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Elaborate carvings in a small
cell, by captives held here by the future Richard III in 1480,
vividly demonstrate that Carlisle Castle was also a prison. Mary
Queen of Scots was confined here after her flight from Scotland in
1568: but in 1596 the Border reiver Kinmont Willie Armstrong
managed a daring night escape, to the fury of his captors.
Borrowed from Carlisle
Castle English Heritage website |
