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Updated: May 9, 2025
Barneveld's Execution The Advocate's Conduct on the Scaffold The Sentence printed and sent to the Provinces The Proceedings irregular and inequitable. In the beautiful village capital of the "Count's Park," commonly called the Hague, the most striking and picturesque spot then as now was that where the transformed remains of the old moated castle of those feudal sovereigns were still to be seen.
The moated house still exists as Wyke Farm. A short distance away is a tithe-barn of noble proportions. The west front is remarkable for its canopied niches. Within is a stone screen and beautifully panelled roof. Yetminster churchyard is worth the climb thither for the sake of the lovely view without the added attraction of the beautiful Perpendicular church, restored about thirty years ago.
And it is more than a common ditch; it is deep; it is four-sided, and it fences in a distinct plot of ground. Our thoughts have come down so low from the lofty donjon with the vision of which we set out that we begin to think of the smaller kind of moated houses in our own land. The rectory at Slymbridge in Gloucestershire had, some years back at least, a moat round it.
And there are oaks and hornbeams in the park about Claverings that have echoed to the howling of wolves and the clank of men in armour. All the old farms here are moated because of the wolves. Claverings itself is Tudor, and rather fine too. And the cottages still wear thatch...." He reflected. "Now if you went south of London instead of northward it's all different.
"The matter is now in better hands," said I. "Will you be staunch and firm in detailing all you know of the scheme?" "Yes, though I should not receive a farthing." "And you will be willing to go to the Moated Grange, and, if necessary, swear to those things?"
Like Chenonceaux, it is a watery place, though it is more meagrely moated than the little chateau on the Cher. It consists of a large square corps de logis, with a round tower at each angle, rising out of a somewhat too slumberous pond. The water the water of the Indre sur- rounds it, but it is only on one side that it bathes its feet in the moat.
'He gives me up, as absolutely lost, if I go to my uncle Antony's; the close confinement; the moated house; the chapel; the implacableness of my brother and sister; and their power over the rest of the family, he sets forth in strong lights; and plainly says, that he must have a struggle to prevent my being carried thither.
They had wanted her to stay at home this voyage, but Agnes had lifted such appealing eyes, and clung in so much alarm to Harry at the bare idea of his leaving her, that they had given it up at once. So Rose, with no companion except Grace, found it very dull, and sighed the slow hours away, like a modern Mariana in the Moated Grange.
It's a peach proposition right from the ring of the gong. I'll try further." The time was nearly midnight as the Kid walked down the West-Side avenue. Few stores were open, and such as were practically hooted at the idea of a peach. But in her moated flat the bride confidently awaited her Persian fruit.
Just recall the lawless state of things on the Scottish Border in the olden time, the cattle-lifting, the house-burning, the midnight murders, the powerful marauders, who, safe in numerous retainers and moated keep, bade defiance to law; recall this state of things, and imagine the quarrels and raids literary, the weapons satire and wit, and you have a good idea of the darker aspect of the time.
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