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fide is the hall, twenty yards long and twelve 

 broad. The porter's lodge is a Bridewell.* 



There has been a communication round 

 the buildings of the inner court by a gal- 

 lery two yards broad, which is yet in a 

 great meafure entire. In recefTes in dif- 

 ferent parts of the fides of this are fquare 

 holes, which feem to have had trap doors 

 opening into a kind of dungeon beneath. 

 The ufe of which, unlefs for fecuring pri- 

 foners, I have not been able to learn. 

 They muft have "been defcended by lad- 

 ders, as there are no remains of fteps in 

 any of them. The two eaftern towers 

 ferved alfo as dungeons, and the defcent to 

 them was dark and narrow, as were the 

 galleries around them. 



On the eaft fide of the building are the 

 remains of a very fmall chapel, arched and 

 ribbed with pointing and interfering arches. 



* Grofe's Antiquities of England and Wales. 



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