[…] St. George on the wall, in the entry of the hall, with two leaden windows; to wainscote the chamber in which Guy de Lezinan our brother lay; and to rebuild the two rotten bretaches in the same castle and cover them with lead.
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Bretache
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A primitive Bretesque or Bretache was generally something salient or projecting. It has been described in some glossaries as a vantage point from which proclamations might be addressed to the citizens; also as a wooden defence […] But whatever be the form or purpose a bretache, the generic idea is wood. This is evident when it occurs in the mandates issued by Henry III. to his architects. At Southampton for instance two bretaches are to be rebuilt […]
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A bretache is mentioned in a Survey of 1314, but the present corbels overhanging the gateway, and upon which the timber work rested, appear to be of the age of Richard II., and probably date from 1386.
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In 1239, Paulin Peyvere and Thomas de Newere, the Keepers of the temporalities of the Bishoprick of Winchester (custodes episcopatus Wintonia) are ordered to make in the Castle a drawbridge, with a bretache (cum unâ bretasch) ...
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