Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1898 — Ancient English Castle. [ARTICLE]

Ancient English Castle.

One of the finest and best preserved of the ancient northern castles of England is the seat of the Duke of Cleveland. King Canute presented It with other offerings at the shrine of St. Cuthbert, but it passed out of the hands of the monks in 1131. Portions of the older building are so skillfully Incorporated with the new that It seems a perfect specimen of a castle of the fourteenth century. The castle is of great size and strength, and the walls surrounding ft occupy about two acres of ground. The pleasure grounds and park are of a magnificence commensurate with that of the palaee they surround.