Note 1042 — Chapter XI · THE POOR.
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The author of the Gesta Stephani, a contemporary of Malmesbury, declares that the city was “vetustissimo Cæsarum opere murata:” and that its castle was “muro inexpugnabili obseptum, turribus Cæsarianis incisili calce confectis firmatum,” p. 21.