Dover Castle
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Castle of Dover · Dover · the Castle of Dover
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
A fortress described as an eminent place of strength and defence, whose constableship the Duke purchased from Lord Zouch.
The said Duke did likewise, in and about the month of December, in the twenty-second year of the said late King James, of famous memory, give and pay unto the Right Honourable Edward late Lord Zouch, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and of the members thereof, and Constable of the Castle of Dover, for the said offices, and for the surrender of the said offices of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports an …
That in December, in the two and twentieth year of his late Majesty’s reign, he obtained the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Constable of the Castle of Dover (being one entire office) upon the surrender of the Lord Zouch, then Lord Warden.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Royal castle whose constable was, by an early statute, barred from holding certain 'foreign' pleas within the castle gate.
The power of trying and punishing misdemeanours was not taken away by the Great Charter, and was confirmed by implication in 1300 by a statute which directed that the constable of Dover Castle should not hold, within the castle gate, “foreign” pleas of the county which did not affect “the guard of the castle.
It was discovered in the seventeenth century, among the archives of Dover Castle, by the Warden, Sir Edward Dering, and by him presented to Sir Robert Cotton.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Castle cited as an example of a royal fortress placed under a bailiff.
and sometimes the persons to whom the king’s castles are committed are termed bailiffs, as the bailiff of Dover Castle, &c.
In some instances the term bailiff, in England, is applied to the chief magistrates of towns, or to the commanders of particular castles, as that of Dover.