Editing Woodstock Palace (section)

==Later history==
[[File:Inescutcheon Of HonourAndManor Of Woodstock.svg|thumb|[[Inescutcheon]] "of the Honour and Manor of Woodstock", granted by royal warrant in 1722 as an augmentation of honour to the coat of arms of [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]], and borne at his funeral. By a further royal licence in 1817 it was added as an augmentation to the arms of the Dukes of Marlborough. ''Cross of St George surmounted by the royal arms of France''<ref name="archive.org">The book of public arms : a complete encyclopædia of all royal, territorial, municipal, corporate, official, and impersonal arms by Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, 1915, p.862 [https://archive.org/details/bookofpublicarms00foxd/page/862/mode/2up]</ref>]]
In 1705, [[Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore|Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore]] sold Woodstock Park to [[the Crown]], which was owned at the time by virtue of his wife, [[Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore|Charlotte Lee]].<ref name=epsom>{{cite book|chapter=Parishes: Epsom |title=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 |editor-first=H. E. |editor-last=Malden |location=London |year=1911 |pages=271–278 |publisher=Victoria County History |via=[[British History Online]] |chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp271-278 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3 |access-date=26 September 2017 }}</ref> Charlotte Lee was the daughter of the [[Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield|1st Earl of Lichfield]] and [[Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield|Lady Charlotte FitzRoy]], the illegitimate daughter of [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Cokayne | first=George E. | authorlink=George Cokayne |editor-last=Gibbs |editor-first=Vicary |editor-link=Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP) | title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant | volume=I, Ab-Adam to Basing | publisher=St. Catherine Press | location=London | year=1910 | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066332571 |page=394}}</ref>

Later in 1705, Parliament granted the royal [[Lord of the manor|manor]] and honour (i.e. [[English feudal barony|feudal barony]]) of Woodstock to [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]] (1650–1722), in recognition of his victory over the French at the [[Battle of Blenheim]] on 13 August 1704. The manor was to be held in [[Feudal land tenure in England|feudal tenure]] from Queen Anne in [[free socage]] by service of [[grand serjeanty]] "of presenting at Windsor Castle, on the anniversary of the battle, a standard bearing the fleur-de-lys of France".<ref>A P Baggs, W J Blair, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn and S C Townley, 'Blenheim: Woodstock manor', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock, ed. Alan Crossley and C R Elrington (London, 1990), pp. 431-435 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol12/pp431-435</ref> An [[inescutcheon]] "of the Honour and Manor of Woodstock" was further granted by royal warrant in 1722 as an [[augmentation of honour]] to his coat of arms and was borne at his funeral. By a further Royal Licence, 26 May 1817, the inescutcheon was added as an augmentation of honour to the arms of the Dukes of Marlborough,<ref name="archive.org"/> and is still borne by them today. The arms comprise a Cross of St George surmounted by the royal arms of France.<ref>Blazon: ''On an escutcheon argent the Cross of St George surmounted by another escutcheon azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis two and one or'' (Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage,  Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.747)</ref>

[[Blenheim Palace]] was built in the manor of Woodstock for the Duke as his new seat. Some stone from the old Palace was used.<ref name=bbc/> The ruins of the old palace or manor house of Woodstock were removed in 1723.<ref>Edward Marshall, ''The Early History of Woodstock Manor and Its Environs'' (Oxford, 1873), p. 263.</ref>