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the figure of an eagle yet left at the top of 

 it, ftands at one end of the oblong court of 

 the caftle, and has three handfome turrets 

 ilTuing from it's top. 



In this tower it was that Edward, the 

 firft Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward II. 

 was born, on St. Mark's day, the 25th of 

 April, 1284. Mr. Pennant * fays, that the 

 prince was brought forth " in a little dark 

 *' room not twelve feet long, nor eight in 

 breadth." This aiTertion is certainly found- 

 ed upon tradition, but I wonder very much 

 at that gentleman's retaining the opinion, 

 after he had once examined the place. This 

 room has indeed had a window and a fire 

 place in it, but has never been any thing 

 more than a parTage-room to the other 

 apartments, which, during the queen's ill- 

 nefs, though nearly the moft magnificent 

 jn the caftle, muft have been fhut up, as 



* Tour in Wales, II. 215. 



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