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bable that Jordan's caflle was erefted by one of that 

 family, whofe arms, a crofs and three horfe {hoes, are 

 fixed in a flone near the top. St. Patrick founded a 

 church at Ardglafs. 



Another confiderable building, extending on a plat- 

 form near 234 feet, including a flanker at each end, 

 with a battlement breafl high towards the fea, and 

 which the author of the Hiflory of the County of 

 Down thinks was anciently a place where wares were 

 fold, as well as a fortification for flrength, has been 

 converted by Lord Lecale into a molt elegant habita- 

 tion, who has with great judgment and tafle preferved 

 the antique caftellated appearance. The above men- 

 tioned author thinks, that this building was formerly 

 erected to prefer ve the merchants from the infults of 

 the Irifh. 



Kilclief caflle is fituated on the entrance of the bay 

 of Strangford. This was once the fee-houfe of the 

 bifhops of Down ; it was here that John Celey, bifhop 

 of that fee, publicly lived with Lettice Thombe, a mar- 

 ried woman; for which fcandal, Swain, archbifhop of 

 Armagh, in 1441 ferved him with a monitory procefs 

 in his caflle at Kilclief; and there was a chamber in the 

 caflle called the hawk's chamber, where it was faid 

 the bifhop kept his falconer and his hawks. This tra- 

 dition might have been taken from the figure of a bird 

 refembling a hawk, carved on a flone chimney-piece ia 

 a room on the fecond floor, on which is alfo cut, in 

 Q^ bas 



