(cloaca) near the new chamber, and for a door inside the closet (le vit) near the chapel and the castle wall, and for fourteen bars for two windows within the great cellar and the pantry (dom del vit) near the chapel, and for a window in the small cellar between the chapel and the castle wall, and for a small window in the pantry, and for eighteen stays (clavonibus) for the wall of the tower beyond the fountain; and for twenty spiknails (spikingg) for the seat of the aforesaid privy, near the new tower (turriolum), five pieces: for two buttons (vertenellis) and two fastenings for a window in a room of the tower, and mending one poleaxe, one piece: for two pointed bars (lanceis), eight transoms (traversenis) and four fastenings (gumfis) for the cellar near the chapel and under the chapel, nine pieces: for making a large new hammer, seven pieces, to wit for the quarry of Weldon: for making one new gaveloc for the quarry of Weldon, and mending another, nine pieces: for twenty-four transoms (traversenis), twenty-two hooks and one pointed bar (lancea) for the rooms in the tower and the small chamber near the chapel, seventeen pieces: for three pointed bars (lanceis) for the windows under the chapel and the king's chamber, three pieces: for one poleaxe for the quarry at Stanion, three pieces: for mending one pickaxe (pikoys), one piece: for three fastenings (gumphis), and one transom (travarseni) for the window towards the—(Sansoriu), one piece: for two hundred of nails and staples (stagnatis) made for different doors, three pieces: for twenty-four sides for two doors of the salting-room, two pence? (sules ad duo hostia salsarii): for one fastening (serura) for a door of a certain little cellar in the tower, four pieces[1].
The history of the Manor is so intimately woven with that of the Castle that even were it essential, it would become difficult entirely to separate them. Yet as they are occasionally mentioned without immediate reference to each other, a few facts connected with the former will not be deemed irrelevant.
At the great survey of the Norman Conqueror, Rockingham was in the hands of the Crown. It was returned as having one hide; the arable land was three carucates; and five villanes with six cottagers had three carucates. It had been held by Bovi, with sac and soc. In the Confessor's time
- ↑ The reader must be aware that the meaning of several of these terms is ambiguous, and I have therefore printed the Latin text, that he may be enabled to supply more correct equivalents.
