Note 128 — Chapter I · THE ENGLAND OF HENRY I. 1100–1135.

Dugdale, Hist. of S. Paul’s, app. xxiv. (Ellis), p. 305. Stow (London, ed. Thoms, p. 26) says that this fortress “stood, as it may seem, where now standeth the house called Bridewell.” But this is impossible; for the later palace of Bridewell stood on the right bank of the Fleet, separated from S. Paul’s by the course of that river and the whole width of the soke of Castle Baynard, so that the gift of the ditch of a castle on its site would have been perfectly useless for the enlargement of the precincts.