[505] He set sail "aliquanto post festum sancti Johannis" (Will. Malms., p. 765).
[506] See the dazzling description of his power given by the author of the Gesta, who speaks of him as one "qui omnes regni primates et divitiarum potentiâ et dignitatis excedebat opulentiâ; turrim quoque Londoniarum in manu, sed et castella inexpugnabilis fortitudinis circa civitatem constructa habebat, omnemque regni partem, quæ se regi subdiderat, ut ubique per regnum regis vices adimplens, et, in rebus agendis, rege avidius exaudiretur, et in præceptis injungendis, plus ei quam regi obtemperaretur" (p. 101). William of Newburgh, in the same spirit, speaks of him as "regi terribilis" (i. 44).
[507] See p. 160.
[508] "In totâ propemodum Angliâ sicut mortuus conclamaretur" (ibid.).
[509] William of Malmesbury (ut supra) is the authority for 1142, and Henry of Huntingdon for 1136: "Ad Rogationes vero divulgatum est regem mortuum esse" (p. 259).
[510] "Jam ergo cœpit rabies prædicta Normannorum, perjurio et proditione pullulare" (ibid.).
[511] It would seem to have been entered immediately after that charter to Miles of Gloucester which I have printed on p. 11, and which precedes it in the transcripts.
[512] Lansdowne MS. 259, fol. 66.
[513] "Archiepiscopis, etc." (Dug.).
[514] "suus" omitted (Dug.).