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The castle was originally built by John
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and after his death in 1761 became the subject of a legal battle for the next eight years until the courts ruled
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who helped the servants with their work, but that he left in disgust because of a lazy kitchen maid.
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through marriage who later gave the castle to the state in 1926. It is now in the care of
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