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NOTES ON CLIFFORD’S TOWER. 
By GEO. BENSON and H. M. PLATNAUER. 
EMBERS of this Society, and all others who are inter- 
csted in the preservation of historical relics, owe a 
debt of gratitude to Lord Wenlock and other members of the 
Yorkshire County Committee, who, acting under the advice 
of Mr. Micklethwaite, induced His Majesty’s Government to 
make a grant for preserving Clifford’s Tower before restoring 
it to the custody of the County of York. The nature of the 
operations undertaken for this purpose commands our admira¬ 
tion no less than does their object, for the work is thoroughly 
and effectually done, and it is concealed, thus achieving its 
purpose without in any way offending the eye. 
The writers of these notes do not propose to deal with either 
the history or structure of Clifford’s Tower. The former is 
excellently summarized in a brochure written by the Castellan, 
Mr. F. Munby, and entitled “ Clifford’s Tower, a prospect 
and retrospect.” For information as to the structure of the 
keep, the reader is referred to an able paper by Mr. G. T. Clark 
in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society for 
1874, while fuller and more general information as to its 
purpose may he obtained by reference to the same writer’s 
to have a more critical knowledge of the subject would do well 
to read a criticism of Mr. Clark’s views by Mr. J. H. Round in 
“ Archaeologia ” LYIII., pt. 1, pp. 313-340, and also a paper 
by Mrs. Armitage in Proc. Scot. Soc. Ant. XXXIV., pp. 
