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Worcejler, Cambridge , with Huntington Forty, Kent)Gloucefier, Somerfet , with Devon, and Northampton,one with another, found alfo Forty a-piece. And be-caufe divers of thefe Workmen, for Gain and Advantage,clandeftinely left Whtdfor to the Hindrance of the Work,all Perfons were forbid to employ or retain them underForfeiture of all they had, and likewifc to arreft thofethat withdrew themfelves from the Work, and committhem to Newgate. A. 3<T. Ed. III. many of them beingfwept away by the Peftilence, the like Writs weredire&ed to other Sheriffs, under a Hundred Pound Pe-nalty, to fend able Men 5 whereupon the Counties ofYork, lent Sixty, Derby Twenty Four, Salop Sixty, Here-ford Fifty, Nottingham Twenty Four, Lancajier TwentyFour, and Devon Sixty. A. 37. Ed. III. The nobleEdifice was ready for Glazing, and of Twenty Four ofthat Occupation imprefs’d for the King’s Sendee,Twelve were to be employed at Windfor. In this Yearand the next a great Proficiency was made, and vaftQuantities of Stone were amafled, dug out of theQuarries of Wellesfor, Newel, and Carby, and other Places.From the 3 7 th to the 43d,the Building of the Caflle wasdiligently purfued. We find no Addition to this auguftPile till his 48th Year, and after that Time nothingmore during his Reign, fo that it is fuppofed this Fa-mous Piece for Magnificence and Strength was thenchiefly finifhed, viz. the Great Hall of St. Georgr, theLodgings on the Eaft and South fide of the Upper Ward,the Keep or Tower in the Middle Ward, the Chapel ofSt. George, the Houfes for the Cuflos and the Canons inthe Lower Ward, with the whole Circumference of theWalls, their leveral Towers and Gates, as in the pre-fentPoflure they remain.

In fucceeding Times King Hen. VII. added that {late-ly Fabrick adjoining to the King’s Lodgings, in theUp Per Ward. King Hen. VIII. re-edified the great Gateat the Entrance into the Lower Ward. King Edw. VI.began, and Queen Mary perfected the Conveying the^ater, from Blacktnore-Parl (_ in Wingfield Parifh, into aFountain of curious Workmanfhip erefled in the Mid-dle Ward, which fupplied all the Caflle. Queen Elizar-beth made a Terrace Work on the North fide of the

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