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HISTORY OF ENGINEERING

Book I.

without waules: then to Waumgate three toweres, and thence to Fishergate stopped up,since the communes burned it yn the time of King Henry VII . Thence to the ripe ofFosse have three towres, and in the three a postern, and thence over Fosse by a bridge,

Fig. 401. INSIDE OP THE CITY WALLS, YOKK.

to the Castelle. The west part of the cite is thus ynclosed; first a turrit and soe thewaule, runneth over the side of the dungeon of the castelle on the west side of Ouse, rightagainst the Castelle on the east ripe. The plotte of this castelle is now called OuldBaile, and the area andditches of it doe mani-festly appeare. Betwixtthe beginnyng of the firstparte of this west waullc,and Micklegate, be ninetowres, and betwixt it andthe ripe agayne of Ouse,be eleven towres; and atthis eleven towres be apostern-gate, and the towreof it is right agayne theest towre, to draw overthe Chain on Ouse betwixtthem.”

The four gates or bars,by which this city is entered,are admirable examples ofthose castellated defencesof which there are sometraces in all our walledtowns.

Bootham Bar stands onthe north-west side, on theway to Durham, Newcastle,and Edinburgh . On thefront are two shields withthe city arms, and anothermuch defaced. This barsuffered considerably in thetime of Charles I.

Fig. 402. BOOTHAM BAR.

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