[694] Cited in Nevinson’s “Notes on the History of Stamford,” Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass., xxxv.
[695] “T. R. E. dabat Stanford 15l.; modo dat ad firmam 50l. De omni consuetudine regis modo dat 28l.”
[696] “Ibi habet Helgot castellum, et 2 carucas in dominio, et 4 servos, et 3 villanos, et 3 bordarios, et 1 Francigenam cum 3½ carucis. Ibi ecclesia et presbyter. T. R. E. valebat 18 solidos; modo 25 solidos. Wastam invenit.” D. B., i., 258b. There are some fragments of Norman work in the church, which is chiefly Early English, doubtless of the same date as the mural tower of the castle.
[697] Stapleton’s Introduction to Rot. Scac. Normanniæ, vol. ii.
[698] It used to be supposed that herring-bone work was a Saxon sign, and this furnished an additional claim to the Saxon origin of this castle; but it is now known that herring-bone work only occurs in the later Saxon work, and is far more common in Norman. See [note], p. 136.
[700] Ordericus, xi., ch. iii.
[701] There are three entries for the works of the turris at Tickhill in the Pipe Rolls of 1178 and 1179, amounting to £123, 12s. 5d.
[702] Pipe Roll, 31 Henry I., 33, 36. Expenses for work at the wall of the castle are mentioned. Ordericus says that Robert Belesme fortified the castle of Blythe at the time of his rebellion in 1101, but he also says that it had belonged to Roger de Busli. Hist. Ecc., iv., 33; xi., 3.
[703] Vicar’s Parliamentary Chronicle, quoted by Hunter, South Yorks, ii., 235.