
worthy Friend Mr. C'^jrj/ of Wood§Jock (whom yet I found incli- 
ned to believe fome fuch thing) being at London^ whereby other- 
wife it pofTibly might have been proved, and the teftimony of the 
feople being too weak an evidence to build upon ; 1 have rather 
chofen to forbear, then add a Coronet to the place. 
135. Befidethe i'dfxo^ and P^/^i/?' Fortifications above-men- 
tioned, there are others here in Oxford-fiire 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 fliort ac- 
count of them. To pafs by therefore the Ca§ile of Oxford^ fo 
well known to be built by Robert d'Oyly who came in with the Con- 
queror^ and the Caftles ofBamfton and Banbury fpoken of before : 
thefirft thatprefentsit felf to my confideration, is the old ^r^y?/g 
of Deddington^ formerly Dathington which I take to be ancient, 
and the very place no queftion to which Aymer de Valence^ Earl of 
Pembroke^ brought Piers de Gavefton the great Favorite of King 
Edward the Second, and there left him to the fury of the Earls of 
Lancafler^ Warmck^ znd Hereford^ who cmying him to Warwick.-, 
after fome time,caufed bim to be beheaded in a place called Blak- 
law^ in their own prefence'^. 
136. Secondly, the Caflle of Ardley^ the Foundations where- 
of are yet to be feen in a little Wood weft of the Town^ which if 
any heed may be given to the tradition of the place, florifli'd a- 
bout the time of King Stephen: and fo perhaps thirdly, might 
Chipfing-norton Czi^le ; free leave being given at the beginning of 
his Reign, to all his Subjefts to build them Caflles^ to defend him 
and them againft Maud the Emprefi^which at laft, finding ufed fom- 
times againft himfelf^ he caufed no lefs than eleven hundred of 
thefe new built Cafiles 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 M'lddleton- 
ftony^ 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- 
ritancehy defcentfrom his Father \ And fifthly, as for the ru- 
ins of old Fortifications at CraumerpJ^ or Qroamip Giffard near 
8 ThomnsdelaMoorinWfi.vlttec!^ mortis Edv,2. inprincipio. ^ Jbi.dem. ' See Mr. D»gt//t/i?'i Ba- 
ronage of M.^igland. voli-Bar.CamviL 
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