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©jfC SOUtD--tast none of Arundel Castle , which crowns an abrupt descentoverlooking the river Arun, appears, in common with the dungeon alreadydescribed, to have been the work of Montgomery, and contemporary with theadjoining tower. This opinion is confirmed by the close resemblance of itsexternal masonry to that of the keep; as well as by the remains of somedouble round-headed windows, still visible in the walls, and which strictlycorrespond with double arches in Winchester Cathedral , built about the sameepoch by Walkelin, cousin of William the Conqueror .

low. { Whatever appears to have been necessary for the strength andsecurity of a Norman baron and his retainers, seems to have been fully andexpeditiously effected by lEatl 2&0CJEr, whose experienced eye and warlikespirit soon detected the weak points of Arundel Castle , and supplied a remedyin those massive walls and outworks, which, with a well-disciplined garrison,must have rendered it impregnable in all the ordinary extremities of foreign01 domestic warfare. The earl who next employed his taste and munificencein the work, was Richard Fitzalan, the third of his family, to whom we shall

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