[595] Norm. Conq., ii. 559.
[596] Where they form one shrievalty with one firma, though the county of Surrey as well is inexplicably combined with them.
[597] And the "tertius denarius" of Cambridgeshire was actually held by its earl (1205).
[598] Stubbs, Const. Hist., i. 362, note.
[599] Official Baronage, i. 291.
[600] Mon. Ang., v. 440; Journ. B. A. A., xxxi. 392. This conclusion reveals a further error in the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, which gives a very incomprehensible account of this Patrick's action.
[601] See Appendix U.
[602] "Regnum, ut in ore jam vulgi celebre fuerat, comitissæ Andegavensi conferre disposuerat" (Gesta Stephani, p. 101). This very remarkable incidental allusion should be compared with that in which Henry of Huntingdon justifies the earl's arrest by Stephen: "Nisi enim hoc egisset, perfidio consulis illius regno privatus fuisset" (p. 276).
[603] "Duravit improspera valetudo usque post Pentecostem (June 7); tum enim sensim refusus salutis vigor eum in pedes erexit" (Will. Malms., p. 763).
[604] "Rex ... comitis absentiam aucupatus, subito ad Waram veniens, et non bene munitum propugnatoribus offendens, succensa et depredata villa, statim etiam castello potitus est" (ibid., p. 766).