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CASTLE RISING

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTLE RISING , a See also:village of See also:Norfolk, See also:England, 4 M. by road N.E. of See also:King's See also:Lynn. The See also:Norman castle for which it is famous stands on slightly elevated ground overlooking, to the See also:west, the See also:low marshy See also:coast of the See also:Wash. Its site is enclosed by artificial ramparts of See also:earth and a dyke which is crossed by an See also:ancient See also:bridge. The keep is square and massive, and fairly perfect, and it is not difficult to reconstruct the arrangement of the rooms. In some parts, especially the entrance, the Norman See also:carving is very See also:rich. The See also:foundations of a small See also:chapel with apsidal eastern termination have been discovered outside the castle. The village of Castle Rising is the decayed remnant of a See also:town of no little importance. Its See also:church of St Laurence is See also:late Norman, with much rich ornamentation; it shows traces of considerable alterations in the See also:Early See also:English See also:period, but is an admirable example of the earlier See also:style. It is a See also:matter of dispute whether Rising was or was not an early Saxon See also:settlement; in Domesday See also:Book the See also:manor is given as having belonged to See also:Archbishop See also:Stigand, from whom it had passed to See also:Odo of See also:Bayeux, whose estates were confiscated in ro88. Granted to See also:William de Albini, whose son built Rising Castle, it passed first to See also:Robert de Montalt, and then by See also:sale to See also:Isabel, See also:queen of England, in 1332, remaining in the See also:possession of the See also:crown until See also:Henry VIII. exchanged it for other lands with the See also:duke of Norfolk. In 1269 an See also:inquisition found that the See also:lord had the return of all writs. In 1275 Robert de Montalt died seised of the manor and See also:vill with the See also:assize of See also:bread and See also:ale.

An inquisition of 1379, although it makes no mention of the See also:

borough, states that the lord has the rents of assizes, and perquisites of the courts with view of See also:frank-See also:pledge. A See also:mayor is first mentioned in 1343, and a borough existed in the 15th See also:century. A survey of 1589–1590 declared that Castle Rising was an ancient borough by See also:prescription according to the See also:grant made to See also:Hugh de Albini by Henry III. In 1589–r 590 the See also:recorder was chosen by the lord of the manor. The mayor, the only member of the See also:corporation, whose See also:sole See also:duty was the holding of the assize of bread and ale, was chosen by the burgesses and presented at the See also:court leet for See also:confirmation. Castle Rising became a See also:parliamentary borough in 1558, but was disfranchised in 1832 and the corporation abolished in 1835, although a mayor was elected for See also:special purposes until 1883. Having no manufactures, the See also:trade of the town depended entirely on its fairs and markets; but these have been See also:long obsolete.

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