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The same punster who described fortification as two twenty fications, would call this a Grose blunder. When Robert D'Oiley, in the reign of Henry V. built the abbey at Osney, for monks and regulars, and gave them the revenues, &c. of the church of St.
We have to acknowledge the loan of the original of the engraving, from a lineal descendant of D'OILEY , the founder or repairer of the Castle at Oxford a name not altogether unknown to our readers. The sum of 144l. 5s. was expended in the rebuilding.
Leland, Dugdale, and Camden, on the other hand, affirm that the castle at Oxford was built by Robert D'Oiley, who came into England with William the Conqueror; and the Chronicles of Osney Abbey, preserved in the Cottonian library, even ascertain the precise date of this great baron's undertaking, viz.
Orford Castle, which some guide-books and directories will insist on confusing with Oxford Castle and stating that it was built by Robert D'Oiley in 1072, was erected by Henry II to defend the country against the incursions of the Flemings and to safeguard Orford Haven.
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