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Octavius, Duke of Cornwall, and wife of 

 the Emperor Maximus.* 



The Caftle has been but fmall, occu- 

 pying the entire fummit of the mount on 

 which it was built. It has confifted of 

 two fquare towers, each three ftories high, 

 having one room on a ftory, and a court 

 yard which was betwixt them. The largeft 

 of thefe towers is, in the infide only, 

 twenty-feven feet in length, and eighteen 

 in width, and the walls are about fix feet 

 thick. The walls of the court are en- 

 tirely deftroyed, and of one of the other 

 buildings only a very fmall part is left. 



Who was the founder of this Caftle, or 

 what purpofe it was originally intended to 

 anfwer, we have not at this time any do- 

 cuments left to inform us. Moft proba- 



* Rowland's Mona Antiqua, 165. Camden fup- 

 pofes this Helen to have been the mother of Con - 

 ftantine the Great. See Camden's Britannia. 



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