Ascending the hill from West Denton, the fosse of the Murus is very distinctly seen.
The Murus usually forms the northern wall of the station, or comes up to the northern cheek of its eastern and western gates, while the Vallum protects its southern rampart, or comes up to the lower side of its doorways.
The most striking feature in the plan, both of the Murus and the Vallum, is the determinate manner in which they pursue their straight-forward course.
The fosse and the foundation of the Murus are seen crossing the hill on the northern side of the summit: the Vallum, which is indistinctly marked, probably took a corresponding position on the southern side.
At Cock-mount-hill, about a quarter of a mile forward, the Murus is four or five feet high.
The southern corners are rounded off, but the side walls of the station, in joining the Murus on the north, seem to preserve their rectilinear course.
I have met with one case, in 1328, of aggravated false-witness, condemned to the murus strictissimus, with chains on both hands and feet.
The Mongols call it Murus osu, and in books this is sometimes changed to Murui osu, 'Tortuous river.
Much less desirable was the lot of the penitent consigned to murus strictus.
It is on the space comprised between these two points that a retrenchment was raised which is called in the "Commentaries" murus fossaque.
The murus strictus consisted in the deepest dungeon, with single or double fetters, and "the bread and water of affliction"; but the severity of the prison regime varied very much.
The murus largus, especially for a rich prisoner, amounted to a fairly mild imprisonment, but the mortality among those confined in the murus strictus became so high that Clement V.
Beyond these minor penalties came the severer ones of imprisonment for a period of time, perpetual imprisonment and imprisonment of various degrees of severity (murus largus, murus strictus vel strictissimus).
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