numerous volunteer corps that are every where assembling and arming for mutual defence, render a visit from our Sans Culottes neighbours a matter of much less moment and concern, than it was seven centuries ago.
The only object worth particular notice here is the Castle, which is undoubtedly of very great antiquity ; built, as is evident from the number of Roman bricks employed in it, out of some Roman fortress but the name of the builder, with the date of its erection, are equally unknown. Some persons, from the regularity of the strata of Roman bricks, have been induced to think it of Roman construction.
William the Conqueror being settled on the throne, gave this Town and Castle to Robert, Earl of Morton, in Normandy, his brother by his mother's side, and created him Earl of Cornwall, which he enjoyed, with divers other honours, during the reign of that King ; but in the succeeding one of William Rufus, Robert took part with his brother Odo, Earl of Kent, in an -
