1173-4. In operatione turris et Castelli Chant. 24 6 0 " In operatione turris Cantuar. 5 11 7 1174-5. Et in warnisione ejusdem turris 5 8 0 The latter extract, which refers to the provisioning of the keep, seems to show that it was then finished. The sums put down to the castle, amounting to about £4000 of our money, are not sufficient to defray the cost of so fine a keep. But the entries in the _Pipe Rolls_ relate only to the Sheriff's accounts, and it is probable that the cost of the keep was largely paid out of the revenues of the archbishopric, which Henry seized into his own hands during the Becket quarrel. [335] The portion of the wall of Canterbury, which rests on an earthen bank, extends from Northgate to the Castle, and is roughly semicircular in plan. In the middle of it was St George's Gate, which was anciently called _Newingate_ (Gostling, p. 53) and may possibly have been Henry II.'s new gate. The part enclosing the Dungeon Hill is angular, and appeared to Mr Clark, as well as to Somner and Hasted, to have been brought out at this angle in order to enclose the hill. [336] _Arch. Journ._, 1856. [337] D. B., i., 2a, 1. [338] "Isdem rex tenet Alwinestone. Donnus tenuit. Tunc pro duabus hidis et dimidia. Modo pro duabus hidis, quia castellum sedet in una virgata." D. B., i., 2a, 1. [339] See below, under Windsor. [340] "In hac [insula] castellum habebat ornatissimum lapidum ædificio constructum, validissimo munimine firmatum." _Gesta Stephani_, R. S., p. 28. [341] Stone's _Official Guide to the Castle of Carisbrooke_, p. 39. [342] Mr W. H. Stevenson, in his edition of _Asser_, pp. 173, 174, shows that the name Carisbrooke cannot possibly be derived from Wihtgares-burh, as has been sometimes supposed, as the older forms prove it to have come from _brook_, not _burh_. The lines of the present castle banks, if produced, would not correspond with those of the Tilt-yard, which is proof that the Norman castle was not formed by cutting an older fortification in two. [343] Bower's _Scotochronicon_, v., xlii. Cited by Mr Neilson, _Notes and Queries_, viii., 321. See also Palgrave, _Documents and Records_, i., 103. [344] _Cal. of Close Rolls_, Edward II., iii., 161. [345] _Mon. Ang._, v., 12. "Castelli nostri de Acra." [346] As at Burton, Mexborough, Lilbourne, and Castle Colwyn. [347] Harrod's _Gleanings among the Castles and Convents of Norfolk_. See also _Arch. Journ._, xlvi., 441. [348] D. B., ii., 160b. [349] "Castellum de Estrighoiel fecit Willelmus comes, et ejus tempore reddebat 40 solidos, tantum de navibus in silvam euntibus." D. B., i., 162. Tanner has shown that while Chepstow was an alien priory of Cormeille, in Normandy, it is never spoken of by that name in the charters of Cormeille, but is always called Strigulia. _Notitia Monastica_, Monmouthshire. See also Marsh's _Annals of Chepstow Castle_.