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Queen's Gate, faid to be that through 

 which the faithful Eleanor, Queen of Ed- 

 ward I. firft entered the caftle ; it has been 

 guarded by two portcullifes, and had once 

 a communication with the outlide of the 

 caftle by a draw-bridge over a deep moat. 

 It is at prefent confiderably above the level 

 of the ground on the outfide, owing pro- 

 bably to the foffe having been filled up with 

 earth from thence. 



The ftate apartments are larger, and have 

 been much more commodious than any of 

 the others. The windows have been wide and 

 elegant. On the outfide the building is fquare ; 

 but I was furprifed, upon going into them, 

 to find all the rooms perfectly polygonal, the 

 fides being formed out of the vaft thicknefs 

 of the walls. The floors and ftairs through- 

 out the caftle are almoft all beaten in and 

 demolifhed. 



There was formerly a gallery quite round 

 the caftle, by which, during a fiege, a com~ 



munication 



