Wanderings And Excursions in South Wales With the Scenery of the River Wye Wit
Wanderings And Excursions in South Wales With the Scenery of the River Wye Wit
Thomas Roscoe
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The exterior wall * Henry Marten was the son of Sir Henry Marten, a celebrated judge in the time of James I. He is described as a man of great intelligence and exquisite wit, but of licentious manners. He is said to have died as he lived, " with the fierce spirit of a republican. " He wrote his own epitaph in the form of an acrostic, which is placed over his grave, in the north transept of the church, containing sentiments better suited to a sceptic than a Puritan preacher, as he at one time wa...s. CHEPSTOW CASTLE. 159 is much more ancient than the one facing the court, and the interior appears to have contained commodious apartments, with spacious fireplaces, &c. From this tower a line of communication, or terraced walk, runs inside the outer wall along the whole building, ascend- ing by steps from tower to tower. In the old Norman keep this gallery used in like manner to run under arches round the whole inside. This being a thirteenth- century castle, where the defence consisted of numerous towers (it is said to have contained sixteen), the line of communication was altered accordingly.
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