Image: Melbourne Castle

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Description: Melbourne Castle, Derbyshire. Coloured engraving, 1733, anonymous
Title: Melbourne Castle
Credit: 1733 copy of an earlier image ca 1580 ("Melbourne" Conservation Area Histories, District of South Derbyshire p. 2. Full plate from the Government Art Collection The text is given as: MELBORN CASTLE in the County of DERBY. / Formerly a Royal Mansion, now in Ruins; where JOHN Duke of BOURBON taken Prisoner by K: Henry V.th / in the Battle of AGINCOURT (An.o 1414.) was kept Nineteen Years in Custody of Nicholas Montgomery / the Younger; he was released by K: Henry VI.th. This Draught is made from a Sruvey now in the Dutchy Office of Lancaster, / taken in the Reign of Q: Elizabeth. Sumptibus. Soc: Ant: Lond: 1733
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