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Putting new ashlar in the most defective places of the castle. 



Providing iron casements and glass, lead for the roof, tiles for the 

 stable, and timber for the lower platform and the bridge. The cost 

 altogether = 2 11 5s. 6d. (Declared acc'ts. Pipe office, 3582.) 



We now reach a comprehensive report as to the condition 

 of this " bulwark " and its readiness for war. In the year 

 1623 James I. instructed Sir Richard Morryson and two other 

 officers to make an exact survey of all the royal fortifications 

 on the Thames and Medway, and from thence along the 

 south coast as far as Land's End. The recommendations 

 clearly indicate that Weymouth Castle was again in peril 

 from subsidence, notwithstanding all that had been done 

 some twelve years earlier. An abbreviated statement of the 

 result of the inspection is here quoted 



" The Institution." 

 . Sir Wm. Bamfield ; the reversioner being Sir Wm. Trenchard. 



Thos. Pawlett, lieutenant, 9d. per diem. 



Bryan Yates, porter, 8d. Richard Champpion, master gunner, 8d. 

 Henry Haider, Andrew Pitt, Wm. Cumphye and Nicholas Eyles, 

 gunners, 6d. The captain's three men, 6d. 



Iron ordnance, serviceable, 10, viz., 1 culverin, 5 demi-culverins, 



2 sakers, 1 minion, 1 fawcon. 



225 round shot of iron. 501bs. musket shot. Powder and match. 

 9 ladles, complete (used for drawing the charge of a gun). Black 

 bills. Crowes. Cressetts unstaved. 20 pairs heads and rammers. 



3 chain shot. 

 Unserviceable ordnance, &c. 



" Calyvers with croked stocks." 1 saker, valued at 16. 16. 0. 

 Short and long pikes. Flasks and touch boxes with strings. Two 

 demi -culverin carriages to be cut shorter. 



Reparations. In this castle (Sandsfoot) the middle square tower 

 is covered with lead, with a platform upon the same, the fourth part 

 being quite decayed. The leaks are to be repaired and covered with 

 boards pitched and strewed with shell sand. The platform being out 

 of use, and to prevent the charge of mending, is to be removed for better 

 service upon the lower battery which had been left unfinished by one 

 Gibbons. 



All things else concerning the house are in very good repair. 



At the lower battery upon the water, one corner thereof the water 

 hath undermined. The wall is of free stone very sufficiently built 

 against the water towards the east and would be very convenient 



