Montacute

Holy Rood see _Old English History_, p. 271, and Mr. Freeman's article on "Montacute" in _The Saturday Review_, September 9, 1871.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

And there was the manor, tucked away in this sequestered spot, but noted as a particularly fine Elizabethan gabled mansion – though on a modest scale compared with a great Somerset house like Montacute.

Country diary: Wigborough, Somerset 2011

In Montacute, near Yeovil, where they grow their own vegetables and live longer than anybody in the country, they will know the value of James Hildreth.

Somerset scent victory over Hampshire after James Hildreth century David Hopps at Taunton 2010

Set in 1341–1350, with flashbacks to 1326, Hugh and Bess tells the story of Hugh le Despenser (son of the notorious Hugh le Despenser who was the favourite of Edward II and was horribly executed for treason in 1326) and his wife Elizabeth (Bess) de Montacute.

Hugh and Bess, by Susan Higginbotham. Book review Carla 2009

Set in 1341–1350, with flashbacks to 1326, Hugh and Bess tells the story of Hugh le Despenser (son of the notorious Hugh le Despenser who was the favourite of Edward II and was horribly executed for treason in 1326) and his wife Elizabeth (Bess) de Montacute.

Archive 2009-08-01 Carla 2009

‘Then be a Montacute Jones-ite, or a Bocassen-ite, if, as possible, you prefer a young woman to an old one.’

The Duke's Children 2004

Lightfoot has in part restored it by drawing attention to the collation of this Montacute MS., which occurs between the lines or in the margin of the Dublin transcript of the Caius MS. Archbishop Ussher's examination of the Latin version, thus discovered, induced in his mind a suspicion that Bishop Grosseteste was himself the translator.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

If the direct road is taken from Montacute to Yeovil we pass through

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Montacute, still farther south and on the road from South

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

The vault of the tower is a lierne vault, and from the occurrence of the arms of Sir Guy de Brien, once quartered with those of Montacute

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire