User talk:Dave Eggersly

November 2012
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I know lots about anal eroticism so want to help. Dave Eggersly (talk) 03:13, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Materialscientist (talk) 12:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd like to see an explanation for edits like this and this broke multiple references. --jpgordon:==( o ) 20:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * You consider those to be significant edits? I also see that you have yet to respond to Jpgordon's question just above the unblock request (✉→BWilkins←✎) 12:18, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * i dont know how I did that. I must have pressed the wrong button or done some thing wrong but I didnt do it on purpose. thats why i said i'll be more careful. I tried added good content and will hope to do more. I am not an expert editor (yet!) but I am not trying to vandalize. Dave Eggersly (talk) 12:24, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

You didn't follow the instructions and save the page without making any changes, as per the highlighted text in Beeblebrox's template above? You realise that makes it rather more difficult for us to check your edits, right? Having compared the section below with the corresponding section at Colchester Castle, I can see that you have indeed made some changes in the process of copying it across - primarily, these appear to be copyright violations (close paraphrases) of the source you've used, which, incidentally, you have also cited incorrectly (you need to list the full URL in a citation template). Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  14:52, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Later history
In 1215, English Barons, dissatisfied with King John's severe taxation regime, rebelled and aided by King Philippe II of France, captured the castle. It was later recaptured by King John in the the altercations with the nobles that eventually led to the Magna Carta. Since then, it remained Crown property until the 17th century.

During the 13th century the castle was increasingly used as a jail, and in 1350 after the castle ceased to serve any milatary function, the dungeons were converted into prison cells.

The castle has had various uses since it ceased to be a royal castle. It has been a county prison, where in 1645 the self-styled Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins interrogated and imprisoned suspected witches.

In 1648, during the Second English Civil War, the Royalist leaders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle captured the town and the castle, designating it as a Royalist stronghold. It was seized by the Parliamentarians after a 12 week siege and Lucas and Lisle were executed behind the castle. Local legend has it that grass will not grow on the spot on which they fell. A small obelisk now marks the point. In 1656 the Quaker James Parnell was martyred there.

In 1650 a Parliament Survey condemned the building and valued the stone at five pounds, the roof over the Great Hall having collapsed in 1837. In 1683 an ironmonger, John Wheely, was licensed to pull it all down - presumably to use as building material in the town. After "great devastations" in which much of the upper structure was demolished using screws and gunpowder, and the foundations of the Roman Temple were discovered, he gave up when the operation became unprofitable.

In 1727 the castle was bought by Mary Webster for her daughter Sarah, who was married to Charles Gray, the Member of Parliament for Colchester. To begin with, Gray leased out the keep to a local grain merchant and the east side was leased out to the county as a gaol. In the late 1740s Gray began a programme of restoration to the South facade and tower. He created a private park around the ruin and his summer house (perched on the old Norman castle earthworks, in the shape of a Roman temple) can still be seen. Charles Gray also added a red tiled roof, a library and a study.

Twentieth and twenty-first centuries
In 1860, the castle was opened to the public. In 1922, the castle and the surrounding park were given to the town and they have remained as the Upper and Lower Castle Parks ever since. A new roof was constructed for the keep during the 1930's. The castle is now a Grade I listed building and a public museum.