Note 15 — IV. THE ROYAL PALACE OF ELTHAM.

Pugin gives the following note: “Somerton Castle in Lincolnshire built also by Anthony Beke, was of a quadrangle plan with four polygonal towers at the corners, and was encompassed by very strong banks and deep moats beyond the walls.” Robert de Graystanes, an ancient historian of the Church of Durham, in his account of Bishop Bec’s works, says: “Castrum de Somerton juxta Lincoln, et manerium de Eltham juxta London, curiosissime ædificavit; sed primum regi et secundum reginae postea contulit” (Anglia Sacra i. 755).