le roy Cassibalan de morast rey, si come avant; mes q'il rendist a Rome chescun an de chescun mesuage en sa terre un denier. Adonques Julius Caesar fit un tour pour le tribut lesuisdit reposer la ou le chastell de Doure esta, et encore est cele tour illoeques pres du menster, et est berefrai pur les grantz seyns. Apres la Nativitie notre Signeur l'an seisante douszisme regna en Bretaigne Arviragus, celi ne voleit estre sujet à Rome, mes destint le tribut, et enforcea le chastel de Doure de fosses, et de mins, et de garnesture. . . . L'an de la Grace cent et sessante vintisme regna en Bretaigne Lucius, celi devint Christien desouz le Pape Eleutherie, et servi Dieu et avancea sainte eglise quant il pouit: entre ses autres benefaitz fist une eglise en le dit chastell ou les gentz de la ville puissant avec son sacraments, et pertant est l'eglise la premiere eglise du Rome, &c." (Monast. IV, 528, 533, 535.)
The priory of St. Martin was originally filled with twenty-two secular canons, but the archbishop having found the old members guilty of great irregularities, he ejected them, and about A.D. 1130 K. Henry I granted the establishment to the archbishop and Christ's Church Canterbury for placing there regular Augustin canons. (Monast. IV, 528.) A hospital for lepers, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was commenced at Dover about A.D. 1141. (From Tanner, in Monast. VI, 764.) The hospital of St. Mary or Maison Dieu was founded by Hubert de Burgo, Earl of Kent, in the beginning of K. Henry III's reign. (Monast. VI, 655.)
The remains of St. Martin's Priory, now a farm-house, consisting of Tr. Norm, work, and of the Maison Dieu still contain some interesting portions of the ancient buildings. For a notice of the old church in Dover Castle see Bloxam (Goth. Archit., 40, &c., ed. 1846.)
Dover was burned during the Norman invasion. "In ipso primo adventu ejus (scil. Wilielmi regis) in Angliam fuit ipsa villa combusta." (D.B.) It is also stated that there was a mill at the entrance of the harbour, which caused nearly all vessels to be wrecked. "In introitu portus de Douere est unum molendinum, quod omnes pene naves confringit per magnam turbationem maris, et magnum damnum fecit regi et hominibus, et non fuit ibi T. R. E." (D.B.)
"The opinion generally received, that Dover Castle was first built by the Conqueror, though followed by Ellis (Introd. I, 223), appears to me erroneous. See also Hasted's Hist. of Kent, IX, 480." [This reference must be to the small, not the folio, edition
