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The bulletin

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NX 252
Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 75 No. 3893 (22 Sep 1954)
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The Bulletin  

SUNSET ON AN EMPIRE? -page 28  

“The Bulletin,” Vol. 75~N0. 3893  

Wednesday, September 22, 1954  

Price 9d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for transmission by Post as Newspaper  

Seppelts  

BATTLE ANGER AND STORM FURY  

HAVE FAILED TO SUBDUE  

CORFE CASTLE  

THE extensive ruins of Corfe Castle occupy  

the summit of an isolated hill near  

Swanage in Dorset, and for over three hundred  

years its massive walls have withstood time  

and the elements. Before its destruction by  

Parliamentary forces in 1646 this great castle  

was one of the strongest and most important  

fortifications in Britain. Although the existing  

castle dates mainly from the Norman period it  

stands upon the site of Saxon stronghold of  

Kjng Edgar (950 a.d.). At that time it was  

the centre of royal hunting ground and it  

was there that King Edward was murdered by  

his stepmother, Elfrida, in 979.  

Corfe Castle was favourite residence of  

King John and owing to its almost impregnable  

strength he deposited there for safe keeping  

the royal regalia. From earliest times the castle  

served as State prison and traces of some of  

the dungeons can still be seen; they recall the  

cruelty of King who, at the beginning of the  

‘l3th century, confined twenty-two French  

prisoners there and allowed them to starve to  

death. There, also, he imprisoned his niece,  

Eleanor, and two daughters of the Scottish  

king, sent to him as hostages.  

In 1326 Edward II was imprisoned there by  

Queen Isabella and her paramour,. Roger  

Mortimer, before they murdered him at  

Berkeley Castle. Although associated with  

suffering, cruelty and violence, Corfe Castle  

is also associated with the outstanding forti-  

tude of woman —Lady Bankes, who organised  

the defence of the fortress against the Parlia-  

mentarians in 1643. The defenders held out  

during the siege which lasted six weeks against  

force of six hundred. Three years later the  

castle was again besieged but this time treachery  

achieved what force had previously failed to  

accomplish. An officer of the garrison admitted  

the enemy in disguise under the pretence of  

being reinforcement. The defenders were  

forced to surrender and the castle was plundered.  

Following its capture, Parliament ordered the  

destruction of Corfe Castle; the towers were  

undermined and large quantities of gunpowder  

were used for months in an effort to demolish  

the stronghold. The immense walls, twenty-  

seven feet thick in some places, withstood their  

efforts and they still stand today in splendid  

isolation, monument to the skill of the castle  

builders, and reminder of the fury of the  

Civil War.  

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