Note 373 — PEMBROKE CASTLE, Pembrokeshire.

Among his other feats “of spirit and prowess,” the following, recorded by the grave monk of St. Albans, is sufficiently “characteristic:”—About this time, William de Valence, residing at Hertfort Castle, as it is said, rode to the parke of Heathfeld, belonging to the Bishop of Ely, and there, hunting without any leave, went to the bishop’s manor-house; and there readily finding nothing to drink but ordinary beer, and, swearing and cursing the drink and those who made it, broke open the butlery doors. After all his company had drunk their fills of the best wines in the bishop’s cellars, he pulled the spigots out of the vessels, and let out the rest upon the floor; and then a servant of the house hearing the noise, and running to see what the matter was, they laughed him to scorn, and so departed.—Dugd. B. 774, Paris, 855.