CHAPTER XVI.
[190], 6. Numbers xi. 26.
[191], 1. When the Prior died. Mr. Rokewode assigns Robert's death to 1200, perhaps because the narrative of the election of his successor follows in the Chronicle the account of the visit to the monastery of Hugh, Abbot of Cluny.
[192], 9. Proverbs xix. 11.
[193], 19. Deut. xvii. 8.
[196], 19. [Herbert] the new prior. This election seems to have taken place in 1200. After Samson's death in 1211, Herbert had a great deal of anxiety arising out of King John's refusal to accept the choice of Hugh II. (then Prior of Westminster and afterwards Bishop of Ely) as Abbot; and the narrative of the Electio Hugonis takes up 102 pages of Mr. Arnold's vol. ii. Herbert died in September, 1220, and was succeeded as Prior by Richard of Insula (afterwards 12th Abbot).
[197], 20. Acts xxvi. 24.
[197], 23. Nihil omne parte beatum. Hor. Odes, i. 16.
[198], 7. Exitus acta probabit. Ovid, Heroides, ii. 85.
[198], 11. Psalm lxiv. 3.
[199], 5. Fallitur augurio spes bona sæpe suo. Ovid, Heroides, xvii. 234.