[420] Symeon of Durham, 1072. “Eodem tempore, scilicet quo rex reversus de Scotia fuerat, in Dunelmo castellum condidit, ubi se cum suis episcopus tute ab incursantibus habere potuisset.”
[421] This chapel is an instance of the honour so frequently done to the chapel, which was in many cases built of stone when the rest of the castle was only of timber, and was always the part most lavishly decorated.
[422] The bailey was twice enlarged by Bishops Flambard and Pudsey.
[423] Surtees, Durham, iv., 33.
[424] Surtees Society, xx., 11-13.
[425] Evidently the southern wing wall up the motte; but we need not suppose murus to mean a stone wall.
[426] Domus, a word always used for a habitation in mediæval documents, and often applied to a tower, which it evidently means here.
[427] This is the only indication which Lawrence gives that the keep was of wood.
“Cingitur et pulchra paries sibi quilibet ala,