[101] Dugdale, vol. vi. p. 623.
[102] Codex Dip. ii. p. 3.
[103] Heimskringla.
[104] C. F. Keary, Vikings, p. 125.
[105] J. Earle, Saxon Chronicles.
[106] It is true it has been shown by Mr. Round that about two centuries later than this time Arx was a technical word for a military tower, and it is used by FitzStephen for the Tower of London itself: on the other hand, passages cited in Domesday and Beyond, p. 187, show that earlier it was convertible with castrum or burh, and it is beginning to be believed that burh means a castrum rather than a mound. Grants of property run, “within Burh and without Burh, on Street and off Street.” Alfred himself writes of “Romeburh” and “Babylonburh.”
[107] It is usually said that the members of the gild entered Holy Trinity Monastery, but this Mr. Round has shown is a misconception.
[108] Alfred Memorial volume.
[109] Journal British Archæological Association, 1900.
[110] Domesday and Beyond, p. 192.