Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . ,communicating with each other above and below by verycurious arcades or vaulted passages imbedded in the solidmasonry of the outer wall. The basement rooms, with theirhorizontal loop-holes and the marks of iron bars that havebeen long since wrested out, point vividly to what might have been their former destination ; The loop-hole glates where captives weep§—While in the superior range, the social hearth, the deep, butlofty windows, both within and without towards the river, *Rev. Montague Wynyard, curate oi
Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . ,communicating with each other above and below by verycurious arcades or vaulted passages imbedded in the solidmasonry of the outer wall. The basement rooms, with theirhorizontal loop-holes and the marks of iron bars that havebeen long since wrested out, point vividly to what might have been their former destination ; The loop-hole glates where captives weep§—While in the superior range, the social hearth, the deep, butlofty windows, both within and without towards the river, *Rev. Montague Wynyard, curate oi Bilston (Belston). tit has been supposed that a causeway and drawbridge over the riveronce existed; but the broken ground without the barbacan may have beencaused by the working of a mill that once stood near it, and which appearsin an old view of the castle ruins in possession of the Rev. RichardHolland. XT\\Q floor between them has however disappeared. ^SUn the wall of the chapel we read a memorial of the same strain,although in later days:—V thicfuit captivus belli, 7//7r 7W; v^--:-i^i?-if 1. Vy/<^/ZSZ. mr%mm
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