[732] It was, I believe, duly entered in the lost volume of the Great Coucher.
[733] "Sui" omitted in Rawlinson MS.
[734] "Dabrichteswordam" (Rawlinson).
[735] R. Diceto, p. 531.
[736] (1) To the church of St. Jean d'Angely (Canterbury); (2) to Christchurch, Canterbury (Dover); (3) to St. Mary's Abbey, Leicester (Dover); (4) to Earl Aubrey (Dover) (Court and Itinerary of Henry II., pp. 15, 16).
[737] It is true that the charter to Geoffrey Ridel (Appendix BB) proves that Geoffrey de Mandeville the younger enjoyed, at the court of the Empress, the title of Earl of Essex. But the same charter proves that Henry did not hold himself bound by his mother's charters or deeds.
[738] "Do et concedo quod sit Comes de ... et habeat inde tertium denarium sicut comes debet habere."
[739] It is one of the mysteries of the Pipe-Rolls that no such payment to the earl is to be traced on them, though the grant is quite unmistakable in its terms. See Appendix H.
[740] The "unde" of this charter answers to the "inde" in the charters to Earl Aubrey.
[741] See Appendix H.