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CAERNARVON CASTLE. 255 stones from the free quarry to the Castle, in one of the kmg's shijDs, 12 tons per tide, taking per ton per tide l^d.; and for one cart and three horses, taking 40 cart-loads of stone from the quarry at the end of the town to within the Castle at l^d. per cart-load. This and the following document are moreover curious for giving the names of all the workmen during each successive week, from which it appears that two-thirds of their number were Englishmen. The second document of the reign of Edward 11. is pre- served amongst those in the custody of the Queen's Remembrancer. It relates to the outlay made in the 13th year, and runs much the same in its general character as the last, showing a disbursement during the whole year of 258/. 7s. 9d. A few extracts from this will suitably follow those just adduced. The most remarkable entries on this and the previous Roll occur amongst the particulars of the smith's bill. We have now charges for a great cable, called a " Hauceour," weighing- six stone, bought from Aman ap Jevan for the great engine of the works, called wyndys, at 2.9. a stone — 12s ; also, 16 lbs. of grease for it, 20d. ; wedges and staples of iron for the same, one great bar for the windows in the Castle ; 30 gross of spikes for the great bridge of the town of Caernarvon ; 3 bars beyond the gate of the nevv hall of the Castle,^ which is conclusive as to the erection of this portion of the build- ing during the reign of the second Edward ; 2 hooks of iron for the windows of the residence of the King's Chamberlain ; and lastly, the items of Hova, the blacksmith, for working 2 gross of iron somers for a certain springhald, and 12 pikes of iron for the defence of the head of the image of the king, lest the birds should sit upon it, made out of 1 3 pieces of the king's iron, 2.^. 6d.^ This last memorandum, therefore, shows that the royal effigy over the grand gateway of entrance was placed there the last week of Api-il, in the 1 3tli year of Edward II. (1320.) All this looks very like drawing towards a completion of the Castle, though sundry expenses would still remain to be brought forward in the next year's accounts. Amongst those 5 The roofing for it was removed from Llewellyn's Hall at Conway. •' " pro defensione capitis ymaginis Regis ne aves supersedeaiit."