St Mawes Castle, completed and garrisoned in 1543, is architecturally the most ornate of all the Device Forts, its three circular bastions arranged in a trefoil pattern decorated with Tudor heraldic shields. Together with Pendennis on the opposite headland it controlled the entrance to the Carrick Roads — the largest deep-water anchorage in the West Country and a potential base for an invasion fleet.
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Captain, gunners, and garrison; heavy artillery commanding the Fal entrance
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