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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2011
Castle Rushen is one of the most interesting castles in the British Isles, both because of its remarkable state of preservation and by reason of its position as one of the chief seats of authority in the island from the time of its erection down to and including the present day.
page 2 note 1 The bottom few feet of the keep are everywhere obscured by a modern batter.
page 3 note 1 Op. cit., p. 34.
page 4 note 1 Official Guide, H.M.S.O.,1946Google Scholar.
page 4 note 2 Royal Comm. Anc. Mons. Scotland, Orkney and Shetland (1946), pp. 235–9Google Scholar, andOrkneyinga Saga (Taylor, (1938), p. 275)Google Scholar.
page 6 note 1 Leask, , Irish Castles, 1941, p. 32Google Scholar.
page 10 note 1 The windows in style IV work are just like those of style III, but are not variegated.
page 13 note 1 Such a heightening of earlier work was carried out atCastle, Kidwelly, v. Archaeologia, lxxxiii, 101Google Scholar.
page 15 note 1 For this information the writer is indebted to Mr. Philip Caine.
page 16 note 1 Official Guide to the Ancient Monuments of the Isles of Scilly, 1949, pp. 20–1Google Scholar.
page 20 note 1 For this and for information concerning eighteenth-century documents the writer is indebted to Mr. David Craine.
page 20 note 2 Formerly shown to visitors as the stair of the kings of Man!
page 21 note 1 The present writer has not seen the date. The bell is difficult of access, but it certainly seems to have decoration suggestive of 1629 rather than 1729.
page 24 note 1 See especiallyJourn. Brit. Arch. Ass., 3rd Ser., iv, 39–54Google Scholar.
page 25 note 1 Incorrectly shown on the plan as entirely of the seventeenth century.