The battle was going against them when, taking a bow from one of his soldiers, he shot the arrow himself, killing the leader of the Danes.
He had been rewarded by being made a Knight and became Sir Justin Bow.
He had moved inland and built a fortified Manor house, most appropriately calling it “Arrow”.
The Earldom had been created in the reign of Charles II with the title of Arrow.
All through history the Bows had served in the Army and Navy and also as advisers to the Monarch.
It was such a romantic story that Shenda would imagine The Castle filled first with Knights in armour, their ladies wearing long pointed medieval headdresses.
Then there were the doublets and ruffs of Tudor times and the long wigs that emulated the one worn by Charles II after the Restoration.
In her mind She
