Some Account of the Keep of Colchester Castle
Archaeological Journal ISSN: 0066-5983 (Print) 2373-2288 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raij20 Some Account Of The Keep Of Colchester Castle G. T. Clark To cite this article: G. T. Clark (1882) Some Account Of The Keep Of Colchester Castle, Archaeological Journal, 39:1, 239-256, DOI: 10.1080/00665983.1882.10852036 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00665983.1882.10852036 Published online: 14 Jul 2014. Submit your article to this journal View related articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=raij20 Download by: [University of California, San Diego] Date: 29 June 2016, At: 12:49 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE KEEP OF COLCHESTEE CASTLE. By G. T. CLARK. When Hubert of Rie, standing at early dawn between the church and his castle, " Entre li moister e sa mote,'' welcomed, harboured, and under the escort of his three sons, sent forward his hard bested lord by the road still known as " Le Voye le Due," he probably little thought that the incident would become matter of history, and still less could he have anticipated the splendid reward, for this and other faithful services, his sons were to receive, twenty years later, from that same soveriegn in a foreign and then unconquered land. Whether Hubert himself took part in the conquest is unknown: he certainly did not desert his mote and mostier in the Cotentin for any English possessions, but of his sons, Ralph and Adam received lands as under tenants in the counties of Nottingham, Derby, and Kent; and Eudo, called by Dugdale the fourth son, but the principal representative of the family in England, appears in the Survey as tenant in chief of 64 manors in the counties of Beds, Cambridge, Essex, Hants, Herts, Huntingdon, Lincoln, Norfolk, Northampton, and Suffolk.
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