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half dozen of its Governors are known, but no interest would 

 attach to their enumeration. The same must be said of the 

 references, few and far between, to the existence of the castle 

 and its garrison, in the borough archives archives which are 

 alas in private hands, and probably about to suffer dispersion to 

 the four winds of heaven under the very noses of a body of 

 men whom I fear I must characterise as indifferent to the history 

 of their borough, and more antiquarian in their notions than in 

 their tastes. 



