East View of Hopton Castle in Salop

Source: Samuel & Nathaniel Buck, Views of Ruins of Castles & Abbeys in England, Part 2, 1726-1739 (nd), Arts, Languages and Literature, Birmingham Central Library.

Text: Taken from the original source

To John Smythe Esq^r:

This Prospect is gratefully Inscribed by;

Y^r: most Oblig’d Humble Serv^ts. Sam^l. & Nath^l. Buck.

THIS CASTLE is remarkable for the statute of Acton Burnel made here in ye XI^th. of Ed. I^st. confirming & Explaining a former Act called the Stature Merchant. The Lords sat in this Castle; but the Commons are said to have sat in a Barn belonging to ye Monastery of Shrewsbury. It had its name from the Family of Burnel who possessed it from K.W. 1^st till K. Hen. V^ths. Time: but in Hen. VI^ths. Reign the Family of Lovel were Lords of Burnel. It was seized by K.H. VII^th & given to Jasper Earl of Bedford for Life. K. Hen. VIII. Gave it to Thomas Howard Earl of Surry afterwards created Duke of Norfolk. S^r. Richard Smythe Bar^t. is the Present Owner thereof.

S & N Buck Delin. et. Sculp^t. 1731.