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the Danish king. Whatever resistance Warwick may have . 

 offered to Cnut, or what were its fortifications at that time 

 we have no record to show ; but we do know that great 

 changes were made at the Conquest, and that Warwick 

 then became a Norman forti-ess and the town was entrenched. 

 I will take Rous' record of these changes first, as he differs 

 materially from the contemporary records which aUude to 

 the subject. In page 107 he states: 



"In the fifth year after the conquest, Robert D'Oyly 

 began to build the castle of Oxford; that is, a.d. 1071. 

 Uiso de Abtot, in what year I know not, built the castle at 

 Worcester ; and ThurkiUus of Warwick enlarged the castle 

 of Warwick by command of the king. 



" And as is contained in the receipts of the exchequer in 

 the book which is entitled Domesday, for enlarging the 

 castle! 26 Tenements of the Abbot of Coventry were puUed 

 down. 



» At Warwik there was then an abbey, but it is now a 

 priory, and the bishop is in place of the abbot, and a prior 

 under him. 



«At Warwic there were then made the trenches 

 /fossatio) for the circuit of the walls of the town, and gates 

 ^were erected at the royal cost, and a certain noble rom 

 Normandy was then promoted to the earldom He held of 

 the gift of the king as the domain annexed to his earldom 

 the borough of Warwick itself, with its appurtenances and 

 UbertLs, by royal charter, as was the case when this borough 

 belonged to the crown. 



"This earl was named Henry de Newburg, because he 

 was bom in such a castle in Normandy. He was the son of 

 SShardde Beaumont (Bello-monte) E-l«f Beaumont in 

 Normandy. By them Henry was related to the kings 

 St Edwird, in the third degree, and to William the 

 Conaueror n the fourth degree-a man just and holy. 

 ?hen every shire had an earl or noble baron named from 

 the shire." 



