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30 — E 621 — letter of Christmas Day, 1650). Authorities differ, it is true; for when the * Memorie of the Somervilles ' (p. 229) writes of Cromwell's having 'battered down the now outermost wall,' that seems to imply some such change, in the interval between the 1640 siege and this later one, as would have been effected by the razing of the Spur. But that rather vague allusion can scarcely be held to contradict the Christmas Day letter-writer just quoted, and we must suppose the Spur still exi...sted in 1650, very much as it was pictured in an 'old Dutch print, A.D. 1646,' that is reproduced in James Grant's ' Memorials of the Castle of Edinburgh' (Blackwood: 1850). It looks there, to be sure, more like a full moon than the * half-moon ' that Young Cambusnetben calls it (p. 229 of the 'Memorie'); but its identity is conclusively enough estab- lished by its being indeed ' within sixty paces,' as the same writer says, of the then endmost houses of the city itself. § Mercurius PolUicus^ No.
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