ARUNDEL (Fig. 8).--"The castrum of Arundel," says Domesday Book, "paid 40_s._ in King Edward's time from a certain mill, and 20_s._ from three boardlands (or feorm-lands), and 2_s._ from one pasture. Now, between the town feorm and the water-gate and the ships' dues, it pays 12_l._"[251] _Castrum_ in Domesday nearly always means a castle; yet the description here given is certainly that of a town and not of a castle. We must therefore regard it as an instance of the fluctuating meaning which both _castrum_ and _castellum_ had in the 11th century.[252] Arundel is one of the towns mentioned in the "Burghal Hidage."[253] But even accepting that the description in Domesday refers to the town, we can have very little doubt that the original earthen castle was reared by Roger de Montgomeri, to whom William I. gave the Rapes of Arundel and Chichester, and whom he afterwards made Earl of Shrewsbury.[254] Roger had contributed sixty ships to William's fleet, and both he and his sons were highly favoured and trusted by William, until the sons forfeited that confidence. We shall see afterwards that their names are connected with several important castles of the early Norman settlement. We shall see also that the Rapes into which Sussex was divided--Chichester, Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, Pevensey, and Hastings--were all furnished with Norman castles, each with the characteristic motte, except Pevensey, which had a stone keep. Each of these castles, at the time of the Survey, defended a port by which direct access could be had to Normandy. It was to protect his base that William fortified these important estuaries, and committed them to the keeping of some of the most prominent of the Norman leaders.