insurrection in favour of Robert Courthose, and held out this Castle against the King; but, on the arrival of the Royal Army, he surrendered, and made his peace. He was a very devout person, according to the standard of piety of those days - namely, benefactions to monasteries; for, beside what he did for other religious houses, he gave to the Abbey of Greistein, in Normandy, the house of one Engeler, in this town, and granted to them, in his forest of Pevensel, paunage and herbage, with timber for repair of their Churches and houses, and fuel for fire. When he died, is not known.
He was succeeded in his possessions by William, Earl of Morton and Cornwall, who, on being refused the Earldom of Kent by Henry I., joined with Robert de Belesme, Earl of Shrewsbury, in a rebellion ; whereupon the King seized on all his pos sessions, razed most of his Castles to the ground, and banished him the realm. King Henry being thus possessed of this Town and Castle, gave them to Gilbert de Aquila with all the lands thereunto belonging, -
