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The Bulletin
Fix this textBUSHRANGER BALLADS — PAGE 24
Fix this text“The Bulletin,” Vol. 74—No. 3842
Fix this textWednesday, September 30, 1953
Fix this textPrice 9d.
Fix this textRegistered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper
Fix this textSeppelts
Fix this textIF HISTORIED CARDIFF CASTLE COULD ONLY SPEAK!
Fix this textCARDIFF, the commercial capital of Wales, and one of the great seaports
Fix this textof the British Isles, had its early beginnings as a Roman stronghold on
Fix this textthe banks of the River Taff. Roman remains have been found within the
Fix this textwalls of the present castle, which stands on the line of the Roman coast road
Fix this textthrough South Wales.
Fix this textCardiff Castle was begun as a motte-and-bailey earthworks by Robert
Fix this textFitzhamon, the Anglo-Norman conqueror of Glamorganshire, about the year
Fix this text1090. His successor, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and son of Henry I, added
Fix this textmasonry and strongly fortified the castle by building the massive central
Fix this textkeep on top of the original earthwork and surrounded it with a moat which
Fix this texthas since been filled in. The entrance tower of the keep and the Black Tower
Fix this textwere built by the “Red Earl” of Clare and the rest of the buildings are of
Fix this textvarious dates from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Fix this textIn 1490 the castle came into the possession of Jasper Tudor and in 1551
Fix this textit was presented by his royal descendant, King Edward VI. to Sir William
Fix this textHerbert, ancestor of the present owner, the Marquis of Bute, whose other
Fix this textproperties include three houses and a castle in Scotland, town houses in
Fix this textLondon and Edinburgh and a castle in Spain, In 1830 the second Marquis
Fix this textof Bute risked his entire fortune on the construction of the extensive docks
Fix this textto which Cardiff owes its present size and its position as the largest coal-
Fix this textexporting port in the world.
Fix this textThe castle is still inhabited and parts of it are open to the public when
Fix this textthe family is not in residence. The State apartments are richly decorated and
Fix this textinclude the Chaucer Room in the fifteenth-century octagon tower where the
Fix this textstained-glass windows illustrate the Canterbury Tales.
Fix this textThe walls of Cardiff Castle still bear the scars of battle, for it was
Fix this textcaptured by Owen Glendower in 1404 and by Parliamentary forces in 1645,
Fix this textduring the Civil War—only a month after it had been visited by Charles I.
Fix this textAnother important event in the history of the Castle was the imprisonment
Fix this textthere of Robert. Duke of Normandy, by his brother, Henry I, for twenty-six
Fix this textyears before his death in 1135. During his long imprisonment the unfortunate
Fix this textDuke learned the Welsh language and composed several poems which still
Fix this textexist today: a plaintive elegy of the times in which he lived.
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Fix this textSEPPELTS ROYAL PURPLE PARA
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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