[7] “Mors Guillelmi regis ipso eodem die, quo Rotomagi defunctus est, in urbe Roma et in Calabria quibusdam exheredatis nunciata est, ut ab ipsis postmodum veraciter in Normannia relatum est.” Ordericus, iii, p. 249.
[8] Ibid., p. 261.
[9] Ibid., pp. 261-262.
[10] Ordericus, iii, p. 256; cf. pp. 262-263.
[11] Ibid., pp. 245-248.
[12] “Postquam de carcere liber egressus est, totum in Normannia pristinum honorem adeptus est, et consiliarius ducis, videlicet nepotis sui, factus est.” Ibid., p. 263; William of Malmesbury, G. R., ii, p. 360.
[13] Ibid.; cf. Florence of Worcester, ii, p. 21; Henry of Huntingdon, p. 211.
[14] Ordericus, iii, pp. 268-269. The speech is doubtless imaginary, but the argument must surely be contemporary.
[15] Ibid., p. 269; William of Malmesbury, G. R., ii, p. 360.
[16] Cf. E. A. Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus (London, 1882), i, pp. 9 ff.