Henry of Huntingdon says that William Baynard was deprived of his estate in 1110. It was then, I suppose, that it passed to the Clares. The Fitzwalters, who held it after Baynard, belonged to the great family of the Clares.[153] Baynard's Castle was probably dismantled under John when the king quarrelled with Fitzwalter. In 1275 a patent was granted R. Fitzwalter to alienate Castle Baynard near the city walls, with stone wall, void areas, ditches, and even the tower of Fish Street Hill. Taking this and the St. Paul's document together, the precinct seems to have included the ground between the boundary of St. Paul's (along Carter Lane) and the river and from the city wall to Old Fish Street. It must have been an important castle, not a mere tower. Henry II. is made by Fantosme to ask how "mes baruns de Lundres ma cité" fared in the troubles of that time, and is told that Gilbert de Munfichet had strengthened his "castle," and that the Clares were leagued with him. This Montfichet's Castle is mentioned by FitzStephen, and Stow says that it was close to Castle Baynard towards the west, and on the river; but a document given by Dugdale speaks of Munfichet Castle with its ditch as close to Ludgate (ii. 384).[154] Tradition has also assigned the site of a Saxon palace close to the east end of St. Alban's, Wood Street. It was said that King Athelstane had his house here, which, having a door into Adel Street, "gave name to this street, which in ancient evidences is written King Adel Street."[155] Stow just refers to the story, but says any evidence had been destroyed, and he was evidently disgusted at a then recent "improvement." Some accounts of 23 Henry VIII., given in the _Calendar of St. Paul's Documents_, refer to the "clensying of certyn old ruinouse houses in Aldermanbury, sometime the palace of Saincte Æthelbert Kyng ... and making of five new tenements." It is curious that there is an Adle Hill, also in Castle Baynard Ward. The records of St. Alban's show that Abbot Paul (from 1077) obtained by exchange with the Abbot of Westminster what was said had been the chapel of Offa's palace near the church of St. Alban's, Wood Street. This evidently refers to the same site abutting on St. Alban's, Wood Street.[156] It has been said that Gutter Lane is named from the residence of Guthrum. I find it called Godron Lane in early documents, and the tradition may possibly be true (see p. 154). Tower Royal was a royal residence after the Conquest; Stow says Stephen lodged there.[157] Froissart, writing of the Wat Tyler's rebellion, tells how the king's mother fled to "the Royal called the Queen's Wardrobe."