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ept from nine ihillings to forty per head, according to their fize.
¡Reach
: S k ip t o n , a good town, feated in a fertile expanded vale. It con-
pto principally o f one broad ftreet, the church and caftle terminating
the upper end. The caftle is faid to have been originally built by
I f f de Romely, Lord of the honor of Skipton. By failure of male
liie, it fell to William Fitz-Duncan, Earl of Murray, who married the
Slaughter of Romely. William le Gros, Earl of Albemarle, by marriage
with her daughter, received as portion her grandfather’s eftates. . It
fell afterwards by females to other families, fuch as William de Man-
uml, Earl of EJjex, to William de F'ortibus, and Baldwin de Betun. In.
the time of Richard I. Avelin, daughter to a fecond William de Forti-
i a minor, fucceeded. She became ward of King Henry III. who,
Lifter coming of age, in 1269,-bellowed her and her.fortunes on his
L Edmund, Earl of Lancafier* ; ^ but on the forfeiture'of his fon for
Itreafen againft Edward II. the honor and caftle were granted, in 1309,
m Robert de Glifford, a Herefordjhire Baron, in whofe line it continued
till the laft century. I know of no remarkable event that befel this
¡caftle, excepting that it was difmantled by ordinance of parlement,
¡in 1648, becaufe it had received a loyal garriibn during the civil
'wits.-
It was reftored, and repaired,.in 1657-1658, by the famous Anne
Clifford, who made it, with five other caftles, her alternate refidence.
It is feated on the edge of a deep dingle, prettily wooded, and watered
by a canal, that ferves to convey limeftone to the main trunk of the
navigation, which paffes near the town. At prefent the caftle feems
• Dugdak, Baron. I. 65.
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