[537] “Paucis ante evolutis annis, post mortem omnium suorum filiorum, videlicet, quando dedicata est ecclesia Novi Templi, inventum est corpus sæpedicti comitis quod erat insutum corio taurino, integrum, putridum tamen et prout videri potuit detestabile.”—Matt. Par. p. 688. Surely this must be an interpolation by some wag. The last of the Pembrokes died A. D. 1245, whilst, according to Matthew Paris’s own showing, the eastern part of the church was consecrated A. D. 1240, p. 526.
[538] Mill’s Catalogues, p. 145. Speed, p. 551. Sandford’s Genealogies, p. 92, 93, 2nd edition.
[539] Ex Registr. Hosp. S. Joh. Jerus. in Angliâ, in Bib. Cotton, fol. 25 a.
[540] Ib.
[541] Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, p. 6.
[542] P. 899, 900.
[543] Ante, p. 255.
[544] Joan Sarisburiensis. Polycrat. lib. vi. cap. 1.
[545] Acta Rymeri, tom. iii. p. 296, 297.
[546] Cart. vi. E. 2. n. 41. Trivet. cont., p. 4. T. de la More, p. 593.