[457] Fosbroke’s History of Gloucester, pp. 125, 126. Stukeley, writing in 1721, says: “There is a large old gatehouse standing, and near it the castle, with a very high artificial mount or keep nigh the river.” Itin. Cur., i., 69.
[458] “Of al partes of yt the hy tower in media area is most strongest and auncient.” Leland, Itin., iii., 64.
[459] “In excambium pro placea ubi nunc turris stat Gloucestriæ, ubi quondam fuit ortus monachorum.” Mon. Ang., i., 544. The document is not earlier than Henry II.’s reign.
[460] Round, Studies in Domesday, p. 123.
[461] “In operatione frame turris de Glouec, 20l.” Pipe Rolls, i., 27. In the single Pipe Roll of Henry I. there is an entry “In operationibus turris de Glouec,” 7l. 6s. 2d., which may be one of a series of sums spent on the new stone keep.
[462] Pipe Rolls, 1177, 1180, 1181, 1184.
[463] Close Rolls, ii., 88b.
[464] “In reparatione murorum et bretaschiarum,” 20l. 7s. 11d. Pipe Rolls, 1193.
[465] “Jussit ut foderetur castellum ad Hestengaceastra.”
[466] D. B., i., 18a, 2. “Rex Willelmus dedit comiti [of Eu] castellariam de Hastinges.”