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which the foundations of the parallel wall still appear and had 

 its own foundations there dug up about forty years ago. Both 

 terminated at this bank as I have already shewn and so united 

 with the western line of the castle-wall that has been discovered at 

 this point coinciding with the end of the building in the coal- 

 yard, and the assigned place of the gateway. But from this 

 termination of the northerly wall, another wall must have com- 

 menced carrying on the course of the western wall up to the 

 bank, of the road from the church to the mill and pointing 

 through the perched house there a little to the east of the 

 porch. 



Parallel with this have been found in the long and narrow 

 garden adjoining, several walls issuing from the great wall, and 

 crossing the narrow breadth of the garden. These were 

 evidently the foundations of a range of rooms that extended 

 along the northern face of the great wall, as another extended 

 along the southern and constituted one side of a higher court as 

 the other did of a lower, and as the depth of the garden below 

 the road, about five feet, has been produced by the existence of 

 cellars under all ; so the breadth of the garden about. . . .feet 

 denotes the size of the rooms, not much superior in dimensions 

 to those on the southern side. 



On the road then from the church to the mill and about the 

 porch^^of the perched house stood the gateway of the Higher 

 Court ; facing the greater church style, admitting the road from 

 it at this front gate, and dismissing it to the mill at a back gate, 

 where the great hall and long garden equally terminate to the 

 west. How far this higher court went to the north I cannot 

 ascertain, no remains are known to be discovered behind the 

 perched house or behind its accompanying house on the west, 

 but it extended some way no doubt ; it formed a great quadrangle 

 or regular court, and its memory has been nearly lost, I suppose, 

 to the present generation, from its materials having been easily 

 begged of the lords by their nominees, the Eectors, for the 

 enlargement of the parsonage house, for the inclosure of its 

 Courts, and for the reconstruction of its offices. Two of the 

 three towers we fixed of course upon the two gateways of this 

 higher Court, the third was fixed I believe upon another gateway 



