[548] The murage of the town of Nottingham was assigned "to the repair of the outer bailey of the castle there" in 1288. _Patent Rolls_, Edward I., i., 308. [549] Chapter xlii. [550] D. B., i., 280. [551] "Ipse Baldwinus vicecomes tenet de Rege Ochementone, et ibi sedet castellum." D. B., i., 105b, 2. [552] The late Mr Worth thought the lower part of the keep was early Norman. He was perhaps misled by the round arched loops in the basement. But round arches are by no means conclusive evidence in themselves of Norman date, and the size of these windows, as well as the absence of buttresses, and the presence of pointed arches, are quite incompatible with the early Norman period. The whole architecture of the castle agrees with a 14th century date, to which the chapel undoubtedly belongs. [553] Eyton, _Antiquities of Shropshire_, vol. vii. [554] "Ibi fecit Rainaldus Castellum Luure." D. B., i., 253b. Rainald was an under-tenant of Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury. [555] This sketch is reproduced in Mr Parry-Jones' _Story of Oswestry Castle_. Leland says, "Extat turris in castro nomine Madoci." _Itin._, v., 38. [556] "In operatione palicii de Blancmuster 2_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._" XII., 124. Oswestry was known as Blancmoustier or Album Monasterium in Norman times. [557] _Abingdon Chronicle_ and _Osney Chronicle_, which, though both of the 13th century, were no doubt compiled from earlier sources. [558] _Osney Chronicle_, 1071. [559] See Ingram's _Memorials of Oxford_ for an account of the very interesting crypt of this church, p. 8. The battlement storey of the tower is comparatively late. [560] Mackenzie, _Castles of England_, i., 160. [561] D. B., p. 154. [562] Rymer's _Foedera_, vol. i. [563] "Terram castelli Pechefers tenuerunt Gerneburn et Hunding." D. B., i., 276a, 2. [564] There are similar nook-shafts to Henry II.'s keep at Scarborough, and to Castle Rising. Mr Hartshorne (_Arch. Journ._, v., 207) thought that there had been an earlier stone keep at Peak Castle, because some moulded stones are used in the walls, and because there is some herring-bone work in the basement. But this herring-bone work only occurs in a revetment wall to the rock in the cellar; and the moulded stones may be quite modern insertions for repairs, and may have come from the oratory in the N.E. angle, or from some of the ruined windows and doorways. The sums entered to this castle between the years 1172 and 1176 are less than half the cost of Scarborough keep, and do not appear adequate, though the keep was a small one. But there is some reason to think that the cost of castles was occasionally defrayed in part from sources not entered in the _Pipe Rolls_. [565] Rex E. tenuit Peneverdant. Ibi 2 carucatæ terræ et reddebant 10 denarios. Modo est ibi castellum.... Valent 3 libras. D. B., i., 270.