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windows to enter the room; the plain arches in the wall dividing it from the other room, altogether give it an air of antiquity, in excellent accord with the rest of this venerable pile.

There are circular stairs in two other angles of the building from the first to the second floor, and up to small rooms in the turrets; the arched gallery in the wall of the upper story, forms a communication with all three stairs. The larger turret, seen in the opposite cut, is called the OBSERVATORY, from having been employed by Flamstead, the Astronomer Royal, for that purpose, before the erection of the present Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park. It is singular that, throughout the whole building, there is no trace of a fire-place of any kind, or of a well.

There is a stone building on the eastern side of the White Tower, which was added probably by Edward the Third, it is now occupied by the ORDNANCE OFFICE, and a corresponding, but more modern erection on the other side, is used as a Guard-Room.

of England with embellishments, the work of the celebrated Grinling Gibbons; above is a clock turret.

The ground floor is called the TRAIN OF ARTILLERY, from its formerly containing the field artillery, but at present it is used as a store-room for small arms, packed in cases, ready to be sent off on instant notice. There are still a few handsome pieces of ordnance, and curious mortars, &c., preserved in the apartment.

The magnificent room above, is termed the THE SMALL ARMOURY, and contains one hundred and fifty thousand stand of arms, fit for immediate service, ranged in stacks with great regularity; and a curious cornice, composed of old cuirasses, pistols, &c., runs round the room; similar arms compose all kinds of fantastic devices between the windows, and in compartments on the ceiling, &c. Here also are preserved eight Maltese flags and a curious cannon, taken from Malta by the French, and retaken by the English; the Earl of Mar's elegant shield and carbine; the sword carried before the Pretender when proclaimed King in Scotland; the highlander's axe, with which Colonel Gardiner was killed at Prestonpans; and numerous curiosities of a similar description.

In the room above, or on the third story, called the TENT ROOM, are deposited military accoutrements of all kinds.

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THE HORSE ARMOURY

Is modern, and is built against the southern side of the White Tower, consisting of a room one hundred and fifty feet long, and thirty-three feet wide, in which are twentytwo figures on horseback, each clothed in armour of successive periods, from the time of Henry the Sixth, to that of James the Second. There are other figures in suits of armour of different times, from Edward the First. The dates are inscribed on banners, or in other modes, above each, so that the artist and antiquarian has genuine models from which he may study. The public are indebted to Dr. Meyrick for this service, who was requested by government to arrange the collection afresh in 1825, in consequence of his having called attention to the strange medley it then presented, abandoned as it was to the management of the warders who conduct the visiters, and whose traditions on subjects of this sort are often more amusing than authentic. The figures are now placed in chronological order, as follows:

Edward the First....... ...1272 Lea, Master of the Armoury 1570 Henry the Sixth .1450 Devereux, Earl of Essex ..1581 1465 James the First

BOWYER'S TOWER, IN WHICH THE DUKE OF CLARENCE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DROWNED IN A BUTT OF MALMSEY, p. 82.

CHAPEL OF ST. PETER AD VINCULA Stands at the N. W. corner of the inner ward, and of the grand parade; it was erected in Edward the First's reign; But there was an older chapel on the spot long before: the present one consists of a nave and a side aisle, separated from the former by four flat arches; under this, and at the end, there is a gallery: the whole building is very plain, but derives great interest from the celebrated persons buried there. These are Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth Earl of Kildare, in 1534; Fisher Bishop of Rochester, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Lord and Lady Rochford, Margaret Countess of Salisbury, Cromwell Earl of Essex, Seymour Lord Sudley, and his brother, the Protector Somerset, and their rival, Dudley Duke of Northumberland; T. Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and his son, the Earl of Arundel; the Earl of Essex, the Duke of Monmouth, and the three rebel Lords executed in 1746 and 1747; and, besides several others of less note, Talbot Edwards, the gallant defender of the Regalia.

Behind the chapel there was, in former times, a small cell or hermitage, which is frequently mentioned in the records of the time of Henry the Third. It was inhabited by a hermit, who received a penny daily from the King's charity.

THE GRAND STORE HOUSE Occupies the north side of the parade and inner ward, it is a handsome brick building, perfectly regular, three hundred and forty-five feet long and sixty wide, of the time of James the Second and William the Third. In the centre pediment, there is a very rich carving of the arms

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left end, is plate-armour of very peculiar workmanship, the That of Henry the Sixth, the first on horseback at the sleeves and skirt are mail, the coverings to the feet are termed sollerets, the pole-axe in the hand is of that date, but of German workmanship, and was such as was borne by generals.

different construction from such as were worn in the field; Edward the Fourth is next, in a tilting suit, which is of

the lance is modern.

The armour of Henry the Seventh is probably of German workmanship, and is complete; it is of fluted steel, and consists of a burgonet helmet, with an open mentoniere or chinpiece and visor; the breast-plate is spherical, for the purpose of causing a thrust with a spear to glance off it; the accoutrements of the horse also give a good idea of the manner in which knights went to battle, adopting every possible preincreasing our admiration for their courage. The strength of caution for their own and their steed's safety, and by no means the animal who was to bear such a weight through a fight, shows how much care was even then taken of breeding horses for this purpose.

His son, Henry the Eighth, has a tilting suit, richly inlaid with gold.

This collection is too small to illustrate the gradual decline in the use of armour as fire-arms were more and more employed, against which it was of little avail, but something of this may be traced even here; and in the time of George the

First, when it was finally abandoned, a cuirass was all that was used.

In glass cases are to be seen two cross-bows with their windlasses, of the time of Henry the Eighth.

There is a suit of armour of the same date, 1509, in the middle of the south wall rough from the hammer, considered one of the most complete specimens. And the suit on the equestrian figure of the same King in the recess, was presented to him by the Emperor Maximilian on his marriage with Katherine of Arragon; it is the most splendid and highly finished in the collection, it is covered with engravings of the legends of Saints. It has been described by Dr. Meyrick in the 22nd vol. of the Archæologia.

The principal part of the remaining specimens are of the times of Charles the First and Second.

There is in this apartment a piece of ordnance ascribed to the time of Henry the Sixth, of very rude construction; and next to it, one of that of Henry the Seventh, which shows the great improvement in this manufacture in the course of fifty years.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ARMOURY

Is the name of another collection of military weapons, &c., contained in a building opposite the south-west corner of the White Tower. It was formerly denominated the SPANISH ARMOURY, from many of the pieces of armour, &c. in it being alleged to have been part of the spoil of the Invincible Armada," in 1588; but the antiquarian knowledge of Dr. Meyrick, has rendered common sense and truth the same service in this department as in the Horse Armoury, and has furnished the true history of these

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The far greater number of ancient weapons of this collection, are believed to be English, of the date of Elizabeth, and it is thought that there is not one which is really of Spanish origin, or has any connexion with that invasion. The most popular object in the apartment, is an equestrian figure of Elizabeth, in an imitation of the dress she wore when she went to St. Paul's to return thanks for the preservation of her kingdom, after the destruction of the Spanish Armada.

In this room also, is that frightful instrument of torture, called the Scavenger's Daughter; an iron hoop, which being opened and put round the body, when doubled in the most constrained attitude, was then brought together tighter by a screw till the pain became insupportable.

At the entrance to this armoury are two grotesque figures, vulgarly called Gin and Beer; they are of the time of Edward the Sixth, and are supposed by Dr. Meyrick to have been originally placed in the great hall of the palace at Greenwich, over the doors which led to the buttery and larder.

THE LIEUTENANT'S HOUSE

Occupies the south-west corner of the inner ward, on an open terrace which has two rows of trees, giving a secluded and monastic air to this part of the enclosure. As the private dwelling of an officer, it can contain nothing which admits of description except an apartment called the "Council Chamber," in which the commissioners appointed to investigate the Gunpowder Plot assembled. This event is commemorated by inscriptions on five oval slabs set in variegated marbles, fixed in the wall, and enclosed with doors, which were erected by the Lieutenant of the Tower at the time. One contains a panegyric on the King and royal family, and a prayer for their safety; another, a list of the commissioners and their titles*; a third, an inflated history of the conspiracy; the fourth, the names of the conspirators, with a Hebrew line and a distich underneath; and the fifth, a dedication of the monument; all in Latin. The arms of the Commissioners and of the Lieutenant are shown in a row of small shields round the cornice, and a carved wooden medallion of James is placed over the fireplace. During some improvements lately made in the dwelling, a curious old inscription, neatly cut on the stone of a mantel-piece, was discovered: it relates to the imprisonment of Margaret, Countess of Lennox, grandmother to James the First, on the 20th of June 1565, for the marriage of her son Lord Darnley with Queen Mary of Scotland.

They were Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, Henry Earl of Northampton, Charles Earl of Nottingham, Thomas Earl of Suffolk, Edward Earl of Somerset, Charles Blupt Earl of Devon, John Earl of Murray, George Earl of Dunbar, and Sir John Popham the Chief Justice.

The rest of the inner ward, and of the space between the two lines of fortification, is filled with comparatively modern houses, either public-offices, or the residences of officers and others; and the barracks, stores, &c., of the numerous garrison. These motley edifices of every possible form and size, give that picturesque air to the Tower, asa whole, when combined with its antiquities and its military fortifications, which renders even a walk through it a most delightful recreation for a man of taste and knowledge. The manner in which the houses are built, every foot of ground being valuable in such a place; the flights of steps up to the ramparts; the carronades on the bastions, and the sentinels seen through the embrasures as they walk up and down on duty; the advantage taken of every spot, to place a flower-pot or plant a green herb in the wilderness of brick: with the varied population of the place, render it one of the most remarkable scenes which London, or perhaps England, can boast.

We shall now proceed with an account of what there is curious in the remains of the thirteen towers which formed part of the defence of the inner ward, or Ballium, as it was called.

These towers consisted of two stories above ground, and were either square or circular. The walls are of great facings of masoury. There was a communication from strength, and built of flints and rubble, sometimes with tected by a parapet with embrasures, but this is quite lost tower to tower by a foot-way on the top of the wall, proby the modern dwellings raised on the ancient wall, though modern brick-work filling them up. The height of this in several places the old embrasures are still visible with the inner wall was forty feet, it being intended to command the outer works and the surrounding open space; it was communications were made underground between the twelve feet thick at bottom and about nine above; many towers, but these, we believe, are all stopped up, the vaults being now domestic oflices or cellars.

gate, is an archway under a public-house which leads to Immediately to the left, on passing the second bridgethe narrow street left by the present buildings between the outer and inner walls; this street goes quite round the inner ward, and in walking along it, the Towers, or what remains of them, present themselves in the following order. turret on it, with the alarum bell of the garrison, is close to The BELL TOWER, so called from its having a wooden the domestic offices of his establishment. Like all the the Governor's House, and is at present occupied as part of rest it was a prison-house, and in it were confined Bishop vaulted basement. Fisher and many others; it is circular, with a curious On the left of the entrance of the upper room, there is an inscription rudely cut by some unknown prisoner, complaining of having been tortured. It is a curious fact, though not noticed in Bayley's History of the Tower, that the precise words of the first two lines of this inscription, occur again in the same characters and spelling, in the Beauchamp Tower, in an inscription signed 1581, Thomas Myagh.

The BEAUCHAMP, or COBHAM TOWER, is the next, and stands in the middle of the western side; it derives its first name from having been the prison of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in 1397, and the latter from some of the Cobhams implicated in Wyatt's rebellion, in Mary's reign. It is two stories in height, and the staircase is in the thickness of the wall, which is fifteen feet thick on one side. The upper apartment has a heavy iron grating in the window, and the strong oaken floor is studded with large iron nails, indicating its former appli cation as a prison: the planks are worn in some parts, as if by the constant walking of the inmates. But the principal characteristic of the place consists in the numerous inscriptions and devices carved by these unfortunates. Of some of these we shall give a brief account as historically curious, and interesting in a moral point of view.

Near the entrance is a bold sculpture in several divisions, the central bearing a shield with the arms of the Peverel family, and the name, with the figure of a skeleton, and other emblematical devices, occurs in the others.

+ A Bastion is a projecting work of a fortification at each angle, by which the intervening line, called the curtain, can be raked by cannon placed on it. Bastions are of many forms; one of the oldest is circular, as at the Tower.

The garrison at present is about 600 strong, residing in the barracks; and it appears from the population returns of 1821, that there were 463 civil residents in 84 houses

On the right of a recess is an inscription in old Italian, meaning "Since fortune wills that my hope shall go to weep to the wind, I wish the time were destroyed; my star is ever sad and unpropitious.-Wilim Tyrrel, 1541,' He is supposed to have been a prisoner in Henry the Eighth's time.

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Over the fire-place is the signature of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, under a Latin inscription, signifying, The more affliction for Christ in this life, so much the more glory with Christ in a future. June 22, 1587." Another sentence has been subsequently added, implying, Thou, O God, hast crowned him with glory and honour." Near the middle recess is a well-carved device, by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, son of the Northumberland who endeavoured to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne. A shield, with the arms of the family within an enriched border of roses, oak slips, and other foliage: underneath are four doggrel lines, implying that his four brothers' names, who were prisoners at the same time, might be traced in the border. He has signed his own name "John Dudle." Among many others, not interesting enough to be mentioned here, there is one of a "Thomas Rooper," supposed to be a relative of Sir Thomas More, with the date 1570; and under a recumbent skeleton, a French alliterative line, " per passage penible passons a port plaisant," which may be rendered, By a painful passage pass we to a pleasant port.

The word, "Jane," is supposed to have been carved by the affectionate and unhappy husband of Lady Grey.

Another, of an oak-tree, with acorns, and the initials "R. D." below, is attributed to the celebrated Dudley, Lord Leicester, who was imprisoned for participating in Lady Grey's forced usurpation.

This room is at present the mess-room of the officers of the garrison, and it was in refitting it for this purpose, in 1796, that the foregoing interesting records were discovered.

The DEVEREUX TOWER, now so called from its having been the prison of the Earl of Essex, but previously known as THE DEVELIN TOWER, is situated at the north-west angle, immediately behind St. Peter's Chapel, and is supposed to to be more ancient than the former. It is circular, nineteen feet in diameter within, and the wall eleven thick; it is two stories high, and has been little changed, except by the substitution of modern windows for the old narrow loop-holes. The small winding stairs communicate with two cells constructed within the wall of the ward, from one of which there was a passage to the next tower. The basement is curiously vaulted, and is connected with a large dungeon, supposed to have communicated with St. Peter's Chapel; it is now the kitchen of a private dwelling.

Of THE FLINT TOWER the foundation-walls alone remain, the structure having become so ruinous as to render it necessary to take it down in 1796. It stood mid-way between Devereux and the BOWYER'S TOWER, so named from its being the residence of the Master of the King's Bows. The basement floor of this latter alone remains, on which a modern brick-building has been raised. The old part is strongly groined and vaulted, and is entered from the Train of Artillery through a wall ten feet thick. It is said to have been the prison and scene of the death of the Duke of Clarence, (see page 82). There is a trap-door in the floor opening on the top of a flight of steps, down to a still more dreary vault beneath, and the entrance to a passage of communication in the ballium wall is still seen, but, like the rest, it has been blocked up.

There are the remains of another tower, like Bowyer's, between that and the JEWEL TOWER, but presenting nothing remarkable. This last-named place is in the north-east angle of the inner ward; it was called the MARTIN TOWER, in 1641, and received its present name on becoming the place of deposit of the Regalia, or Crown Jewels. These had till then been kept, from the reign of Henry the Third, in a small building adjoining the White Tower. Cromwell, Earl of Essex, was one of the keepers of the Jewels, with a salary of fifty pounds a year.

The most interesting event connected with the articles of the Regalia was the attempt made on the 6th of May, 1671, by Blood, a disbanded oflicer, to steal them, in which he was bravely resisted by Edwards, to whom they had been committed by Sir Gilbert Talbot, the keeper. The lower and most ancient part of the tower is circular and of stone; the upper part is more modern, and of brick; it is in the vaulted room of the former that the Crown Jewels are kept.

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Jewel Room, and which, on account of their great value, are only permitted to be seen through a light iron railing. St. Edward's Crown, being the Imperial Crown used at the coronation of the kings of England, derives its name from an ancient crown, said to have been worn by Edward the Confessor, and destroyed during the Civil Wars. This was made for Charles the Second, and is richly embellished with pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. It is formed of four crosses, and as many fleurs-de-lis of gold, rising from a rim of gold, set with precious stones.

The Crown of State, made also for Charles the Second, is so called because worn by the sovereign when going in state to Parliament. Amongst a profusion of jewels it is distinguished by an emerald seven inches in circumference, a pearl said to be the finest in the world, and a ruby of great value.

The Queen's Diadem or Circlet of Gold was made for Mary d'Este, the consort of James the Second, at an expense of more than 100,0007.

The Queen's Crown is richly set with diamonds, and is used at the Corozation.

The Queen's Rich Crown is worn by the Queen on her return to Westminster-Hall after the Coronation.

The Orb, which rests in the King's right hand at his Coronation, and is borne on his left on his return to Westminster-Hall, is a ball of gold, six inches in diameter, banded with a fillet of the same metal, edged with pearl and ornamented with roses of diamonds. It is surmounted by a very fine amethyst, bearing a gold cross, thickly set. with diamonds and other stones.

The Ampulla, or Golden Eagle, is an antique vessel of pure gold, which contains the oil used at the Coronation. The Curtana, or Sword of Mercy which is borne naked before the King, between the two swords of justice at the Coronation, is of plain steel gilded. It is thirty-two inches in length.

St Edward's Staff, which is also borne before the King at the Coronation, is of beaten gold, four feet seven inches and a half in length.

The King's Sceptre with the Dove, is a staff of gold, three feet seven inches long, surmounted by a dove with wings expanded, the emblem of Mercy.

The King's Sceptre with the Cross, or Sceptre Royal, is likewise of gold, two feet nine inches in length, richly adorned with precious stones.

The Queen's Sceptre with the Cross is also of gold, but not quite so long as the preceding.

The Queen's Ivory Rod is a sceptre of white ivory, three feet one inch long. It was made for Mary d'Este queen of James the Second.

There is also another Sceptre, discovered in 1814, which is supposed to have been made for Mary, the consort of Williain the Third.

Amongst the other articles shown here, also, are the Armillæ, or Bracelets of solid gold, worn at the Coronation; the Royal Spurs, also of gold; the Salt-cellar of State, which is a model in gold of the White Tower; the Font used at the baptisms of the Royal Family; a silver Fountain presented to Charles the Second, by the town of Plymouth; and a splendid service of Communion Plate belonging to the Tower Chapel.

From the Jewel Tower the ballium-wall turns south to the river, and in this line are the CONSTABLE TOWER, and the BROAD-ARROW TOWER, both concealed by the range of buildings belonging to the Ordnance Office, on the Terrace, as it is called. The former tower has nothing worth remarking belonging to it; the latter is interesting from the numerous inscriptions on the walls of the apartment on the first floor, cut by the prisoners in the reigns of Mary and her sister.

At the south-cast angle of the ward is the SALT TOWER, or, as it is also termed, JULIUS CAESAR'S TOWER, of the date of William Rufus, and one of the oldest in the place. In the room on the first floor is a sculpture of a large sphere, under which is written,

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The LANTERN TOWER is in the southern angle of the enclosure, and was connected with a gateway which crossed the space between the outer and inner walls, but this, and the upper part of the tower, were removed in 1790, leaving only the basement-vault, now used as a cellar.,

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very miscellaneous description. The earliest are forty one rolls, termed Charta Antique, a collection of grants from the reign of Edward the Confessor, to the commence ment of the thirteenth century; and the most interesting are a series called the Close Rolls, beginning with John's reign, and continued to Edward the Fourth's. The purport and contents of these are so varied, as to be incapable of being enumerated; but they throw a great light on many parts of our domestic history, far more valuable than the treaties of peace and war, and proceedings of courts, pre served along with them.

The annexed view is the profile of St. Thomas's tower, taken from the eastern draw-bridge; showing the moat which this crosses, and which divides the wharf from the enclosure.

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GATEWAY TO BLOODY TOWER

Immediately adjoining is the principal gateway to the inner ward, called, from some forgotten reason, the BLOODY TOWER, possibly from the vague tradition of the murder of the young princes, Edward the Fifth, and the Duke of York; but, as before stated, there is no good authority for concluding that this ever took place. The Gateway, of which we give an engraving, is a splendid specimen of ancient strength and solidity; the gates and portcullis are very old; those at the northern end have been removed; in the passage of the gateway, which is thirty-four feet deep, the ceiling is boldly groined and carved.

Immediately opposite the BLOODY TOWER is a strong latticed gate in the outer wall, at the head of the flight of steps leading down to the passage of the TRAITOR'S GATE, before mentioned.

In the line of the strong outward wall, just within the moat, there were other towers for defence, of which we can give but a short notice. At the Barbican were the BULWARK GATE and the LION'S TOWER, of which little now remains, the site of the latter being occupied by the MENAGERIE, and its yards. The Martin and Byward Gates have been described; the former is now used as the hospital to the garrison. A few yards, on the right, within the latter, is an ancient arched portal, leading to a small wooden bridge over the moat, which is one of the communications between the fortress and the wharf: another and similar one, with a draw-bridge, is at the eastern end, or south-eastern angle of the moat; both these approaches are very curious and characteristic. On this line are the remains of three towers besides St. Thomas's, called the CRADLE TOWER, the WELL TOWER, and the IRON-GATE TOWER. The two former are obvious on the spectator's right hand in walking along the southern side, and are curious as old ruins; an arched gateway through one, leads to the drawbridge just mentioned. The modern defences,, which supply the place of these ruined edifices, consist of eight batteries round the outer walls, and on the two circular bastions at the north-east and north-west angles; mounting, in all, about thirty carronades.

The ROYAL MINT was first stationed in the Tower in the time of Henry the Third; and Elizabeth forbid all coining any where but at this place: from the great increase of business, consequent on our increasing population and trade, the old offices were found inadequate, and the new buildings on Tower Hill were erected for the purpose, about twenty-five years ago. The places within the walls being appropriated to barracks and store-rooms: the narrow street on the western side is still called Mint-street, and this is the only memorial now remaining of this office.

The principal public offices still within the Tower, are the RECORD OFFICE and the ORDNANCE OFFICE.

The records of the Court of Chancery were kept there at a very early period, soon after the Conquest; but great obscurity prevails respecting this part of our civil history; very little attention was paid to their charge by the different Keepers of the Rolls, till Government, in 1800, commenced a series of publications of them. These records are of a

THE TRAITORS' GATE AND MOAT

THE MENAGERIE.

IT was in Henry the Third's reign that foreign animals were first kept in the Tower, as a Royal Menagerie, when that monarch sent thither a white bear, which had been brought to him as a present from Norway, and which he prized very highly. In one year, the Sheriffs of London were ordered to pay four pence a day for his maintenance, and in the following year, they had directions to provide the said bear with a muzzle, a long chain, and a stout cord. In the time of Edward the Second, we find mention of the King's lion, of a quarter of mutton ordered for his daily food, and three half-pence a day to be given to his keeper. There exist many other notices in old records of the place respecting this collection, which was formerly very exten sive. James the First used to resort to the Tower, for the cruel and unprincely purpose of seeing Lions and other wild beasts baited by dogs. On one of these occasions a spaniel was cast into the lion's den, but the lion and he became friends, and lived together for several years. A great part of the present collection belongs to the keeper, and the rest are royal property.

It may be necessary to apprise our readers, that a very small part of the interiors of the edifices described can be seen at all. The admission fee to the Armouries is two shillings; to the Regalia, two shillings; and to the Menagerie, one shilling. After going through the whole, the visiter is required to write his name and address, and to pay a further fee of one shilling each person, with a donation of two, three, or four shillings, according to the number of persons composing the party.

The apartments occupied by the Records, which are the most interesting, of course can only be seen by great private interest; and the old towers, being all in the occupation of individuals, are not in any way accessible to visiters; but, nevertheless, there is enough to be seen gratuitously of the exteriors to reward the tasteful and rational curiosity of persons who can appreciate the inexpressible charm of antiquity and local associations.

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