They haue a tye pit, not so much satisfying vse,
as relieuing necessitie. A little without the Castle, there is a bad
seat in a craggy place, called S. Michaels Chaire, some what
daungerous, for accesse, and therefore holy for the aduenture.
Vntill Richard the firsts raigne, the mount seemeth to haue serued
onely for religion, and (during his imprisonment) to haue bene first
fortified by Henry de la Pomeray, who surprized it, and expulsed
the Monks: howbeit soone after, when hee became ascertained of
his Soueraignes enlargement, the very feare of ensuing harme wrought
in him a present effect of the vttermost that any harme could bring,
namely, his death: whereon, the olde cell and new fort, was
surrendred to the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Kings behalfe.
Thus Houeden reporteth. But the descendents from this Pomeray,
alias, Pomeroy, make a somewhat different relation of this accident:
for they affirme, that a Sergeant at armes of the Kings, came to
their auncestour, at his Castle of Bery Pomeroy, in Deuon,
receyued kind entertaynment for certaine dayes together, and at
his departure, was gratified with a liberall reward: in
counter-change whereof, he then, and no sooner, reuealing his
long concealed errand, flatly arresteth his hoaste, to make his
immediate appearance before the King, for answering a capitall crime.
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