Note 820 — Chapter VII · THE CASTLES OF THE NORMANS IN ENGLAND (continued 3)
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“Locum in Eboraco qui dicitur Vetus Ballium, primo spissis et longis 18 pedum tabulis, secundo lapideo muro fortiter includebat.” T. Stubbs, in Raine’s Historians of the Church of York, ii., 417, R. S.