Woodstock or, the Cavalier [Alan Rodgers Book]

The noble seat, called Woodstock, is one of the ancient honors belonging to the crown. Several mannors owe suite and service to the place; but the custom of the countrey giving it but the title of a mannor, we shall erre with them to be the better understood. The mannor-house hath been a large fabric, and accounted amongst his majestie's standing houses, because there was alwaies kept a standing furniture. This great house was built by King Henry the First, but ampleyfied with the gate-house and outsides of the outer-court, by King Henry the Seventh, the stables by King James..