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daylight. At sunrise, two men and a woman, being in the tower, one of the men rising in his shirt and going to the tower head and seeing nothing stir about he called to the wench that lay in the tower and bade her rise and open the tower door and call up them that lay beneath. She so doing and opening the iron door and a wood door without it, our men within the barmekin brake a little too soon to the door and the wench perceiving them, leaped back into the tower and had almost got the wood door shut but one of our men got hold it that she could not get it closed. So the skirmish arose and we scaled the barmekin and broke open the wood door and she being troubled with the wood door left the iron door open and so we entered and won the
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overlain by a later stone castle, lies on the east of a promontory about 600 metres (2,000 ft) long and 400 metres (1,300 ft) wide, which thrusts northwards into an area of largely-unreclaimed moss. The tower, which was once a strong castle, incorporates some 15th-century work. Not much
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We came there about half an hour before daybreak and the greater part of us lay close without the barmekin but about a dozen of the men got over the barmekin wall and stole close into the house within the barmekin (enclosure wall) and took the wenches there and kept them secure in the house till
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predecessor of the stone tower. To the south of the tower, in the centre of a level meadow which was probably the garden, was an artificially-looking, ditched earthen mound, some 9 feet (2.7 m) high and 36 feet (11 m) to 40 feet (12 m) across the base.
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