[15] The "turris," or keep, of Colchester is referred to in a charter of Henry I. in 1101, which recites that the King's father and brother had previously held the castle.
[16] Anglia Sacra, vol. i., p. 338.
[17] Stow's Survey of London, "Of Towers and Castles."
[18] Norman Conquest (Freeman), vol. iii., Appendix, note PP.
[19] William of Malmesbury's English Chronicle, book v.; and Sax. Chron., vol. i., p. 365.
[20] Orderic Vitalis, book x., chapter xvii.; and William of Malmesbury, book v., chapter i.
[21] Norman Conquest (Freeman), vol. ii., ch. viii., pp. 189, 190, "The vengeance of Duke William on the men of Alençon."
[22] Geoffrey de Mandeville (J. H. Round), p. 89 and p. 334.
[23] The kitchens of the period were usually situated at no great distance from the Hall, and were in general of very slight construction; frequently they were only wooden-framed buildings, with walls of wattle and daub, and thatched roofs, hence the need for the continual repairs that figure so numerously in the early records.
[24] Mediæval Military Architecture (G. T. Clark), vol. ii., p. 257.