• Gates, drawbridges, and portculli. The portcullis was a thick and heavy but movable grating that was lowered to block an entrance. They were used in combination with gates and drawbridges to hinder direct assaults against the castle’s main entrances; • All the winches and other machinery required to raise and lower or open and close the gates, drawbridges, and portculli.

Russian River flows through a country of hill ridges, which in many places are dignifiable with the appellation of mountains.

It is good to make prouiſion, for peraduenture wee ſhall lacke victuals and wee lie in campe on Blacke Heath long.

And my povert' no wight nor can nor may Make comparison, it is no nay.