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The very numerous documents to which he has had recourse were aided by
measurements, and a visit to the spot, where he found that a tolerable
accurate idea might be formed of the situation and extent of the walls
and towers, together with the main entrance, and the "great Eagle
Tower."
The accompanying view is taken from a hill above the valley or trench,
where, it is said, the main army of the besiegers was encamped. It is
called in the neighbourhood "Cromwell's Trench," and the engraving may
serve to convey some idea of that magnificent and princely dwelling,
which, as the old ballad expresses it, would hold "two kinges, their
traines and all." Henry the Seventh, two years after his visit to
Lathom, restored his palace at Richmond, the same authority tells us,
"like Lathom Hall in fashion." The gate-house in the engraving is drawn
from the description of a carving of the Stanley legend in Manchester
Collegiate Church, executed in the time of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely.
From this it appears to have had two octagonal turrets on each side of
an obtusely-pointed or circular archway with battlements, machicolated
and pierced for cannon.
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