[784] Birch’s Cartularium, ii., 222.
[785] Ursus erat vicecomes Wigorniæ a rege constitutus, qui in ipsis pœne faucis monachorum castellum construxit, adeo ut fossatum cœmiterii partem decideret. Gesta Pontif., p. 253.
[786] “Castrum Wigorniæ nobis redditum est, tanquam jus noster, usquam motam turris.” Annales de Wigornia, R. S., p. 407. “Rex Johanni Marescallo salutem: Mandamus vobis quod sine dilatione faciatis habere venerabili patri nostro domino Wigorniensi episcopo ballium castri nostri Wigorniæ, quod est jus ecclesiæ suæ; retenta ad opus nostrum mota ejusdem castri.” Patent Rolls, 1 Henry III., p. 46.
[787] Annales de Wigornia, p. 375.
[788] “In reparatione turris Wigorniæ 8l.” Red Book of Exchequer, ii., 656.
[789] “Precipimus tibi quod per visum liberorum et legalium hominum facias parari portam castri Wigorniæ, quæ nunc est lignea, lapideam, et bonam et pulchram.” Rot. de Liberate, p. 93, 1204.
[790] Green’s History of Worcester, i., 19.
[791] Allies’ Antiquities of Worcestershire, p. 15. His words strictly apply to “the lofty mound called the keep, with its ditches, etc.,” but probably the whole area was not more than 4 acres.
[792] See the documents cited by Mr Round in his Geoffrey de Mandeville, [Appendix O], and the Pipe Rolls of 1173. “In reparatione Mote et Gaiole de Wirecestra, £35, 13s. 8d.”
[793] Gentleman’s Magazine, i., 36, 1834. See Haverfield, “Romano-British Worcester,” Victoria County History of Worcestershire, vol. i.