[507] Matt. Par., p. 196. Hoveden, p. 792. Dugdale Baronage, tom. i. p. 601.
[508] Trivet, p. 144. Gul. Britt., lib. vii. Ann. Waverley, p. 168.
[509] Matt. Par., p. 237.
[510] Matt. Par., p. 253-256, ad ann. 1215.
[511] See his eloquent address to the bishops and barons in behalf of the young king.—Hemingford, lib. iii. cap. 1. p. 562, apud Gale XV. script.
[512] Matt. Par., p. 289, ad ann. 1216. Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 216.
[513] Hemingford, p. 565, 568. “These liberties, distinctly reduced to writing, we send to you our faithful subjects, sealed with the seal of our faithful William Marshall, earl of Pembroke, the guardian of us and our kingdom, because we have not as yet any seal.” Acta Rymeri, tom. i. part 1. p. 146, ed. 1816. Thomson, on Magna Charta, p. 117, 130. All the charters and letters patent were sealed with the seal of the earl marshall, “Rectoris nostri et regni, eo quod nondum sigillum habuimus.” Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 224, ed. 1704.
[514] Matt. Par., p. 292-296.
[515] Matthew Paris bears witness to the great superiority of the English sailors over the French even in those days.—Ibid. p. 298. Trivet, p. 167-169.
[516] Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 219, 221, 223.