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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96462	The just devil of Woodstock. Or, A true narrative of the several apparitions, the frights, and punishments, inflicted upon the rumpish commissioners sent thither, to survey the mannors and houses belonging to His Majestie.	Widdows, Thomas, 1612-1655.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2091; Thomason E1055_10; ESTC R207997	14,057	19

have had the least disturbance or heard the smallest noise for which the cause was not as Ordinary as apparent except the Commissioners and their company who came in Order to the alienating and pulling down the house which is well nigh performd A short Survey of Woodstock not taken by any of the before mentioned Commissioners THis Noble seat called W●odstock is one of the ancient honours belonging to the Crown Severall Mannors owe suite and service to the place But the custom of the Countrey giving it but the title of a Mannor we shall erre with them to be the better understood The Mannor House hath been a large Fabrick and accounted amongst his Majesties standing houses because there was alwaies kept a standing furniture This great house was built by King Henry the first but amplyfied with the gate house and out sides of the outer-court by King Henry the seventh the stables by King James About a bow shoot from the gate Southwest remain foundation signs of that structure erected by King Henry the second for the security of Lady Rosamond daughter of Walter Lord Clifford which some Poets have compared to the Dedalian Labyrinth but the form and circuit both of the place ruins shew it to have been a house of one pile perhaps of strength according to the fashion of those times and probably was fitted with secret places of recess and avenews to hide or convey away such persons as wete not willing to be found if narrowly sought after About the midst of the place ariseth a spring called at present Rosamonds Well It is but shallow and shews to have been paved and walled about likely contrived for the use of them within the house when it should be of danger to go out A quarter of a mile distant from the King house is seated Woodstock Town new and old This new Woodstock did arise by some buildings which Henry the second gave leave to be erected as received by tradition at the suite of the Lady Rosamond for the use of out servants upon the wastes of the Mannor of Bladon where is the Mother Church this is a Hamlet belonging to it though encreased to a market Town by the advantage of the Court residing sometime near which of late years they have been sensible of the want of this Town was made a Corporation in the 11. year of Henry the sixth by Charter with power to send two Burgesses to Parliament or not as they will themselves Old Woodstock is scated on the Westside of the brook named Glyme which also runneth through the Park the Town consists not of above four or five houses but it is to be conceived that it hath been much larger but very anciently so for in some old Law Historians there is mention of the Assise at Woodstock for a Law made in a Micelgemote the name of Parliaments before the coming of the Norman in the days of King Etheldred And in like manner that thereabout was a Kings House if not in the same place where Hen. the first built the late standing pile before his for in such days those great Councels were commonly held in the Kings Pallaces Some of those Lands have belonged to the Orders of the Knights Templers there being Records which call them Terras quas Rex excambiavit cum Templariis But now this late large Mannor House is in a manner almost turned into heaps of Rubbish Some seven or eight rooms left for the accommodation of a Tenant that should rent the Kings medows of those who had no power to let them with several high uncovered Walls standing the prodigious Spectacles of malice unto Monarchy which ruines still bear semblance of their State and yet aspire in spight of envy or of weather to shew What Kings do build Subjects may sometime shake but utterly can never overthrow That part of the Park called the High-Park hath been lately subdivided by Sir Arthur Haselrig to make pastures for his breed of Colts and other parts plowed up Of the whole saith Roffus Warwicensis in Ms. Hen. 1. pag. 122. Fecit iste Rex Parcum de Woodstock cum Palatio infra praedictum Parcum qui Parcus erat primus Parcus Angliae continet in circuitu septem Miliaria constructus erat Anno 14. bujus Regis aut parum post Without the Park the Kings Demesn Woods were it cannot well be said now are The Timber being all sold off and underwoods so cropt and spoiled by that Beast the Lord Munson and other greedy Cattel that they are hardly recoverable Beyond which lieth Stone-field and other Mannors that hold of Woodstock with other Woods that have been aliened by former Kings but with reservation of Liberty for his Majesties Deer and other beasts of Forrest to harbour in at pleasure as in due place is to be shewed FINIS