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business to the next level today. Welcome to a new series of This Is History, a dynasty to die for.

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Night has fallen, when the group of young men emerge from their hiding places and jogs silently along the riverbank.

They move quickly but carefully, finding their way by the light of the stars.

It's mid-October, and beneath their feet the ground squelches, damp and slippery from rain showers

and autumn leaves. On a night like this, in a place like this, just outside the walls of

the city of Nottingham, it would be easy to get lost, or worse, caught by the guards.

But at the head of the group darts a bold 26-year-old called William Montague.

Using hisses and low whistles, he keeps the group together, bringing them around the curve of a steep rivercliff.

Above that rivercliff, glowering 130 feet high on top of the great rocky outcrop,

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