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Item, bitwen the said NycoUes tower and the Blak Watchowse tower, 

 is the distaunce of vi score yerds. The foundacion of divers places wherof, 

 with of a butterace laitely mayd for strengthin^ of the same, is wore 

 away by soarges of the wattir ; to the danejer of the fallinge of a part 

 of the same wawll, within breve tyme, without the same be the moor 

 haistely repayred and araendyt. The entre into the same Bbik 

 Watchowse tower is, through the counter moor, xxiit foote in length, 

 and V foote and a half iu bred, and in wydnes within viii foote, and 

 the mayne wawll of the same tower outwart is viii foote thik, and is 

 so renyn and in such decay as the guner dare not occnpye any pece 

 of ordenance within the same for doubt of fawllinge therof. And is 

 fylled with erth frome the vault upwart. 



Item, bitwen the Blak Watch house tower and the Watch house 

 tower, is the distaunce of vi scoi-e yerds, and is in right soore decay, and 

 in dangr of fawllinge a great part of it. The entringe into the same 

 tower is in length xxvi foote, and in bred v foote ; and the tyraber 

 above rotten, and in such caaco as other entres aforsaid be. The 

 tower -within is in wydenes viii foote; and the mayne wawll of the 

 same owtwart viii thik, and in such ruyn as it is lyke to fawU to the 

 ground. Nor doabt wherof ther dare no guner occupy any ordenance 

 within the same. 



Item, bitwen the same Watchowse tower and the Plommer's tower 

 is the dis'aunce of iiij score yerds, ail which is in soore decay by sonrges of 

 the wattir. And the wawll must in some parts be takyn down and 

 mayd of newe. And in other some parts it must be substancially 

 pynned and poynted with stone and lyme. The entre into the said 

 Plommer's tower conteignith in length xxxxi foote, through the counter 

 moore, and in bred v foot. The over helinge whrof, maid of tymber, in 

 lyke decayes as the other entres aforsaid. The widenes of the tower 

 ■within is vii foote ; and the mayne wawll owtwarde vii foote thike, and 

 in such decay as it is lyke to fawll to the ground. Nor doubt wherof 

 ther dare no guner occupye any ordenance within the same. And the 

 over part, frome the vault upwards, is fylled with erth. 



Item, bitwen the Plommer's tower and the tower within the stoone 

 bulwarke of the Sandes, is the distaunce of iiii score xviii yerds ; wherof 

 divers partts are in soore decay. And the same tower doith serve for 

 no defence, bot for one entre into the said bulwark, which bulwarke is 

 set unto the said tower, and so dangered with the see as, in the tyme 

 of full see, ther can no guner remayn within the same, ne any 

 ordenance keped dry there ; and is oppyn above and haith no maner 

 of coveringe ; and contenith within in wydenes ix foote ; and the 

 mayne wawll in thikness iiii foote, and in height xiiii footte frome 

 the ground. 



Item, betwen the saide bulwark and the new tower of the Sands, ia 

 the distaunce of vi score yerds. The foundacion whereof is in great decay 

 by the sourginge of the wattir, and must be underset in diverse partts 

 with stone and lyme. And the same new tower conteignith within in 

 wydenes ix foote, and the mayne wawll in thikness iiii foote. 



