William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

by F. M. Stenton

[264]. Ordericus Vitalis, ii., 290.

[265]. Ordericus Vitalis, ii., 259.

[266]. Charter of King Philip to St. Quentin, Gallia Christ; X. Inst. 247. Among the witnesses are Anselm of Bec, and Ives de Beaumont, the father-in-law of Hugh de Grentemaisnil.

[267]. Worcester Chronicle, 1079.

[268]. S. D., Gesta Regum, 1080.

[269]. Round, Calendar, No. 1114.

[270]. Ibid., 1113.

[271]. Ibid., 78.

[272]. Orderic, ii., 315.

[273]. This fact is of importance, as giving an example, rare in England, of a true “vicecomes,” an earl’s deputy as distinguished from a sheriff.