■U0WB15U ®aSb®U15.-lEtfn8 gllfrcU’s OTtll.-Theportion from which the text is a translation is thus given inAsser. de .Elfredi Reb. Gestis, fol. 23 : “ Athelmo, verofratris tnei filio , do villa de Edingbum et de Cumptuneet de Erundele, et de Bedingn et de Dingha, et deBurnham, et de Thumesfelde, et de Aschogum.”—“ Forty-nine Castles are enumerated in Domesday Book; that of Arundel only asexisting in the time of Edward the Confessor. Many single towers werebuilt during the Heptarchy and by King Alfred. The Castle of Arundeldates perhaps its true origin from that monarch.”—Dallaway.

“ Fama verb tola est ex castro quod Saxonico imperio floruit; et statim abingressu Normanorum. Rogerum de Montgomericum restaurasse legimus, quiinde Arundelue Comes dictus.”—Camden.

15nd of ^ttSSCX, A.D. 1053.—Ingulph, relating the death of EarlGodwyn at the royal tabic, adds “ Comitatusque Westsaxoni® Haroldo filiosuo datus est”—fol. 510, 540. Ilardyng, page 229, after his manner relatesthe same in two stanzas:—“ And as Kynge Edwarde,” &c.

“Kogtr ^FlontCtOtRCtlJ, pp. 8, 9.—“ Prcedictus autem Rogerus de Montegum-merici hello Anglico interfuit, et a Willelmo rege Anglorum Comitatus Arun-delli et Sdlopesberise dono dccepit.”—Wilhelm. Gemitens. De Ducib. Nor-mannis. fol. 686. 11 Rex Gulielmus Rogerio de Monte Gomerici in primis