The accompanying <g>ground-plan</g> will enable the reader to trace the various apartments of the <g>Castle</g> in the same order in which they are described, and to follow with more interest the details of the <g>Siege</g>, upon which we are now to enter. [Illustration: 1 Keep, or Yellow Tower. 2 Chambers destroyed in the Siege. 3 Great Hall. 4 Parlour, or small Dining-Room. 5 Kitchen. 6 Gateway and Staircase. 7 Galleries and State-Rooms. 8 Chapel. 9 Gateway leading to the Bowling-Green. 10 Spot formerly crossed by a bridge. 11 Breach made during the Siege. 12 On the upper story is King <g>Charles’</g> window. 13 Moat surrounding the <g>Keep</g>. ] “Our Donjon-tower is stout and tall, Each rampart mann’d and steady; And loyal hearts, from every wall, Shout--‘_Roundheads!_ we are ready!’ Then here’s a health to <g>Charles</g> our King; And eke to noble <g>Worcester</g>! To each, to-morrow’s fight shall bring New loyalty and lustre! Then hoist the Royal Standard high! And crown our <g>Chief</g> with laurels! And where’s the man that would not die In combating for <g>Charles</g>?” &c. &c. We have next to take a brief survey of that portion of the Revolutionary movements, with which the history of <g>Raglan</g> and its loyal garrison are so closely associated. “The Parliament had now,” says Lord Clarendon, “such footing in Pembrokeshire, that many of the principal gentlemen had declared for them; and the harbour of Milford Haven gave their fleet opportunity to give them all supplies and relief.” This being the state of those parts, <g>The Lord Herbert</g>, eldest son of the Marquess of Worcester, not only offered but desired to receive that command, and engaged himself “not only to secure it from the opposition and malignity of the other party; but before the spring to raise such a strength of horse and foot, and to provide such an equipage to march with, that might reduce Gloucester, and then be added to the King’s army when he should be ready to take the field. And all this so much at his own charge, for his father, the Marquess, who was well able, would furnish the money--as was pretended upon the King’s promise to repay him when he should be restored to his own--that he would receive no part of the King’s revenue, or of such money as his Majesty could be able to draw for the supply of his own more immediate occasions.” This was a very great offer, and such as no man else could so reasonably make: for “the Marquess of Worcester was generally reputed the greatest mony’d man in the kingdom; and probably might not think it an unthrifty thing rather to disburse it for the King--who might be able to repay it--than to have it taken from him by the other party; which would be hardly questioned if they prevailed.”[242]