[624] Close Rolls, ii., 98b.
[625] Hasted’s Kent, iv., 163.
[626] “Ymb sætan tha ceastre and worhton other fæsten ymb hie selfe.” See ante, p. 49, [note 120].
[627] Mr Hope suggests the east side, as the north was a marsh.
[628] History of Rochester (published by Fisher, 1772), p. 285.
[629] D. B., i., 56.
[630] “Wasta erat quando Rex W. iussit ibi castellum fieri. Modo valet 36 solidos.” D. B., i., 220.
[631] “I markid that there is stronge Tower in the Area of the Castelle, and from it over the Dungeon Dike is a drawbridge to the Dungeon Toure.” Itin., i., 14.
[632] “In operatione nove turris et nove camere in cast. 126l. 18s. 6d.”
[633] D. B., i., 120.