Romance of the Feudal Châteaux, By Elizabeth W. Champney
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Ah well, what would you ! A hunter took the falcon for a wild hawk and shot it, and that foolish Papiol shut himself in his tower and died of erief. The room was full of books. We burned them all that they might do no more mischief." NOTE A Though Richard called Gaillard his " daughter of one year," he had gone on strengthening it and furnish- ing it until his death, and the pay-rolls of " Echiquier Normand" for 1198 and 1199, preserved in the Tower of London, give us some idea of its strength ...and re- sources. Some of the items are : For five thousand arrow-heads, ^ 10 " wheat and wine 227 The Siege of Chateau Gaillard 335 For ten thousand herrings ^ 14 " Sawal, son of Henri, and his associates, Robert and Matthew, master masons dur- ing two years 1,700 " carpenters 3,35° " wood-cutters 2,320 inferior workmen 9, 730 guardians and porters 543 " smiths 250 arrow-makers 200 diggers of moats 178 digging three wells 300 asses 4,040 mill in the castle 149 The total expenditure by Richard is estimated at ^178,000, an enormous sum for those days.
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