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The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles

Note 227 — Chapter VI · DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTTE-CASTLES

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Henry II. built a castle and very fine borough (burgum pergrande) at Beauvoir in Maine. Robert of Torigny, R.S., p. 243. Minute regulations concerning the founding of the borough of Overton are given in Close Rolls, Edward I. (1288-1296), p. 285.

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