Note 150 — THE PROLOGUE. (continued 3)
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“Le pis de son mal est, que Mademoiselle de Boulen a faict promettre à son Amy qu’il ne l’escoutera jamais parler; car elle pense bien qu’il ne le pourroit garder d’en avoir pitié.”
Lettre de l’Eveque de Bayonne ap. Le Grand, Tom. iii. p. 375.
The manor of The Moor was situate in the parish of Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire; the site is still called Moor Park. It was purchased and the house built by George Neville, Archbishop of York. Edward the fourth had promised to make that prelate a visit there, and while he was making suitable preparations to receive his royal master he was sent for to Windsor, and arrested for high treason. The king seized at the Moor all his rich stuff and plate to the value of 20,000l. keeping the archbishop prisoner at Calais and Hammes. Stowe, Ao. 1472. There was a survey of the house in 1568, by which it appears the mansion was of brick, the chief buildings forming a square court, which was entered by a gate-house with towers: the whole was moated. It was then in a dilapidated state.