The castles of England, their story and structure (1896)
Mackenzie, James Dixon, Sir, 7th bart. of Scatwell and 9th of Tarbat, 1830-1900 · New York : The Macmillan co. · leaf 81
command in 1076 atPinenden Heath by ArchbishopLanfranc, who afterwards restored both to Bishop Gundulph, and thus it isdescribed in the Domesday Survey four years later. Gundulph, in 1090(4 William II.), founded the abbey of Benedictine nuns here, and gave to it themanor and cliurch of West Mailing… … WEST MALLIXt; KENT 45 abbey, and called the- Old jail ; it lias narrow windows and walls of j^icatthickness. Tradition says this was the prison belonging to tlie abbey ; tliat theunderground or cellar part was tiie dungeon, and the upper part the prison forpersons guilty of smaller offences. At…
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