Note 334 — Chapter VII · THE CASTLES OF THE NORMANS IN ENGLAND
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The passages from the Pipe Roll bearing on this subject (which have not been noticed by any previous historian of Canterbury) are as follows:—
1166-7. In operatione civitatis Cantuar. claudendæ £5 19 6
" Ad claudendam civitatem Cantuar. 20 0 0
1167-8. Pro claudenda civitate Cantuar. 5 1 1
1168-9. In terris datis Adelizæ filie Simonis 15 solidos de tribus annis pro escambio terræ suæ quæ est in Castello de Cantuar. 0 15 0
1172-3. In operatione turris ejusdem civitatis 10 0 0
" In operatione predicte turris 53 6 8
" Summa denariorum quos vicecomes misit in operatione turris 73 1 4
1173-4. In operatione turris et Castelli Chant. 24 6 0
" In operatione turris Cantuar. 5 11 7
1174-5. Et in warnisione ejusdem turris 5 8 0
The latter extract, which refers to the provisioning of the keep, seems to show that it was then finished. The sums put down to the castle, amounting to about £4000 of our money, are not sufficient to defray the cost of so fine a keep. But the entries in the Pipe Rolls relate only to the Sheriff’s accounts, and it is probable that the cost of the keep was largely paid out of the revenues of the archbishopric, which Henry seized into his own hands during the Becket quarrel.