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 the garden and the other into the fold-yard, the latter was a new one laid into the wall, and fastened with pins and screws like that in the parlour, except that he thinks the chamber window was not plated in the inside with iron; there were two iron bars to it, it was a two-light window, so was the parlour window, there was one bar to each light, which would prevent any one getting into the chamber at that window, there being very little more than four inches between the wood work of the window and the bar, there was an inside shutter to that window; the other window which looks backwards is a smaller window of new wood of the same strength with the other, and fastened in the wall in like manner it is a small single light window with one iron bar, and there were not more than four inches between the wood and the bar; there were shutters to each of those windows made of two inch thick oak, with bars to each, fastened at one end with a pin, and let at the other end into a holdfast; there were three windows in the garret, one looking into the fold-yard, one into the garden, and one in the gable end; these were all old windows, of thick strong oak each, with oak shutters, having each three bolts—no glass in the garret windows, the bolts were of iron about an inch thick.

Mr. Chirm had procured a ladder, which was reared against the front of the house; Chillingworth first went up it; Chirm followed him; the doors leading to the parlour could not be wrenched open, the doors were afterwards opened and they went in; there were three doors in the passage, through which they must go to get into the parlour; the first a strong oak door, which opened upon or towards them on going in, there were seven bolts on it, they were in the inside towards the parlour, five of them fastened on the right as he stood facing the door, and two of them on the left, they all passed into the door-case, each through an iron case, near the top of the door was a strong iron bar at least half an inch thick, it went all across or along the door, it was a very strong door of old dark oak, he did not observe any lock on it; the second door opened from them as they went in, that was a strong double-inch door, with a strong door-case apparently new, that door was fastened by four bars of solid oak, he thinks about four inches square, let into the wall for about six inches at one end, and dropped into an iron hasp or holdfast at the