Francis Blomefield

“ The Essay on the Antiquity of the Castle, p. 21, says, that Roger Bigot had the custody of it committed to him; and quotes the Baronage, fo. 132, for this purpose; but there we find nothing of its being committed to his custody, but on the contrary, that "adhering to those great men, who put themselves in arms against the King, he fortified the castle of Norwich, on the behalf of Robert Curthose, and wasted the country thereabouts." ”

“ William King of the Englishmen, and Godric Mintmaster of Norwich.
More I find not of this King, nor any thing in reference to this place in his time, only make no doubt but that the number of Jews here much increased, as well as elsewhere, he being such a favourer of that people, who (we are not to imagine) had it for nothing. He died in the year 1100, being accidentally killed as he hunted in NewForest, by Sir Walter Tirrell, who shot at a stag, and the arrow glanced from a tree into the King's breast, so deep that he died immediately. ”