Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle in Colchester, Essex, England, is a case of a to a great extent total Norman palace. It is a Grade I recorded building. The chateau has had different utilizations since it stopped to be an illustrious manor. It has been an area jail, where in 1645 the so called Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins grilled and detained suspected witches. In 1648, amid the Second English Civil War, the Royalist pioneers Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle were executed just to the back of the manor. Neighborhood legend has it that grass won't develop on the spot on which they fell.

A little monolith currently denotes the point. In 1656 the Quaker James Parnell was martyred there. Care of the manor was allowed for life to Charles Lord Stanhope in 1607, however in 1629 Charles I estranged it and it returned to James Hay, Earl of Carlisle. Care at that point go in 1636 to Archibald Hay. In 1650 a Parliament Survey denounced the building and esteemed the stone at five pounds. In 1649 Hay sold his enthusiasm to Sir John Lenthall, who in 1656 sold it to Sir James Northfolk. In 1683 an ironmonger, John Wheely, was authorized to pull everything down - apparently to use as building material in the town. After "incredible decimations" in which a significant part of the upper structure was pulverized utilizing screws and black powder, he surrendered when the task wound up unfruitful.