[914] A motte-castle of earth and wood was certainly not regarded as “a weak and slender defence” in the time of Giraldus.
[915] Brut y Tywysogion, 1095.
[916] Bridgeman’s Hist. of South Wales, 17.
[917] Arch. Camb., 3rd ser., v., a paper on Newport Castle, in which the writer says that there are two mottes at Llanhyfer, the larger one ditched round. The Ordnance Map only shows one.
[918] Brut y Tywysogion, 1146.
[919] Patent Rolls of Henry III., 255; Fœdera, i., 161.
[920] Brut y Tywysogion, 1192.
[921] Bridgeman says that Narberth was given to Stephen Perrot by Arnulf de Montgomeri, but gives no authority for this statement.
[922] Brut, 1171.
[923] Ibid., 1107. “Earl Gilbert built a castle at Dingeraint, where Earl Roger had before founded a castle.”