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Of the forts castellain; Lord of pillars and power,
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Long after the times of Attila and Dagobert, when luxury found its way into our courts and the great men of the earth had two or three armchairs in their donjons, it was a noble distinction to sit upon one of these thrones; and a castellain would place among his titles how he had gone half a league from home to pay his court to
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He moreover enjoyed the dignity of castellain and chief bannerer or banneret of London.
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M123 Duties of the castellain of the City in time of war.
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There is one other point worthy of remark, touching the office of chief banneret, and that is that on the occasion of any siege undertaken by the London forces, the castellain was to receive as his fee the niggardly sum of one hundred shillings for his trouble, and no more.
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It is also probable, as Mr. Riley has pointed out, that the unopposed admission of the barons into the city, on the 24th May, 1215, may have been facilitated by Fitz-Walter’s connexion, as castellain, with the Priory of Holy Trinity, situate in the vicinity.
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It then became the duty of the castellain to proceed to the great gate of St. Paul’s attended by nineteen other knights, mounted and caparisoned, and having his banner, emblazoned with his arms, displayed before him.
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