To the tune of "The Lady's Fall."'
To some copies are annexed eight more modern stanzas, entitled,
'The Duchess' and Cook's Lamentation.'"
Dr Whitaker says, "The remains of Radcliffe Tower prove it to have been
a manor-house of the first rank. It has been quadrangular; but two sides
only remain." A licence to kernel and embattle shows the date of its
erection, or rather rebuilding, to be in the fourth year of Henry IV.,
by James Radcliffe, who, we find by the pedigree, was the eldest son of
William Radcliffe. He married Joan, daughter to Sir John Tempest of
Bracewell, in the county of York.
"The noble old hall is forty-three feet two inches in length, and in one
part twenty-six feet, in another twenty-eight feet in width. The two
massy principals which support the roof are the most curious specimens
of ancient wood-work I have ever seen. The broadest piece of timber is
two feet seven inches by ten inches. A wall-plate on the outside of one
beam, from end to end, measures two feet by ten inches. The walls are
finished at the square with a moulded cornice of oak.
"At the bottom of the room is a door opening into one of the towers, the
lower part of which only remains, of massy grout-work, and with three
arches, each furnished with a funnel or aperture like a chimney.
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