[15] See on this point the important letters of Mr Greenstreet and Mr J. A. C. Vincent to the Athenæum, May 9 and June 27, 1885.

[16] Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 420 et seq.

[17] Ed. Gale, pp. 114, 115.

[18] Ibid., pp. 118, 119.

[19] Ibid., pp. 124, 125.

[20] Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History, p. 148.

[21] Survey of Lindsey, p. 2.

[22] Mr Waters, in error, states two.

[23] It is an illustration of the ignorance prevalent on early genealogy that even Mr Freeman could write of 'Mr Chester Waters, than whom no man better deserves to be listened to on any point of genealogy, especially of the Norman genealogy of the eleventh and twelfth centuries' (English Historical Review, iii. 690).

[24] Rot. Pat. 27 Hen. VI, part i, m 30.