[1217] Academy, No. 645.
[1218] Duchy of Lancaster: Royal Charters, No. 6.
[1219] Compare the Rouen charter (1113) to St. Evroul, where the clause is "Anno quo comes Andegavensis mecum pacem fecit," etc., etc. (see p. 423).
[1220] This is specially applicable to the insertion of the year in numerals. Such date would be, though actually an addition, yet a legitimate inference from the event alluded to in the charter. It may be worth alluding to another case, though it stands on somewhat a different footing, to illustrate the infinite variety of treatment to which such charters were subjected, even when there were neither occasion nor intention to deceive. This is that of the final agreement between the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, of which the record is preserved at Canterbury. It has been discovered that the document from which historians have quoted (A. 1) is not really the original, but a copy "which was plainly intended for public exhibition" (Fifth Report Hist. MSS., App. i. p. 452). Moreover, the real original (A. 2) was found not to contain the final clause (narrating the place and circumstances of the agreement), which is hence supposed to have been subsequently added, for the sake of convenience, by the clerk. (See my letter in Athenæum, December 19, 1891.)
[1221] Natural son of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, the Conqueror's half-brother.
[1222] "Nigellus de Calna reddit compotum de j marca argenti pro Willelmo nepote suo" (Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I., p. 18).
[1223] Made Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry early in 1121.
[1224] Alias "de Sigillo." He was made Bishop of Hereford in January, 1121, as "Ricardus qui regii sigilli sub cancellario custos erat" (Eadmer).
[1225] In both we have the same three earls, neither more nor less; in both we have the same two filii regis, Robert and Richard; in both we have Richard de Tankerville and Nigel de Albini and Roger fitz Richard.
[1226] "Willelmum jam olim regni hæredem designatum" (p. 290). Compare the Continuator of Florence of Worcester, who, speaking of the very event (1119) by which this charter is dated, describes him as William "quem jam [i.e. 1116] hæredem totius regni sui constituerat" (ii. 72).