The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes : beautified with maps, prospects and portraictures / by William Dugdale.
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The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes : beautified with maps, prospects and portraictures / by William Dugdale.
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Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.
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London :: Printed by Thomas Warren,
1656.
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Cheswike.
THis is onely a kind of old Fortification, where∣of the grounds wherein 'tis situate assume the name; and by the forme of it, and depth of the trenches (though the circuit thereof be not large) seems to have been a Roman work, the later syl∣lable, Wyke, importing no less, which signifieth in our old English a Castle or fortification: But all that I have seen of it, from any good authority, is that the Family of Broughton, juxta Banbury in Oxfordshire, were antiently owners of it: for in 29 E. 1 Iohn de Broghton had a Charterq of Free∣warren
granted to him in all his demesn lands here, as well as those at Broughton; and that in 42 E. 3. Sir Thomas Broughton Kt. sold r it unto Iohn Waryng and Ric. Gower, the principall part where∣of Gower had; from whose heir it was purchased in our time by one Will. Bache.