76 president's address. 



the arches, are examined, they are all in strict accordance with 



works carried on contemporaneously. We have the details of 



Carnarvon, of Dudley, and of Alnwick, closely repeated. The 



other point to be noticed is the skilful way the corbelling is 



managed towards the summit of the two towers of entrance, 



which throws them square instead of semicircular, as they 



spring from the ground. Dunstanborough had fallen into great 



dilapidation in the reign of Henry ^ VIII., as we learn from 



the curious survey of Bellasis and others, taken 22nd February, 



29th Henry VIII. (1538), which states,* inter alia,— ''The 



castelle of Dunstanburghe is a very reuynous^ howse, and of 



smallye strengthe. There is no logynges stondynge bikt the 



dongeone, wiche has two littylle towres jonet apone athere end 



of the said dongeone, wiche dongeone, with boithe the towres, 



the leydes of their royffes must be new castyne and mayd with 



guttes spowtes and fyllettes, for the doynge thereof, where leyde 



wants, there is in the said castelle old leyde that wyll doo it, 



and more, and the charges for castynge of the leydes for all the 



royffes aforesaide, vj'- . . . Item, one of the said two 



towres must have a new royffe and two flores for the wyche 



viij tonne of tymbere will serue, wyche tymbere must be had in 



Chopwelle wode and framyd at New Castelle and caryed by 



wattere, iiij^- . Item, ther is a towre callyd Lylborne Towre, 



wich haith veray good walles and a good royff' of tymbere, but it 



must be new coueryd withe leyd, and for that leyd that wanttes 



ther is old leyd in the castelle to serue, and the charges of the 



plumber wyl be xviij^- . . . i^e?«, ther must be for the said 



towres two llores boith hordes and yestes, for the wiche v tonne of 



tymbere will serue, and for dores and wyndowes, wiche tymbere 



must be had ia Chopwelle wode aforesaid and carried by wattere, 



all charges thereof by estimacion iiij'- " And after enumerating 



other repairs required, describing the well in the inner Avarde as 



* The survey, which extended over thecastlesofBamborough, Dunstanborough, Alnwick, 

 Warkvvorth and Ilurbottle, was made in consequence of Denry Algernon, the sixth Earl 

 Percy, having placed liis lands in the hands of Henry VIII. when he died, his brother Sir 

 Tlionias having been attainted and executed under suspicion of being concerned in Aske's 

 nonspiracj'. The lands were, liowevcr, regrantcd to his son, Sir Thomas, by (^ueen Mary, 

 who held them till his executioa at York. 



