[534] Mr Hartshorne thought it was built between 1120 and 1125. Arch. Journ., xlvi., 260. It is certainly not as late as Henry II.’s reign, or the accounts for it would appear in the Pipe Rolls.
[535] Pipe Rolls, 19 Henry II., p. 117. In reparatione pontis lapidei et palicii et 3 bretascharum in eodem castello, 20l. 4s. 8d.
[536] Close Rolls, ii., 22. Order that the palicium of Norwich Castle, which has fallen down and is threatened with ruin, be repaired.
[537] Kirkpatrick, Notes on Norwich Castle.
[538] Except Kirkpatrick, who shows a judicious scepticism on the subject. Ibid., p. 248.
[539] Mon. Ang., i., 482.
[540] D. B., ii., 117.
[541] Ordericus, ii., 184.
[542] Published in a paper on Nottingham Castle by Mr Emanuel Green, in Arch. Journ. for December 1901.
[543] See Mr Green’s paper, as above, p. 388.