The wanderings of a pen and pencil . Gate, Nottingham Castle. every reader that the castle lately destroyed by fire was an edifice of littlewarlike frontispiece. Leland says of the old castle : The bare court is largeand metely strong, being beasts and giants over the ditch into the second warde,the frontier of which ward in the entering is exceeding strong with part of the west side of this inner ward, as the hall and other things, bein ruins. The east side is strong and well towerd ; so is the south side. Butthe most beautiful and gallant building for a lodging is on the no
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . Gate, Nottingham Castle. every reader that the castle lately destroyed by fire was an edifice of littlewarlike frontispiece. Leland says of the old castle : The bare court is largeand metely strong, being beasts and giants over the ditch into the second warde,the frontier of which ward in the entering is exceeding strong with part of the west side of this inner ward, as the hall and other things, bein ruins. The east side is strong and well towerd ; so is the south side. Butthe most beautiful and gallant building for a lodging is on the north side, whereEdward IV. began a right sumptuous piece of stone work, of which he clearlyfinished an excellent good tower of three heights of building, and brought up MORTIMER S HOLE. 369 the other part likewise from the foundation with stone and marvellous faircompassed windows, to the laying of the first soil for chambers. The suc-ceeding illustration is Mortimers Hole, the historical reference to which J- 4- - fesjjS^. is at the fingers ends of every little schoolboy : (vide temp. Ed. III.) Thispassage through the sand-rock was provided with no less than six gates,besides one to the left hand. The distances were—from 1st to 2d, 48 feet;from 2d to 3d, 42 feet; from 3d to 4th, 45 feet. 159 feet afterwards was the5th gate: 27 feet lower was the last gate, now closed up, which opened intothe Rock Yard. The whole length of this once well-secured passage was321 feet. It measures 7 feet high, and 6 wide, with slips and loopholes inthe rock. The right entrance was discovered by a Mr. Stretton. Ofthis well-known rock and its history we can only offer the slender illus-trations to this portion of our Wanderings. The life of ColonelGeneral Hutchinson will afford much interest to those who would con-nect the towers of Nottingham with an important period of our consti-tutional development. There are fine antique buildings in the town. We 3 B 370 WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL.
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