Cawood Castle Banquet Hall & Gatehouse
Photo submitted by Lois Caywood Guffy - taken by Keith Haggerty
Location: Cawood; Cawood Castle, grounds of
Type: Post-Mortem Manifestation
Date / time if known: Easter Tuesday, 1690
Further comments: William Barwick murdered his wife and hid her body in a nearby pond. The following day, a witness saw the ghost of Mrs Barwick pointing to the area of the pond that concealed her corpse - he went to the authorities, and William was arrested soon after.
Paranormal Database
The link to the website with this story
Based upon the Cawood sword found in the River Ouse, near Cawood Castle. The original (Records XII.11) is in a private collection. A very similar original found in Norway is in the Oslo Museum.
Link to Raven Armoury, the Swordsmiths who reproduce this Sword
The original coat of arms of my Cawood family is pictured (a sketch) below and described as follows:
Cawood - Per Chevron embattled, sable and argent, three harts' heads caboshed, counterchanged.
On May 3-4 of 1557, a Grant of Arms was made by Gilbert Dethick, Garter King of Arms, to John Cawood (Royal Printer & Crown Publisher) to make some differences in the Cawood Coat of Arms ("to show where they were put on a clear footing")
The Arms granted were: "Per chevron embattled sable and argent, three stags' heads caboshed counterchanged, all within a bordure party per fess charged with ten trefoils, all counterchanged of the field."
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Note: I am currently looking to add more of the Cawood Crests. According to the book "Who is this fellow Cawood", the below coat of arms is not the same as the ones shown in the book. "All arms granted consist of what is shown on the shield. The shield itself may be of any shape or form. It is simply what is shown on it that counts." - Quote from "Who is this fellow Cawood" Pg 48. It very well may be that the below coat of arms is held by a different branch of the Cawood family.
Crest: On a wreath of the colours a stags head caboshed, proper, charged with a fleur-de-lis sable.
Motto: Suaviter (Suaviter means gracious, pleasant in manner, easiness in speech and conduct)
**The differences that I see are this (bear with me, I'm not real familiar with the descriptive details for coats of arms): On the Coat of Arms of John Cawood, Royal Printer, there is a lion (or possibly a griffin?) instead of a stags' head for the Crest, but there is still the Knight's armour for the Helm. On the arms itself there are no trees and the 3 stags' heads are in profile, not facing forward. The 'leafing' or 'Mantling' is different, more detailed, and there is no 'Suavitar' motto underneath. Instead is the name Cawood.
Read about an excursion down the River to Cawood Bridge HERE
* "History of Sherburn and Cawood" by William Wheater
* "Cawood - The History of a Yorkshire Village" by Michael Bell
* "The Day War Broke Out" by John Booth
* "Who is this Fellow Cawood" by Richard Lawrence Caywood (No longer Available)
* "Church, Crown and Commonwealth at Cawood Castle" by John Booth Available -click here
Ross Family at Cawood, Yorkshire
Cawood Heritage page
Caywood message board at Ancestry.com
The Ferry Inn, Cawood, Yorkshire
Cawood Holiday Park - Cawood, Selby, Yorkshire
Cawood/Caywood family history - Detailed Cawood/Caywood Lineage
Cawood Village River Defense - Cawood Village Craft Festival
Picture of Gatehouse of Bishopthorpe Palace
Poem with mention of Cawood Castle
Scot Stouts Caywood History Page
Web site and pictures by Edward Croot
The Gatehouse was built in 1763-5 from stone brought from Cawood Castle.
"And at proud Cawood-Castle seems to point the Battery of its Beams.
As if it quarrell'd in the Seat Th' Ambition of its Prelate great."
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