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tlie exact situation of the various outer defences of tbe 

 Castle itself. There is a plan of "Warwick park, circa 

 1760 preserved, which gives a general idea of the state 

 of the defences prior to the alterations a century ago; 

 but at that time there was no signs of a gatehouse where 

 the town wall joined the fosse beneath Caesar's Tower, 

 nothing is shown but a simple curtain wall, possibly the 

 one now remaining. There was a wall skirting the 

 roadway from Castle-street until it reached the gates of 

 the Castle, which stood in a line between Caesar's Tower 

 and the angle of the present stables. These were removed 

 when the old bridge was destroyed by a flood and the 

 new one erected, which enabled the road to be diverted 

 and the present entrance lodge built. 



With respect to the town walls. There are signs of the 

 embankment on which they were erected at the back of 

 Mill Street. The site of the Castle gate-house was probably 

 occupied by a corner or mural tower. Another bastion 

 would be necessary near the angle of the alms houses 

 adjoining the road, and a simple curtain wall would connect 

 it with the present East gate. On the north of the East 

 gate a small piece of the original wall is visible to every 

 passer-by, and in the garden attached to the house [East 

 Gate House] in which Walter Savage Landor was bom, 

 the fosse of the wall can be distinctly traced. Part of 

 the masonry was, doubtless, used to form the foundations 

 of the few cottages in the Butts facing the road. On 

 reaching the garden wall of the house occupied by Dr. 

 Baly, we find that the earth here is considerably raised, 

 and on the eastern face, in Chapel-street, the foundation 

 of a quarter-circular or semi-circular tower or bastion is 

 visible. Up to this point, the walls evidently formed the 



