The antiquities of England and Wales . refl ofthe faid tower. Item, there is a breach in the wall in the outer ward, which fell12 March, i ^^y, containing in length fixty-nine foot and a half, inthicknefs nine foot, and in height with the battlement eighteen foot;through which breach men may eafily pafs and repafs. Item, the captains tower, another principal defence, wanteth aplatform, and the -f- vawmer about forty-four foot, in breadth fortyfoot, and in thicknefs eight foot. Item, three parts of the walls of the inner ward is not vawmer,containing in length three hundred and forty-four foot,
The antiquities of England and Wales . refl ofthe faid tower. Item, there is a breach in the wall in the outer ward, which fell12 March, i ^^y, containing in length fixty-nine foot and a half, inthicknefs nine foot, and in height with the battlement eighteen foot;through which breach men may eafily pafs and repafs. Item, the captains tower, another principal defence, wanteth aplatform, and the -f- vawmer about forty-four foot, in breadth fortyfoot, and in thicknefs eight foot. Item, three parts of the walls of the inner ward is not vawmer,containing in length three hundred and forty-four foot, and in thick-nefs twelve foot, and in height three foot, with one half round. Item, the caftle gates are in decay, and needful to be made new. Item, there is not in the faid caftle any ftorehoufe meet for theordnance and munition; fo as the fame lieth in the town verydangeroufly for any fuddeu enterprize. ?f- Avantmur, the parapet. nihil Iliiisiiiili iit: iiitniiiiniiiniiiB; ^lltlHiillliliillillililiiJiliiililiMiilii liiifeiiailJE. CUMBERLAND. 49 Item, there is decayed the gkfs of two great windows; the onein the great chamber, and the other in the hall of the faid caftle. The ordnance, artillery, and munition in the caflle at that timewere, fagers 2, fawcons 4, all difmounted: fawconets 2, whereofone not good; one little pot-gun of brafs : demi-bombarders 2:bafes double and fingle 12, lacking furniture: half ftaggs 39, notferviceable: bows of yew, none: arrows, 6 fcore fheafs, in decay-:moris-pikes 30,-not good: fager fliot of iron 58, fager iliot oflead 70. This view, which iliews the N. E. afped, was drawn anno 1774. COCK E% Mouth castle. (Plate I. ) jf H I S was the baronial caftle of the honour of Cockermouth,built, as is fuppofed, foon after the conqueft, by Williara de Mef-chines, who poffefTed that honour by gift of his brother Ranulph,earl of Cumberland, to whom the conqueror gave all that part ofCumberland, called Copeland, lying between the Dudden and ihsDarwent. Fr
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