[872] Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass., xxxi. 381.
[873] This transcript was taken before the fire in which the charter was so badly injured.
[874] Bryce's Holy Roman Empire.
[875] P. 317 (3rd edition).
[876] "Rex. Quare in nomine dignitatis derogas ei, non vocans eum imperatorem Alemannorum? Herbertus. Rex est Alemannorum; sed ubi scribit, scribit 'Imperator Romanorum, semper Augustus'" (Becket Memorials, iii. 100, 101).
[877] The two other charters which belong (certainly) to this visit are known to us only from transcripts.
[878] "M. Imperatrix Henrici regis filia et Angl[ie] regina."
[879] We must remember the then supreme position and lofty pretensions of "the Emperor."
[880] Original charters of Stephen's queen are so extremely rare, that we know but little of her seal. Transcripts, however, of two fine charters of hers, formerly in the Cottonian collection, will be found in Add. MS. 22,641 (fols. 29, 31), and to one of them is appended a sketch of the seal, the first half of the legend being "Matildis Dei Gratia," and the second being lost.