The antiquities of England and Wales . taking refuge ina church at Coventry, abjured the realm; or, as fome writers fay^was with his wife and child (hortly after banifhed. Camden quotes the following curious account of the fiege,from a writer contemporary with the fafts defcribed. On the eaft fide were one petrary and two mangonels daily?pplving upon the tower. On the weft twa mangonels batteringthe old tower; as alfo one upon the fouth, and another upon thenorth part, which beat down two paffages through the walls thatwere next them. Befides thefe there were two machines contrivedof wood, fo
The antiquities of England and Wales . taking refuge ina church at Coventry, abjured the realm; or, as fome writers fay^was with his wife and child (hortly after banifhed. Camden quotes the following curious account of the fiege,from a writer contemporary with the fafts defcribed. On the eaft fide were one petrary and two mangonels daily?pplving upon the tower. On the weft twa mangonels batteringthe old tower; as alfo one upon the fouth, and another upon thenorth part, which beat down two paffages through the walls thatwere next them. Befides thefe there were two machines contrivedof wood, fo as to be higher than the caftle and tower, erefted forthe purpofe of the baliftarii, or gunners and watchmen; they hadfeveral machines, wherein the gunners and {lingers lay in ambufh;alfo there ^vas moreover another machine, called cattus, underwhich the diggers who were employed to undermine the walls ofthe tower and caftle came in and out. The caftle was taken byfour aliaults; in the firft was taken the barbican ; in the fecond the. Q 5 K ^c S J^ojt/t 2 4 f> (f (Bekk shire J > f- ^ oA ^:\^^ o * 7l> rfhr PART or IB-E K//^ ?!/?- vj** J//i^« slithery SUJ,, ... ^_- _. SiniRE I Part of Hamp .Shire \ Scicth. ^ BERKSHIRE JLS an inland county, that containedthe whole of that Britifh principality inhabited bythe Atrebatii, who are fuppofed to have been originally from Gaul. When Conflantinedivided the ifland into Roman provinces, in 310, this principality was included in Bri-tannia Prima, the firft divifion, whofe boundaries were the Englifh Channel on thefouth, and the Thames and Severn on the north. On the Romans quitting the ifland,and civil diflentions enabling the Saxons to eftablifh the Heptarchy, this part of thecountry was included in the kingdom of the Weft Saxons, which commenced in 519,and continued till 828, when it became tlie only remaining fovereignty, having con-quered all the others; and they were incorporated by the name of England, underEgbert; whofe
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