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An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Guy's Cliff, Stoneleigh Abbey, the Beauchamp Chapel, and Other Places
An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle Kenilworth Castle Guy's Cliff Stoneleigh Abbey the Beauchamp Chapel and Other Places Author:Smith Title: An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Guy's Cliff, Stoneleigh Abbey, the Beauchamp Chapel, and Other Places of Interest in the Neighborhood General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: H.T. Cooke Subjects: Castles Warwickshire Warwickshire (England) ... more » Architecture / History / Medieval History / Europe / Great Britain Juvenile Nonfiction / Architecture Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Medieval Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EXTERIOR AND GROUNDS. The curtain between Caesar's Tower and the gateway is intersected by laundries, brewing kitchens, and other domestic offices. C/ESAR'S TOWER. Clesab's Tower, which, w not shown to visitors, has beneath it a dark and damp dungeon, which is entered from the inner court, by descending a long flight of stone steps; here, at various times, in the earlier periods of its history, have prisoners been confined, and, from stanchion holes in the wall, it is evident they were restrained far from the small :loop hole which alone gave light (if light it may be called -- where the owl at noon day would never be annoyed by the sun's cheering beams) and ventilation to the place. The following inscription, copied from the walls, records the incarceration of a royalist soldier during the civil wars, the last person known to have been confined here : -- Ma/TER : lohN : SMyTH : GvNER : TO : HIS : MAIESTyE : HIghNES : WAS : A PRISNER IN THIS PlACE : AND : Iav : HERE : /1OM 1642 TEll th WllllAM SldlaTE ROT This SAME ANd if My Pin HAd Bin Beter /or His sakE I wovld Have MENdEd EVERRi leTTER. Drawings of cross bows and crucifixes, with inscriptions...« less