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Item, betwen the same tower and the gaite that goith into the Nese, 

 is the distaunce of Ixvii yerds, a part wherof must be underset at the 

 foundacion, which is worne by soarges of the wattir. 



Item, betwen the same gaite that goith into the Nes, and the Wattir 

 (iaite, is the distaunce of x score and xi yerds of aid wall, maid of stone 

 and erth, fare in decay. 



Itm, the same Wattir Gaite, beings mayd of yeron, is in such 

 extreme decaye as it is unneth habill to be oppynned and lokked. So 

 that in theyr playces other new gaitts must be maid and set upe. 



Itm, betwen the Wattir gaite and the Maysyndue* gaite, is ix score 

 and xviii yerds ; the most part wherof maid of stone and claye, and 

 in soore decaye. 



Itm, bitwen the Maysyndeu gaite and the Brige gaite, it being the 

 entre from over the Brige into the town, is the distaunce of iii score 

 and xvi yerds. 



Itm, the gayte at the said Briggaite is made of wood and in great 

 decaye ; and the wawlles abowte the same gaite ar neither of any 

 strength ne good, like to the avewe. 



Itm, betwen the Briggaite and the Percy tower, is the distannce of 

 V hundreth and iiii score yerdes, the moost parte being made of stoone and 

 clay, is soo low that a man may stand within the wawU and take a 

 nother by the hand without the wawll ; and diverse parts of the same 

 like to fawll ; and one part, conteiiynge in bred xii yerds, is ail redy 

 fawllyn to the erth. 



Itm, it is to be noted that bitwixt the new tower upon the Sandes 

 and the Pt^rcy tower at the entre into the Castell furth of the town, 

 being the distaunce of viii hundreth iiii score and xvi yerdeS; ther is not 

 iu any parte of the wawll, any maner of tower bulwark or separate 

 place of owtwart defence to be mayd, bot onely upon the height of 

 the wawll. 



Itm, it is necessary that the new tower upon the Brige be buyldyt 

 upe, which might be a great strength for that part of the town. For 

 the same tower, standinge as it doith, and the wawll uncovered, 

 grewith greatly in decay, by reason that the rayn gyttith entre into 

 the wawll above, and discendith and perishith the same in weshinge 

 away the lyme. 



Itin, the towers of defence abowt the wawUss restith uncovered, by 

 reson wherof the rayn fallen upon the coiitrmore discendith through 

 the same, and perishith the vault, and mostionith the ordenance and 

 powder within the same towers. 



The Castell. 



First, the entre frome the Percy tower unto the said Castell unto 

 the Drawbridge is the distaince of ]ti yerds, and the same Drawbrige 

 is iiii yerds over ; and bitwixt the same Drawbrige and the Dongeon, 



* The Hospital of the Domus Dei, otherwise the Maison Dieu. 



