[945] "Collectanea quædam eorum quæ ad Historiam illustrandam conducunt selecta ex Registro MSS. sive breviario Monasterii sancti Johannis Baptistæ Colecestriæ collecto (sic) a Joh. Hadlege spectante Johanni Lucas armigero. Anno Domini, 1633" (Harl. MS., 312, fol. 92). This charter (which, being in MS., was unknown, of course, to Prof. Freeman) has also an incidental value for its evidence on the Clare pedigree, Gilbert, Robert, and Richard, the witnesses, being all grandsons of Count Gilbert, the progenitor of the house. Among the documents in the Monasticon relating to Bec, we find mention of "Emmæ uxoris Baldewini filii Comitis Gilberti et filiorum ejus Roberti et Ricardi," which singularly confirms the accuracy of this charter and its list of witnesses. This is worth noting, because the charter is curious in form, and has been described as having "a suspicious ring." It is also found in (Morant's) transcript of the Colchester cartulary (Stowe MSS.).
[946] Cart., 1 John, m. 6.
[947] Mon. Ang. (1661), ii. 66 b.
[948] Cart., 1 John, m. 6 (printed in Appendix 5 to Lords' Reports on Dignity of a Peer, pp. 4, 5).
[949] Ed. Howlett, p. 184.
[950] "In operibus Turris de Gloec' vii li. vi s. ii d." (Pipe-Roll, 2 Hen. II., p. 78).
[951] Henry I. gave land to the abbey (1109) "in escambium pro placia ubi nunc turris stat Gloecestrie" (i. 59).
[952] Mediæval Military Architecture, i. 108.
[953] Ibid., i. 79.
[954] Ibid., i. 29 (cf. "Mota de Hereford"—Rot. Pip., 15 Hen. II., p. 140).