[306] The woodcut represents the old baronial kitchen with its appendages, as described page 154.
[307] See note, page 138.
[308] As an author, he is known by a work relating to that curious monument of former ages, Stonehenge, which he pronounced to be a Roman temple, dedicated to Cœlus; an opinion, however, which antiquaries have decried as erroneous and absurd.—Biog.
[309] See account of the King’s visit to Raglan, p. 163.
[310] He died in 1348.
[311] The lordship of Grosmont was absorbed in the acquisitions of the house of Lancaster, and a court-baron is held for the district, called “the Hundred of the Three Castles”—Grosmont, Skenfreth, and White Castle, or Castle Gwyn.
[312] 1326.—See Hist. of Monmouth.
[313] 1387.—Ibid.
[314] Life of Henry V.
[315] In the “Shakspeare,” edited by the late poet Campbell, it is thought that the parts of Gloucester and Edgar are taken from the story of the Paphlagonian King in Sir Philip Sydney’s “Arcadia.” There was also a play, entitled “The True Chronicle Historie of King Leare and his 3 Daughters,” entered at Stationers’ Hall in 1594, which kept possession of the stage several years, and must have been familiar to Shakspeare himself.