... game.Beside the three girls who were in the care of the Countess, Earl Hubert had also three boy-wards Richardde Clare, heir of the earldom of Gloucester; Roger de Mowbray, heir of the barony of Mowbray, ... Avranches), the son of a knight. With these six, the Earl& apos;s twosons, his daughter, and his daughter- in-law, there was no lack of young people in the Castle, of whom SirJohn de Burgh, the eldest, ... the ante-chamber. These four rooms together, with the narrow spiral staircase which led to them, occupied the whole floor of one of the square towers of the Castle. The walls of the bower were painted green,...