[56] Ord. Vit., iii. 5.
[57] The essential portions of these texts are quoted by Enlart, ii. 497-9.
[58] The “lesser donjon” at Falaise, which contained the great chamber, is a rectangular projection of two stories from the great donjon.
[59] Mrs Armitage in Eng. Hist. Review, xix. 443-7.
[60] Ord. Vit., viii. 12; “fossis et densis sepibus.”
[61] Ibid., viii. 24; “Hic machinas construxit, contra munimentum hostile super rotulas egit, ingentia saxa in oppidum et oppidanos projecit, bellatores assultus dare docuit, quibus vallum et sepes circumcingentes diruit, et culmina domorum super inhabitantes dejecit.”
[62] Ord. Vit., viii. 13; “Callidi enim obsessores in fabrili fornace, quæ in promptu structa fuerat, ferrum missilium callefaciebant, subitoque super tectum principalis aulæ in munimentis jaciebant, et sic ferrum candens sagittarum atque pilorum in arida veterum lanugine imbricum totis nisibus figebant.”
[63] See J. H Round, Castles of the Conquest (Archæologia, lviii. 333).
[64] Adulterinus = spurious, counterfeit.