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[5] "The Conqueror's Footsteps in Domesday." _English Historical
Review_, vol. xiii., p. 17.
[6] _Sax. Chron._, vol. i., p. 339.
[7] Orderic Vitalis, _History of England and Normandy_, book iv., chap. i.
[8] _Norman Conquest_ (Freeman), vol. v., Appendix N., "Castles and
Destruction in the Towns."
[9] _Introduction to Domesday Book_ (Ellis), vol. i., pp. 116-122.
[10] _Sax. Chron._, vol. i., p. 351.
[11] The _Custumale Roffense_ (Thorpe), p. 128; the _Registrant
Roffense_ (Thorpe), p. 481.
[12] "Conventios inter Gundulfum Episcopum et Eadmerum Anhoende
Burgensem Lundoniae. Dum idem Gundulfus ex praecepto Regis Wilhelm magni
_praesset operi magnae turris Lundoniae_ et hospitatus fuisset apud ipsum
Eadmerum," etc., from the _Registrum Roffense_ (Thorpe), p. 32.
[13] The present entrances on the north face of the keep are entirely
modern.
[14] _Sax. Chron._, vol. i., p. 363.
[15] The "turris," or keep, of Colchester is referred to in a charter of
Henry I. in 1101, which recites that the King's father and brother had
previously held the castle.
[16] _Anglia Sacra_, vol. i., p. 338.
[17] Stow's _Survey of London_, "Of Towers and Castles."
[18] _Norman Conquest_ (Freeman), vol. iii., Appendix, note PP.
[19] William of Malmesbury's _English Chronicle_, book v.; and _Sax.
Chron._, vol. i., p. 365.
[20] _Orderic Vitalis_, book x., chapter xvii.; and _William of
Malmesbury_, book v., chapter i.
[21] _Norman Conquest_ (Freeman), vol. ii., ch. viii., pp. 189, 190,
"The vengeance of Duke William on the men of Alencon."
[22] _Geoffrey de Mandeville_ (J. H. Round), p. 89 and p. 334.
[23] The kitchens of the period were usually situated at no great
distance from the Hall, and were in general of very slight construction;
frequently they were only wooden-framed buildings, with walls of wattle
and daub, and thatched roofs, hence the need for the continual repairs
that figure so numerously in the early records.
[24] _Mediaeval Military Architecture_ (G. T. Clark), vol. ii., p. 257.
[25] "Norwich Castle" (A. Hartshorne, F.S.A.), _The Archaeological
Journal_, vol. xlvi., pp. 264, 265.
[26] Stubbs's _Introductions to the Rolls Series_, edited by Hassall, p.
221.
[27] The total cost of erecting Chateau Gaillard des Andelys amounted to
L42,361 14s. 4d., according to the _Roll of the Norman Exchequer_ for
1198 (edited by T. Stapleton; vol. ii., pp. 309, 310 _et seq._), a sum
which compares very well with the equally great outlay upon the works at
London in 1191.
[28] _Archaeologia_, vol. lx., p. 239.
[29] Roger of Wendover's _Chronicle_ (Bohn's edition), vol. ii., p. 100,
and Roger de Hoveden's _Annals_, _ibid._, vol. ii., p. 137, sub. 1190
ad.
[30] _Manuel d'Archaeologie Francaise_ (Enlart), vol. ii., section xi.,
pp. 497-500.
[31] "The Norman Origin of Cambridge Castle," W. H. St. John Hope,
_Cambridge Antiquarian Society's Communications_, vol. xi., p. 340.
[32] _Exchequer Accounts Roll_, 3/15, 5 Edward I.
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