[18] 'Quatuor milites stipendiarios optulit abbas. Quos cum rex recepisset, apud castellum de Hou misit. Abbas autem in instanti eis xxxvi. marcas dedit ad expensas xl. dierum. In crastino autem venerunt quidam familiares regis, consulentes abbati ut sibi caute provideret, dicentes werram posse durare per annum integrum vel amplius, et expensas militum excrescere et multiplicari in perpetuum dampnum ei et ecclesiae suae. Et ideo consulebant ut, antequam recederet de curia, finem faceret cum rege, unde posset quietus esse de militibus predictis post xl. dies. Abbas autem, sano usus consilio, centum libras regi dedit pro tali quietantia' (Jocelin, p. 63). It is noteworthy that thirty-six marcs would represent just three shillings a day (for forty days) for each knight, the very sum named by Hoveden. In 1205 the pay named in John's writ was two shillings a day (home service), but both these sums are largely in excess of the eight pence a day paid, as we have seen, under Henry II, the discrepancy being incomprehensible, unless the higher wage implied a larger following.
[19] Dr Stubbs held [1870] that he acted 'not on ecclesiastical but on constitutional grounds' (Select Charters, p. 28), though he subsequently [1871] doubted whether 'the grounds of the opposition' were 'ecclesiastical or constitutional' (Pref. to Hoveden, iv., p. xci), and even admitted that 'the opposition of St Hugh was based not on his right as a member of the national council, but on the immunities of the church' (Const. Hist., i. 578).
[20] Hoveden, iv., xcii.
[21] 'Antiquas immunitates perdendo.'
[22] 'An Unknown Charter of Liberties.' English Historical Review, viii. 288 et seq.
[23] See Dr Stubbs' Pref. to W. Coventry, p. lxiv.
[24] English Historical Review, viii. 293.
[25] ibid.
[26] Will. Rufus, i. 222.
[27] ibid., i 222.