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jackdaws building their nests in. tlie holes of it, and the boys by 

 some broken steps, I suppose tlie ancient steps of the staircase, 

 went up to rob them, and Mr. Grrant is said when he wanted the 

 stones of it for his buildings to have offered a mason a couple of 

 guineas for the demolition of it, and to have afterwards 

 marked the state of it to be so tottering that it all rested upon a 

 single stouc, then to have induced the mason without a fee to go 

 and remove that stone, and thus almost before the mason could 

 get away to have brought the whole fabric to the ground. 



Contiguous to the Hall on the West, was the brew-house, 

 accordingly in the coal-yard adjoining to the present garden of 

 the Hall immediately beyond the bridge was found in making 

 the coal-yard a place that had been built up for a furnace, this 

 showed the capacity of the furnace by its own size, the latter 

 must have been large enough to contain 100 gals. : a vessel of 

 such a magnitude aptly represents to us the expensive luxury of 

 a baronial family then, in that great and almost only liquor of 

 baronial cellars, ale, and what corresponds with this idea of 

 brewing, the furnace had no less than four flues to it. A little 

 beyond this and in the way from the gate of the coal-yard to the 

 ascent into the building there were found two walls running 

 parallel with each other and leaving only a narrow space between 

 them, this, no doubt was the guarded avenue from the water- 

 gate into the body of the castle, the water-gate stood about the 

 gate of the coal-yard, but more within the yard and in a line 

 with the wall of the dungeon and the foundations of the Hall. 

 The narrow avenue shows it to have had a tower over it ; a couple 

 of moor-stone apples also have been found here, that were 

 neatly wrought with a tool, and had once served assuredly to 

 top the pinnacles of this tower, and though this tower was 

 square while the first was round, it was like the first I suppose. 



In the same coal-yard, but 2 or 3 yards on the west of this 

 and near the rock now cut down into a cliflf, about 40 years ago 

 was found the skeleton of a man ; a workman employed in 

 digging up the deep soil which lay here came running to his 

 employer in a hurry and in wildness of wonder told him " He 

 had found a man." The employer repaired to the place, he 

 there saw the fair figure of a man about 6 feet high with his 



