Note 6 — THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRIDGNORTH. PART I.

The remains of this castle were still standing when Leland visited Shropshire, in the time of Henry VIII.—“Quatford is by S. E. from Bridgnorth on Severne, where as yett appeare great Tokens of a Pyle or Manour Place, longing that tyme to Robert de Belesme.”—Leland’s Itinerary, Vol. IV., pp. 103, 104.