. The history of the ancient borough of Pontefract, containing an interesting account of its castle, and the three different sieges it sustained, during the civil war, with notes and pedigrees, of some of the most distinguished royalists and parliamentarians, chiefly drawn from manuscripts never before published . HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT. 167 Strength of thisbuilding, and the improvement madeon the original mount; and at the same time exhi^bits a curious device for deception, something hkethat of the round tower at Rochester The other small tower, being in like mannercontinued down to the
. The history of the ancient borough of Pontefract, containing an interesting account of its castle, and the three different sieges it sustained, during the civil war, with notes and pedigrees, of some of the most distinguished royalists and parliamentarians, chiefly drawn from manuscripts never before published . HISTORY OF PONTEFRACT. 167 Strength of thisbuilding, and the improvement madeon the original mount; and at the same time exhi^bits a curious device for deception, something hkethat of the round tower at Rochester The other small tower, being in like mannercontinued down to the ground, beneath themount, contains a very singular, narrow, and mostirregularly winding, zig-zag staircase j whichgoes down from the door at/to a small sally-portat X; and moreover leads to what appears tohave been a well at gy and besides this it terminatesin one part, in a very frightful small dungeon,at ;:;. There do not appear to have been even loop*holes, or any admission for light or air, unlessfrom the door, into the great lower apartment ofthe keep ; only there was a small window in thecaptain of the guards room. The diameter of the keep is about 63 or64 feet. And between f and A is a very re-markable appearance j for after you have as-cended a ladder, against the inside of the wall,for a few feet, you t
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