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a fortress in which loyal subjects were incarcerated, before being led out to execution as sheep to the slaughter by covenanting rebels"
"On the northwestern angle of the quadrangular ruins where the sea tower stood may be seen a circular dungeon twenty five feet in depth in which imagination has confined the martyrs Hamilton and Wishart and where it is not improbable prisoners of inferior rank were formerly secured. It passes through a seam of coal and increases as it descends" Lyons Hist. [History] of St Andrews vol. [volume] ll [2] p/ [page] 166 & 177

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Continuation of Description of castle, main entry Page 9

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