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 peverell's castle in the teak. 211 tliouglit, is still al)solute and certain, and it will therefore require newly analyzing, methodizing, and explaining for every age. The history of England, like other histories, natural and ])hysical, has its silent and mysterious secrets. Its profound depths must be penetrated by attention to minute cu'cum- stances; patience, labour, and endurance of sarcasm will reveal some of the fulness of its extent. But to keep pace with the moral and intellectual improvement of man, it should be written afresh, from original sources, for each successive generation. The Great Roll of the Pipe shews that the forfeited estates of William Peverell remained in the hands of the Crown for several reigns. The castle of the Peak belonged to it in the second of Henry II.'', being included among the lands held by William Peverell in Derbyshire, the annual account of whose issues the sheriff enters on the roll. The king was here himself in the following year, as the official of the county returns on his account corrodics' for the king at Pcch to the amount of £4. Is. 5d., and corrodies of the king of Scotland at Notting- ham and Pech, £38. 12s. 3d., and payments for wine (apud Pech) £3. 12s.'' In the 3rd of Henry II. (1157) we find the first mention of castle guard at the fortress, being the year's payment of £4. 10s. to two watchmen and a porter. This annual charge continues to be entered on the Pipe Rolls down to the 7th of Richard I. (1195, 1196), when it appears to have ceased', and become transferred till the 9th of John to the Clause Roll. It is not until the 19th of Plenry II. (1173) that any specific notice is made of the castle, but an important entry arises dm'ing this year, being a charge for victualhng the caslle of Pech with twenty seams of corn, at a cost of £2. 10s. Gd., twenty bacons at £1. 14s., and twenty soldiers for twenty days, £20, or at the unusually high wages of Is. per day"". There'are also two separate charges of £2. and £40. 10s. for works upon the castles of the king at Bolesoura (Bolsover) '' Magii. Rot. Pipe, 2 Hen. II. bestow it on. ' Corrodium signifies a sum of money '' Magn. Rot. Pip. 3 Hen. II. or allowance of meat, drink, and clothing ' There are specific entries on the rolls due to the king from an abbey or other from the Crd of Henry II. continuonsly to house of religion, whereof he is founder, this period. towards the reasonable sustenance of such "' Magn. Rot. Pip. 19 Hen. II. of his servants or valets as he thinks fit to