[193] Creighton, vol. i. p. 324.
[194] Riley’s Introduction to Liber Albus, p. xl.
[195] Cal. Letter Book A.
[196] Riley’s Introduction to Liber Albus, p. xli.
[197] Mr. Round conjectures that the ‘Gosfregth Portirefan’ of the Conqueror’s Charter was the first Geoffrey de Mandeville.—Geoffrey de Mandeville, a Study of the Anarchy, 1892, p. 439.
[198] ‘The acceptance of this view will at once dispose of the alleged disappearance of the portreeve, with the difficulties it has always presented, and the conjectures to which it has given rise. The style of the “portreeve” indeed disappears, but his office does not. In the person of the Norman vicecomes it preserves an unbroken existence. Geoffrey de Mandeville steps, as sheriff, into the shoes of Ansgar, the portreeve.’—Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 354.
[199] Constitutional History, chap, xi., note to par. 131.
[200] Select Charters, Oxford, 1884, p. 107.
[201] Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1892, p. 372
[202] Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 373.