... has melted his four gold and silver cups into coin, and mortgaged his best manors to Aaron of Lincoln for £1,000 for five years (an eighth of what it is said that the enemy Castle at Harlech even cost, that was finished four years ago) and we have 1,100 men and 100 horses and the draft-beasts and two "machines" and that's it, and they all must go home in three months and it's mid-May. We face, first of all, a wide moat so that we cannot get right up to the outer curtain walls of the castle even though these are quite low-built. We also face a defended dock area with a couple of turrets, and a high-level walkway on which we can probably see archers (who can shelter) who can "see" our commander and could try to knock him down. We have our "Long-Bows". These are made of the ...

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