[10] The Great Seals of England (Stock), p. 149.
[11] Its impression is attached to a charter tested at Tours, now at Lambeth Palace. If the date of this charter is correctly given, it is an important contribution to the Itinerary of Richard.
[12] ibid., p. 19.
[13] It is singular that Mr Wyon, while giving these data, should himself assign the change to 'circ. 1197', and still more singular that he should elsewhere (p. 20) accept the usual passage from Hoveden (iii. 267).]
[14] Miss Norgate (1194), ii. 343.
[15] Annales Monastici, ii. 251.
[16] ibid., iv. 389 (Vespasian E, iv.).
[17] Faust A. 8. fo. 136. It is a striking instance of the confusion and blundering to be met with even in our best chronicles that M. Paris (Chron. Maj., ii. 356) has an independent allusion to the king's change of seal (as a 'factum Ricardi regis enorme') in which he gives us a circumstantial account of the event and of the prior of St Alban's going over to France to secure the confirmation, 'cum effusione multæ pecuniæ et laboris', but assigns it to the year 1189. Hoveden's error pales before such a blunder as this, which has been accepted without question by the learned editor, Dr Luard.]
[18] Hoveden, by placing it wrongly (p. 66) after Hubert's resignation (p. 48), to which it was some two months previous, has misled Miss Norgate into the belief that it was the work of his successor, Geoffrey.]
[19] Stubbs' Hoveden, iv., xxxii.