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nificent, elegant, and curious, as to exceed, in the judgment of 

 an eminent antiquary, all the buildings on the other fide of 

 Trent (o) : the fituation fomcwhat higher than the reft of the 

 country , the walls of ftone, large and fquare, and forne of it fo 

 fine, as to be thought to be imported from France ; five towers at 

 each corner ; in one of them a ftudy, called Paradife, where 

 was a clofet in the middle of eight fquares, latticed about ; at 

 the top of every fquare, a defk, ledged, to fet books on, with 

 drawers within, and feemingas if firmly joined to the top of the 

 clofet, yet one or all would come down, and fcrve for book-defies. 

 It was moted round, except the entrance j a chapel and gardens 

 within the mote, and orchards without, wherein were mounts 

 opere topiario, with winding walks, to afcend to the top withoir 

 pain. 



Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and his fon, Sir Henry Percy, 

 wardens of the Weft and Eaft marches againft Scotland, with the 

 Earl of Weftmorland, congratulated Henry Duke of Lancafter and 

 Hereford at Doncqfter, after his landing at Ravenfpur, in Tork/fjire, 

 whom the Lord Ros, Baron of Wark and Helmjly, and other Lords, 

 had joined before, 22 K. Richard II, 1399 ; all the noblemen and 

 men of note in the nation following their example, and receiving 

 him for their fovereign ; King Richard being left without one 

 confolatory friend. So general was the national defection, that 

 Father Orleans, in his Hiftory of the Revolutions in England, fays, 

 that even the king's favourite greyhound left him, and fawned 

 upon the duke (p). After his being taken at Ccwuvy-caftle, in 



(o) Lei. Itin. vol. vi. p. 13. 



(p) Pert <T Orleans, torn. ii. p. 188. 

 Stow's Chron. p. 316, 317. 

 Collier's Ecclef. Hift. vol. i. p, 601, 60?. 



Wales, 



