Geoffrey de Mandeville: A study of the Anarchy

by John Horace Round

[1159] "Tribus diebus ante festum sancti Michaelis inopinato casu Oxeneford concremavit, et castellum, in quo, cum domesticis militibus imperatrix erat obsedit" (Will. Malms., 766).

[1160] "Consummatis itaque in obsidione plus duobus mensibus ... appropinquante Nativitatis Dominicæ solempnitate" (Gervase, i. 124).

[1161] "Fuitque comes Robertus in obsidione illâ per tres septimanas" (ibid.).

[1162] Ibid., i. 125; Will. Malms., 768.

[1163] "Non procul a Natali" (Hen. Hunt., 276).

[1164] "Tribus mensibus" (Gesta, p. 89).

[1165] Const. Hist., i. 448; Early Plantagenets, p. 33. Mr. Freeman rightly assigns his arrival to 1142, as does also Mr. Hunt (Norman Britain).

[1166] Will. Malms., p. 766.

[1167] Ibid.; Gervase, i. 125.

[1168] Will. Malms., p. 768. Compare the state of things in 1153 (Hen. Hunt., 288).