EXPLANATION OF THE REFERENCES IN THE <g>Plan</g>.--1. The Entrance Gate, loading into, 2, the Fountain Court; 3, 3. Buildings partly surrounding this Court, and exhibiting marks of modern alterations; 4. The Church; 5. The Sacristy; 6. The Confessional; 7. The Chapter-House; 8. The Passage leading to the Inner Court; 9. The Parlour; 10. The Refectory; 11. The Buttery; 12. The Kitchen; 14. The Raised Terrace, or Floor of the Cloister, supposed to have surrounded the Inner Court (13); 15. A Ruined Building, supposed to have been the Abbot’s Lodgings. ] AUTHORITIES:--The Monasticon.--Domesday Book.--Bullar’s Netley Abbey.--Keates’ Elegy on Netley Abbey.--Giraldus Cambrensis, and the Collections of Monkish Stories.--Leland’s Itinerary and Collectanea.--Matthew Paris.--Robert of Gloucester.--The Early Romances, &c. [Illustration] APPENDIX. <g>ARUNDEL CASTLE.</g>--<g>King Alfred’s Will.</g>--The portion from which the text is a translation is thus given in ASSER. DE ÆLFREDI REB. GESTIS, fol. 23: “Athelmo, _vero fratris mei filio_, do villā de Edingburn et de Cumptune et de ERUNDELE, et de Bedingn et de Dinghā, et de Burnham, et de Thumesfelde, et de Aschōgum.”--“Forty-nine Castles are enumerated in Domesday Book; that of Arundel only as existing in the time of Edward the Confessor. Many single towers were built during the Heptarchy and by King Alfred. The Castle of Arundel dates perhaps its true origin from that monarch.”--Dallaway. “Fama verò _tota est_ ex castro quod Saxonico imperio floruit; et statim ab ingressu Normanorum. Rogerum de Montgomericum restaurasse legimus, qui inde Arundeliæ Comes dictus.”--Camden. <g>Harold, Earl of Sussex</g>, A.D. 1053.--Ingulph, relating the death of Earl Godwyn at the royal table, adds “Comitatusque Westsaxoniæ Haroldo filio suo datus est”--fol. 510, 540. Hardyng, page 229, after his manner relates the same in two stanzas:--“And as Kynge Edwarde,” &c.