BELVOIR CASTLE

In Nichol's *History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester*, vol. ii., part i., containing the Framland Hundred, p. 45 of the folio ed. 1795, occurs the following quotation, in reference to the rebuilding of Belvoir castle by Henry, second Earl of Rutland, in 1555:— "That part of the more ancient building, which was left by both unaltered, is included in the following concise description by an ingenious writer, who visited it in 1722:— 'Ædes in culmine montis sitæ, scilicet, αιπεια κολωνεν 'Εν πεδιω απανευθε περιδρομος ενθα και ενθα' aditu difficilis circa montem; cujus latera omnia horti…