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Identifier: antiquitiesofen01gros (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of England and Wales
Year: 1785 (1780s)
Authors: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
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Publisher: London : S. Hooper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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marriage to Charles Seymour, duke of Somerfet; and by thedeath of Algernon (the laft duke) without heirs male, it defcended,.together with the title of earl of Egremont, to Sir Charles Wind--ham, bait, whofe fon is the prefent proprietor. Other accounts attribute the building of this caftle to Wal-dof, firft lord of Allerdale, fon of Gofpatrick, Earl of Northum-berland, cotemporary with William the Conqueror. Waldof, itis faid, refided firft at Pappe caftle, in this neighbourhood; whichhe afterwards demolished, and with the materials erected thisedifice. This caftle ftands on the weft fide of the Coker, on amount, feemingly artificial, near the Darwent. The dimenfionsof the walls, which form nearly a fquare, are computed about fixhundred yards in compafs; they are flanked by feveral fquare towers.The entrance is on the eaft fide over a bridge. Over the outergate are five fhields of arms; four of them are faid to be thofe ofthe Moultons, Umfravilles, Lucys, and Percys. In this gate are
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CUMBERLAND. 47 are fome habitable rooms, wherein the auditor holds a courttwice every year. Within the walls are two courts: in the firft are fome fmallmodern tenements inhabited by a perfon who takes care of thecaftle. From this court through a gate, is the entrance intothe fecond. On each fide of this gate are two deep dungeons,each capable of holding fifty perfons ; they are vaulted at thetop, and have only a fmall opening in order to admit the pri-foners, who either defcended by a ladder, or were lowered downwith ropes. On the outfide of the gate, juft even with theground, are two narrow flits ; one on each fide, Hoping inwards.Down thefe were thrown the provifions allotted for the wretchedbeings confined there, who had no other light, or air, but whatwas admitted through thefe chinks. Within the fecond court flood the manfion, now in ruins.The kitchen, as it is called, makes a picturefque appearance; ithas one of thofe monftrous chimneys, fo common in old man-sions, which ferve t

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