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means of knowing the exact character of the latter, I have adhered 
to the form elsewhere given. There was lhkewise a guard at 
Mount Wise. We can fix the position of the outworks with near 
approach to full accuracy from the traces which still remain, or 
which existed down to a recent period. The sketch map of 1648 
supplies the names of the chief works; but two others are men- 
tioned towards the close of the Siege, which we cin only locate 
conjecturally. These are Little Pennycomequick Work and Little 
Maudlyn Work. From the discoveries of tobacco-pipes and other 
relics on the site of Houndiscombe House, there can be no doubt 
that the former stood there. Little Maudlyn Work I am inclined, 
from the configuration of the ground, and the fact that the spot 
was once occupied by a work belonging to the besiegers, which 
caused great annoyance to the Roundheads, to place on the brow 
of the hill to the immediate N.W. of Maudlyn. The levels and 
contours of the Ordnance Survey have greatly aided in defining 
the old water-line; and I have dotted in the courses of some of 
the chief modern thoroughfares exterior to the old town. In both 
maps the defences, for the sake of clearness, are drawn upon a 
larger scale than the general plan. 
There were a few points of defence which are not indicated in 
either map. We find in the Siege Accounts, to be referred to 
hereafter, references to three half-moons at Gasking Gate, and to 
another at the New Gate by the Friary, for raising which, in May 
and June, 1645, seven boat-loads of stones were brought. These 
half-moons were A. shaped works, pointing towards the enemy. 
The greater part of the wall was of slate—certainly the older 
portions. A fragment remains behind one of the houses in Ham 
Street, and there is a portion worked into the wall of the court- 
yard of a house adjoining the site of Gasking Gate. Recently 
(April, 1875] nearly the whole of a much more important section 
has been removed, in connection with the construction of the Friary 
Station of the South-Western Railway. Though generally re- 
garded as the wall of the Friary Grounds, the wall in question, 
marked with a star in the map, was evidently a part of that built 
under the corporate order of 1643. It was of stone from the ruins 
of the Friary, partly raised on slate foundations, about 10 feet high 
on the exterior, averaged two feet thick, and had a bank cast up 
against it on the inner side, with a walk, whereon the garrison 
used to take their stand. The whole wall was probably terraced 
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