eating room, from the size of the chimnies, and the doorways.
The Bishop of Bayonne and his forces sustained a six weeks siege in this Castle, but for want of provisions, were obliged to surrender to William Rusus. This is perhaps the greatest and most entire remains of Roman building in Great Britain.
This place, formerly so famous for shipping, is now only accessible by small boats, which crowd up a rivulet to it.
In 1049, Suane, Earl of Oxford, and son of Godwin, Earl of Kent, being obliged to fly into Denmark, for having inveigled Edgiva, Abbess of Leominster, out of her house, with an intent to marry her, contrary to the laws of those times, returned with eight ships, and landed at this town, where, having prevailed on his cousin Beorn to mediate for him to the King, he took him into his ship to carry him to the King, who was then at Sandwich, under pretence of making his peace; but Suane, having -
