In a few minutes the Lord Ruthven, with his brave followers, entered the inner ballium gate.
At the termination of this bridge, upon the upper ballium, are the remains of two circular towers, 14 feet in diameter, which are supposed to have flanked the portal of the ballium wall.
The area of the upper ballium is level and comparatively high, and forms an irregular circle on the summit of the hill, surrounded by an iron railing.
The lieutenant, without further speech, led the way across the Tower Green to the southwestern angle of the inner ballium where his own lodgings adjoined the Bell Tower.
This particular one was contrived in the thickness of the balliumwall which led from Beauchamp Tower to Develin Tower.
I have found that between the outer wall of the Tower and the chamber there is a passage communicating with the top of the ballium wall to the west.
After these maternal cares, Marjory sat and listened to the proceedings in the ballium of the Castle.
The ballium was empty; the retainers of her husband had been marched off before the forces of the king; and any domestics that were left had fled to the woods in terror.
A rude church or chapel was also within this court, holding a communication with the keep or principal part of the castle by means of a passage in the third wall, which divided the ballium from the inner court.
It was therefore, though in reality situated within the ballium or outer court, nearer by many hundred yards to the dwelling of the baron than to the castle walls, its granaries, towers, etc.
The keep and inner balliumwas still their own as a place of retreat, however short a period it might remain so.
Within the castle wall was the outer ballium or court, containing some small, low-roofed dwellings, the residence of many feudal retainers of the baron.
When they returned to their posts he proceeded along the ridge of the battlements, and dropping upon the ballium wall, proceeded with the utmost caution to the edge of the ramparts.
It must be borne in mind that the Tower is surrounded by a double line of defences, and that the ballium wall and its fortifications are much loftier than the outer ramparts.
Hastily descending the stairs, on gaining the postern she descried him hurrying along the road between the ballium wall and the external line of fortifications, and instantly decided on following him.
The cell in which he was thrown was part of a series of such dreadful receptacles, contrived in the thickness of the ballium wall, and extending from the Beauchamp Tower to the Devilin Tower.
In front of the Jewel House stood a large decayed hall, forming part of the palace ; opposite which was a court, planted with trees, and protected by the ballium wall.
Traversing the green, some hundred and forty feet brings us to the Beauchamp, or Cobham Tower, connected with the Bell Tower by means of a footway on the top of the ballium wall.
The inner ward or ballium was defended by thirteen towers, connected by an embattled stone wall about forty feet, high and twelve feet thick, on the summit of which was a footway for the guard.
It was enclosed on the left by a further range of buildings, termed the Queen's Lodgings, and on the right by the inner ballium wall.
Here he was concealed from view, and protected by the roofs of a range of habitations from the guns on the ballium wall.
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