[1125] Baronage, i. 188 b.
[1126] Ibid., 189.
[1127] Strange to say, Dugdale gives also this third (and right) version (ibid., i. 463 a).
[1128] In Cole's transcript (British Museum).
[1129] Ibid., No. 31.
[1130] Ibid., No. 43.
[1131] See p. 182.
[1132] It would seem clear that this William must have been the "Dominus Willelmus de Ver" to whom Dr. Stubbs alludes as the "early friend and fellow-student," at the University of Paris, of Arnulf, Bishop of Lisieux, and of the celebrated Ralf "de Diceto" (who may have been born, Dr. Stubbs suggests, about 1122). Bishop Arnulf, asking Ralf to come over and pay him a visit, tells him that William de Ver has promised to come too (see preface to Radulfus de Diceto, pp. xxxii., note, liv.). But some difficulty is caused by his appearing as a canon, not of St. Osyth's, but of St. Paul's, in 1162 and later (Ninth Report Historical MSS., App. i. pp. 19 a, 32 a). It would seem to have been the latter William de Ver who became Bishop of Hereford in 1185, and died 1199.
[1133] He had received the "Cameraria Angliæ" from Henry I., in a charter which must have passed on the occasion of the king leaving England for the last time in 1133. Madox has printed the charter (which has a valuable list of witnesses) in his Baronia Anglica, from Dugdale's transcript.
[1134] Judges of England, i. 89.