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this slde were ascended. The approach to the Castle this 

 way was through the park, which lay on the north side, 

 including the picturesque ground between Farleigh and 

 Iford. 



The Upper court ended where a line of wooden rails now 

 Grosses the Castle yard. Here was an inner gate-house, 

 through which was the way to the quadrangle forming the 

 dwelling house. Of this gate-house Leland says, " It was 

 fair ; and there the arms of the Hungerfords richly made 

 yn stone. " On each side of it were two smaU round towers, 

 the füundation of one of which is still visible. On either 

 side of the site of this entrance is a small sunk garden, or 

 court. At each of the four angles of the house was a high 

 round tower, and in the intervals, from tower to tower, were 

 the larger apartments. Leland says, " The haule and 

 Chambers were stately, and were commonly reported to 

 have been built by one of the Hungerfords, by the prey of 

 the Dulic of Orleans, whom he had taken prisoner. " This 

 common saying was, however, incorrect, so far as regards 

 the personal capture of the Duke of Orleans at Agincourt. 

 Sir Walter Hungerford was certainly at that battle, and 

 may have been enriched by the ransom of prisoners ; but 

 it is generally allowed that the Duke of Orleans was made 

 prisoner by Sir Richard Waller, of Speldhurst, in Kent. 



By an excavation made in 1845, the foundations of some 

 of the basement rooms were brought to light. The remains 

 of a furnace, ashpit, oven, and flue, found in the N.W. corner 

 of the lower court, show that the inferior parts of the house 

 must have been towards that side. The principal front, as 

 drawn in Buck's Antiquities, faces the east. This front, as 

 well as that on the western side, rose directly upon the 

 edge of the castle knoU. On the north side, where the 

 knoll cnds most abruptly, and is accordingly guardcd by a 



