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woods 3 furlongs long and the same broad. Concerning 



the meadows and pastures 4 are free. 

 Outside the city 100 bordars with their gardens pay 50 



shillings. 

 This land (goes) with the burg of Warwic, and the third 



penny of the shire pleas. It paid in the time of King 



Edward 1 7 pounds ; when Robert received it to farm, 



it was worth 30 pounds ; now it is just the same with 



all that belongs to it. 



Taking these accounts together, ancient Warwick at 

 the close of the 11th century may be said to have had 

 within the present area a population of nearly 2000 persons, 

 or nearly one half the population it possessed at the com- 

 mencement of the present century. 



The traces which have come down to us of these Norman 

 works consist of the crypt of Saint Mary's, which is 

 obviously the work of the De Newburgs, and the remains 

 of u Norman arch found in St. James's Chapel ten years 

 ago, with zigzag mouldings belonging to this era. To a 

 certain extent this would show that the west gate chapel 

 was built in the Conqueror's time, or, at all events, 

 during the early Norman period. In ray efforts to trace 

 the old walls of Warwick, I was much struck by this fact, 

 particularly as from this point the contour of the ground 

 changed, and went at a N.W. angle to the present Bowling- 

 green, and shows there and along the gardens on the west 

 side of the Marble House, Rock Terrace, and as far as the 

 Saltisford, a steep escarpment, which falls away to the water- 

 course below. At the Pigwells this line of artificial works 

 is again perceptible, and continues round the Priory 

 Grounds, through the Tithe bam Meadow, close by the site 

 of the old Mill at St. John's ; from hence the water-course 

 flows by the east of St, Nicholas' Church and falls into the 

 Avon, but on this side there are no earth disturbances 



