Note 612 — Chapter VII · THE CASTLES OF THE NORMANS IN ENGLAND (continued 2)
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Thus Egbert of Kent, in 765, gives “terram intra castelli mœnia supra-nominati, id est Hrofescestri, unum viculum cum duobus jugeribus,” Kemble, i., 138; and Offa speaks of the “episcopum castelli quod nominatur Hrofescester,” Earle, Land Charters, p. 60.