[386] See Professor Baldwin Brown's paper in the _Journal of the Institute of British Architects_, Third Series, ii., 488, and Mr Micklethwaite's in _Arch. Journ._, liii., 338; also Professor Baldwin Brown's remarks on Corfe Castle in _The Arts in Early England_, ii., 71. [387] There are other instances in which the chapel is the oldest piece of mason-work about the castle, as, for example, at Pontefract. [388] Cited in Hutchins' _Dorset_, i., 488, from the _Close Rolls_. [389] _Close Rolls_, i., 178b. [390] Hutchins' _Dorset_, i., 488. [391] Castrum Doveram, studio atque sumptu suo communitum. P. 108. Eadmer makes Harold promise to William "Castellum Dofris cum puteo aquæ ad opus meum te _facturum_." _Hist. Novorum_, i., d. The castle is not mentioned in Domesday Book. [392] _Norman Conquest_, iii., 217. [393] In 1580 an earthquake threw down a portion of the cliff on which the castle stands, and part of the walls. Statham's _History of Dover_, p. 287. [394] "Wendon him tha up to thære burge-weard, and ofslogen ægther ge withinnan ge withutan, ma thanne 20 manna." Another MS. adds "tha burh-menn ofslogen 19 men on othre healfe, and ma gewundode, and Eustatius atbærst mid feawum mannum." [395] See _ante_, pp. 17-19. [396] His description is worth quoting: Est ibi mons altus, strictum mare, litus opacum, Hinc hostes citius Anglica regna petunt; Sed castrum Doveræ, pendens a vertice montis, Hostes rejiciens, littora tuta facit. Clavibus acceptis, rex intrans moenia castri Præcepit Angligenis evacuare domos; Hos introduxit per quos sibi regna subegit, Unumquemque suum misit ad hospitium. "Carmen de Bello Hastingensi," in _Monumenta Britannica_, p. 603. [397] William's description is also of great interest: "Deinde dux contendit Doueram, ubi multus populus congregatus erat, pro inexpugnabile, ut sibi videtur, munitione; quia id castellum situm est in rupe mari contigua, quæ naturaliter acuta undique ad hoc ferramentis elaborate incisa, in speciem muri directissima altitudine, quantum sagittæ jactus permetiri potest, consurgit, quo in latere unda marina alluitur." P. 140. [398] The following entries in the _Pipe Rolls_ refer to this:--