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nics back to back, and the seat of 
a privy on the south side of them in 
the middle of it, and being secured 
with ‘battlements all round. This, 
says tradition, just before its demo- 
lition, had the daws building their 
nests in the holes of. it, and. the 
boys, by some broken stops (1 sup- 
pose) of the ancient staircase, went 
up to rob them. And Mr. Grant 
is said, when he wanted the stones 
_of it for his buildings, to have offer- 
ed a mason a couple of guineas for 
the demolition of it, to have after- 
wards marked the state of it to be 
so tottering, that it all rested upon 
a single stone; then to have induced 
the mason, without a fee, to go and 
remove that stone, and thus, almost 
before the mason could get away, to 
have brought the whole fabric to the 
ground. | Contiguous to the hall on 
the west, was the brew house. -.Ac- 
cordingly, in the coal-yard)adjoin- 
ing to the present garden : of. the 
hall, immediately beyond the hedge, 
and close to the new: privy. there, 
was found, in the coal+yard, a place 
that had been built wp tora furnace. 
This shewed the capacity of the fur- 
nace by its own size. he latter 
must have been Jarge enough to con- 
tain a hundred gallons. A vessel of 
such magnitude apily represents to 
us the expensive luxury of a baro- 
nial family then, in that great and 
almost only liquor of baronial cellars, 
ale. And, what corresponds with 
this idea of magnificence in brewing, 
the furnace had no less than four 
-flews to it. A little beyond this, 
and in the way from the gate of the 
coal-yard, to the ascent into the, 
building, there were found two walls, 
running parallel with each other, 
and leaving only a narrow space be- 
tween them. This, no doubt, was 
the guarded avenue from the water 
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vy in the body of the fabric ; this bee 
hold, while that was to the inferior ; 
_ dissolved into dust. 
1803. 
a 
gate into the body of the castle. 
‘The water-gate stood about the gate 
of the coal-yard, but more within 
the yard, and in a line with the wall 
of the dungeon, and the foundations 
of the hall. The narrow avenue 
shews it to have had a tower. over it 
A couple of moorstone apples also 
have been found here, that were 
neatly wrought with a tool, and had 
once served, assuredly, en ‘top the 
pinnacles obtinis tower. And, though 
this tower was square, while the first 
was round; it was like the «first, I 
suppose, in having the seat of a pri- 
vy on the top, and the pipe: of a pri- 
ing appropriated, perhaps, to the 
superior part of the baronial hous- 
and ‘this cing washed like that, no 
doubt, by an opening in the foun- 
dation, and by a dock from the 
brook. In the same coal yard, but 
two or three yards on the west of 
this, and near the rock, now cut 
down into a cliff, about forty years 
ago was found the skeleton of a man. 
A workman employed in digging up 
the deep soil that lay here, came 
running to his employer in a hurry, 
and, with a wildness of wonder, told 
him that he had founda man. The 
employer repaired to the place ; he 
there saw the fair figure of a man, 
above six feet high, with his right 
hand raised ¢reét above his head, and 
with his left reclining along his side. 
Ile advanced up to it, and touched 
it about the shoulder, and, to his 
astonishment, the whole skeleton 
vanished from his view at once, and 
This person, 1 
apprehend, had been employed in the 
same work by which he was disco- 
vered, and had been levelling the 
rough banks of the ground, for the 
reception of the castle. ‘The ground 
of 
