[604] “Hic Alanus primo incepit facere castrum et munitionem juxta manerium suum capitale de Gilling, pro tuitione suorum contra infestationes Anglorum tunc ubique exhæredatorum, similiter et Danorum, et nominavit dictum castrum Richmond suo ydiomate Gallico, quod sonat Latine divitem montem, in editiori et fortiori loco sui territorii situatum.” Mon. Ang., v., 574.
[605] There are no remains of fortification at Gilling, but about a mile and a half away there used to be an oval earthwork, now levelled, called Castle Hill, of which a plan is given in M‘Laughlan’s paper, Arch. Journ., vol. vi. It had no motte. Mr Clark says, “The mound at Gilling has not long been levelled.” M. M. A., i., 23. It probably never existed except in his imagination.
[606] See Clarkson’s History of Richmond.
[607] Journal of Brit. Arch. Ass., lxiii., 179.
[608] These are the dates given in Morice’s Bretagne.
[609] Henry spent 51l. 11s. 3d. in 1171 on “operationes domorum et turris,” and 30l. 6s. in 1174 on “operationes castelli et domorum.”
[610] “Episcopus de Rouecestre, pro excambio terræ in qua castellum sedet, tantum de hac terra tenet quod 17 sol. et 4 den. valet.” D. B., i., 2b.
[611] See Mr George Payne’s paper on Roman Rochester, in Arch. Cantiana, vol. xxi. Mr Hope tells me that parts of all the four sides are left.
[612] Thus Egbert of Kent, in 765, gives “terram intra castelli mœnia supra-nominati, id est Hrofescestri, unum viculum cum duobus jugeribus,” Kemble, i., 138; and Offa speaks of the “episcopum castelli quod nominatur Hrofescester,” Earle, Land Charters, p. 60.
[613] See an extremely valuable paper on Mediæval Rochester by the Rev. Greville M. Livett, Arch. Cantiana, vol. xxi.