[158]Gibson, in his edition of _The Chronicle_—in the “nominum locorum explicatio,” p. 50, seems to think that Yttingaford, where peace was made between the Danes and Edward, was somewhere in the New Forest, deriving the word from Ytene, the old name of the district. Mr. Thorpe, however, in his translation of _The Chronicle_, vol. ii. p. 77, suggests that it may be Hitchen. [159]_The Chronicle_. Ed. Thorpe, vol. i. p. 178. _Florence of Worcester_, Ed. Thorpe, vol. i. pp. 117, 118. [160]Grose, in his _Antiquities_ (vol. ii., under Christchurch Castle), gives the following curious extract from a survey, dated Oct. 1656, concerning the duties of Sir Henry Wallop, the governor:—“Mem.: the constable of the castle or his deputy, upon the apprehension of any felon within the liberty of West Stowesing, to receive the said felon, and convey him to the justice, and to the said jail, at his own proper costs and charges; otherwise the tything-man to bring the said felon, and chain him to the castle-gate, and there to leave him. Cattle impounded in the castle, having hay and water, for twenty hours, to pay fourpence per foot.” The fee of the Constable in the reign of Elizabeth was 8_l._ 0_s._ 9_d._ Peck’s _Desiderata Curiosa_, vol. i., book ii., part. 5, p. 71. In the Chamberlain’s Books of Christchurch we are constantly meeting with some such entry as, “1564, ffor the castel rent for ij yeres—xiij_s._ v_d._” “1593, ffor the chiefe rent to the castel—vi_s._ xi_d._” [161]Descriptions of it will be found in Hudson Turner’s _Domestic Architecture of England_, vol. i. pp. 38, 39. Parker’s _Glossary of Architecture_, vol. i. p. 167. Grose’s _Antiquities_, vol. ii. Hampshire; in whose time it appears to have been cased with dressed stones. In the Chamberlain’s Books of the Borough, under the date of the sixth year of Edward VI., 1553, we meet with repairs “for the house next the castle,” which entry probably refers to some buildings belonging to the house, which, according to Grose, stretched away in a north-westerly direction to the castle. [162]_England’s Improvements by Sea and Land._ By Andrew Yarranton. Ed. 1677, pp. 67, 70.