[313] The Gwentian Chronicle, Cambrian Archæological Association, A.D. 962, 967. It is not absolutely impossible that these passages refer to Chester. Caerleon appears to have been seized by the Welsh very soon after the death of William I.
[314] Itin. Camb., p. 55.
[315] Loftus Brock, in Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass., xlix. J. E. Lee, in Arch. Camb., iv., 73.
[316] D. B., i., 185b.
[317] [Rex] “in reversione sua Lincolniæ, Huntendonæ et Grontebrugæ castra locavit.” Ord. Vit., p. 189.
[318] D. B., i., 189.
[319] A similar plan was made independently by the late Professor Babington. Some traces of the original earthwork of the city are still to be seen. See Mr Hope’s paper on The Norman Origin of Cambridge Castle, Cambridge Antiquarian Soc., vol. xi.; and Babington’s Ancient Cambridgeshire, in the same society’s Octavo Publications, No. iii., 1853.
[320] W. H. St John Hope, as above, p. 342.
[321] “Archiepiscopus habet ex eis [burgensibus] 7 et abbas S. Augustini 14 pro excambio castelli.” D. B., i. a, 2.
[322] “Et undecim sunt perditi infra fossatum castelli”; cited by Larking, Domesday of Kent, App. xxiv. Domesday says, “sunt vastatæ xi. in fossa civitatis.” There can be no doubt that the Chartulary gives the correct account.