Dover castle

Notes on the castleguard rents payable at Dover castle.

• Knight's fees owing castle-guard service at Dover – introduction

  Introduction to the following files.

• Knight's fees owing castle-guard service at Dover – version A

  A rough reconstruction of the schedule of castleguard rents in its original form.

• Knight's fees owing castle-guard service at Dover – version B

  A copy of the schedule of castleguard rents entered in the ‘Red Book of the Exchequer’ (ed. Hall 1896:717–22).

  H. Hall (ed.), The Red Book of the Exchequer (Rolls Series XCIX, 1896).

• Knight's fees owing castle-guard service at Dover – version C

  Another copy of the same schedule, generally more corrupt than the first one, also entered in the ‘Red Book of the Exchequer’ (ed. Hall 1896:613–18).

• Knight's fees owing castle-guard service at Dover – version D

  A rough reconstruction of the schedule used as the basis for an account of the castleguard rents received in 1261/62 (ed. Hall 1896:706–12).

• The act of 32 Henry VIII

  Full text of the act of parliament which, with effect from 29 Sep. 1540, made the castleguard rents payable at the exchequer.

• An eighteenth-century list

  A schedule of the castleguard rents which were still being paid in 1738, put into print by Hardman (1938:106–7).

  F. W. Hardman, 'Castleguard service of Dover Castle', Archaeologia Cantiana, 49 (1938), 96–107.