Norman Origin of Cambridge Castle," W. H. St. John Hope,
_Cambridge Antiquarian Society's Communications_, vol. xi., p. 340.
[32] _Exchequer Accounts Roll_, 3/15, 5 Edward I.
[33] _Peel: Its Meaning and Derivation._ George Neilson, F.S.A.Scot.
[34] In the ruins of the Palace of the Archbishops of York at Southwell,
in Nottinghamshire, one of the wall turrets used as a latrine chamber,
or garderobe, has just such an arrangement for the drain as that above
mentioned.--_English Domestic Architecture_ (Turner & Parker), vol. ii.,
p. 114.
[35] Matthew Paris's _English History_ (Bohn's edition), vol. i., pp.
166, 315, 326.
[36] Also known as "Galighmaes, or Galleyman's," Tower, but the
nomenclature of the various towers has been greatly changed at various
times.
[37] William of Malmesbury's _English Chronicle_ (Bohn's edition), p.
443, sub. 1119 ad.
[38] _Liberate Rolls_, 37 & 39 Henry III., m. 5 and m. 11.
[39] _Ibid._
[40] Many curious particulars of this menagerie are to be found in
Maitland's _History of London_, vol. i., p. 172 _et seq._ In 1754 there
were two great apes called "the man tygers" (probably orang-outangs),
one of which killed a boy by throwing a cannon ball at him!
[41] _Liberate Roll_, 24 Henry III., at Westminster, February 24th
(1240).
[42] _Liberate Roll_, 25 Henry III., m. 20, at Windsor, December 10th.
[43] Matthew Paris, _ut supra_, vol. i., p. 488.
[44] _Close Roll_, 21 Henry III., m. 11; and _ibid._ 37 Henry III., m.
2; also _The Ancren Riwle_ (Camden Society), pp. 142, 143.
[45] _Liber Albus_ (Riley), folio 273 b., E 35, p. 477.
[46] _Close Roll_, 35 Henry III., m. 11.
[47] _Close Roll_, 9 Henry III., p. 2, m. 9. The Close Rolls were so
called because they contained matters of a private nature, and were
folded or closed up, in contradistinction to the Patent Rolls which
(being addressed to all persons impartially) were left open, with the
Great Seal affixed to the lower edge.
[48] _Issue Roll_, 19 Edward I., at Westminster, November 30th.
[49] Accounts of Ralph de Sandwich, Constable of the Tower, 17 to 29
Edward I. Army Accounts in the Public Record Office.
[50] _Close Roll_, 10 Edward I., m. 5.
[51] _Exchequer Q.R. Memoranda_, 26 Edward I., m. 109, and _Privy
Seals_, Tower, 33 Edward I., file 4.
[52] _Memorials of Westminster Abbey_ (Stanley) (second edition), chap.
v., pp. 413, 415.
[53] _Placita. Coram Rege. Roll_, 17 Edward II., p. 2, m. 37.
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