[333] Beauties of England and Wales, Kent, p. 893.

[334] The passages from the Pipe Roll bearing on this subject (which have not been noticed by any previous historian of Canterbury) are as follows:—

1166-7. In operatione civitatis Cantuar. claudendæ£5 19  6
" Ad claudendam civitatem Cantuar.20  0  0
1167-8. Pro claudenda civitate Cantuar.5  1  1
1168-9. In terris datis Adelizæ filie Simonis 15 solidos de tribus annis pro escambio terræ suæ quæ est in Castello de Cantuar.0 15  0
1172-3. In operatione turris ejusdem civitatis10  0  0
" In operatione predicte turris53  6  8
" Summa denariorum quos vicecomes misit in operatione turris73  1  4
1173-4. In operatione turris et Castelli Chant.24  6  0
" In operatione turris Cantuar.5 11  7
1174-5. Et in warnisione ejusdem turris5  8  0

The latter extract, which refers to the provisioning of the keep, seems to show that it was then finished. The sums put down to the castle, amounting to about £4000 of our money, are not sufficient to defray the cost of so fine a keep. But the entries in the Pipe Rolls relate only to the Sheriff’s accounts, and it is probable that the cost of the keep was largely paid out of the revenues of the archbishopric, which Henry seized into his own hands during the Becket quarrel.

[335] The portion of the wall of Canterbury, which rests on an earthen bank, extends from Northgate to the Castle, and is roughly semicircular in plan. In the middle of it was St George’s Gate, which was anciently called Newingate (Gostling, p. 53) and may possibly have been Henry II.’s new gate. The part enclosing the Dungeon Hill is angular, and appeared to Mr Clark, as well as to Somner and Hasted, to have been brought out at this angle in order to enclose the hill.

[336] Arch. Journ., 1856.

[337] D. B., i., 2a, 1.

[338] “Isdem rex tenet Alwinestone. Donnus tenuit. Tunc pro duabus hidis et dimidia. Modo pro duabus hidis, quia castellum sedet in una virgata.” D. B., i., 2a, 1.

[339] See below, under [Windsor].

[340] “In hac [insula] castellum habebat ornatissimum lapidum ædificio constructum, validissimo munimine firmatum.” Gesta Stephani, R. S., p. 28.