[682] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 65. The castle is not expressly named; but its inclusion in the grant appears from the sequel. [683] _Hundred Rolls_, vol. i. p. 309. [684] On 26th November, 1217, the King bids “the sheriff of Lincolnshire”--no name is mentioned--“cause Nicolaa de Haye to have a reasonable aid from her knights and free tenants in your bailiwick for the payment of debts incurred by her when she was besieged in Lincoln castle.” _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 344. [685] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 130. [686] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 356, 367, 367 b, &c. The exact date at which she recovered the castle does not appear; probably it was not very long before the date of the first of these entries, 17th March, 1218; for on 13th November, 1218, we find an order to the Treasury for payment to Earl William of what he spent “per visum et testimonium legalium hominum in reparacione castri Lincolniae tempore pacis,” _ib._ p. 383. If he had delivered the castle to its Dame immediately on receipt of the King’s order to do so, at the beginning of November, 1217, he would not have had much time for its repair _tempore pacis_, the peace having been made on 12th September. [687] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 200, 201. [688] Order, dated 23rd May, 1220, for payment to Falkes of the wages of three knights “qui sunt in servitio nostro in castro Lincolniae cum eodem Falkesio” from the octave of the Assumption in the King’s third year (22nd August, 1219) to the octave of Trinity in his fourth year (31st May, 1220). _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 419. [689] _Roy. Lett._, vol. i. p. 73. [690] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 86, 87. [691] _Hist. Ducs_, pp. 175, 176. [692] “Johannes Marescallus reddit compotum de £128 7_s._ pro fine suo et fine fratris sui Gilleberti de terra patris eorum. In operatione castri de Merleberga £26 13_s._ 4_d._ per breve Regis et per visum Yvonis de Neville. Et debet £100 33_s._ 8_d._” _Pipe Roll 22 Hen. II_ (1175–1176), p. 172. [693] The warden of Marlborough castle throughout John’s reign was Hugh de Neville; see _Pat. Rolls Joh._ and _Close Rolls_, vol. i., _passim_, the latter from p. 16 b (1205) onwards. John “de Turri” appears as its constable on the morrow of Magna Charta (_Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 214 b), no doubt as deputy for Hugh, who was at Runnimede with the king. It was Hugh who surrendered the place to Louis in 1216; _Hist. Ducs_, pp. 175, 176.