"Alanus filius Frodonis" was probably the heir of Frodo, brother to Abbot Baldwin of St. Edmund's (see Domesday).
Page [205]. Compare William of Malmesbury's criticism on Stephen's conduct in attacking Lincoln (1140) without due notice: "Iniquum id visum multis," etc.
Page [235]. The transcriber is responsible, of course, for the extension of the king's style.
Page [242]. It is only fair to add that the peculiar strength of the words of inheritance might be held to support the view that hereditary earldoms were a novelty.
Page [267]. The charters of Henry II. to certain earls in no way affect my real contention, namely, that no "fiscal" earls were, as is alleged, deprived by him of their earldoms.
Page [275]. On the gradual resumption of Crown Lands, see my Ancient Charters, page 47.
Page [286]. "Navium applicationibus" (cf. Domesday, 32: "De exitu aquæ ubi naves applicabant") is a phrase occurring elsewhere as "appulatione navium." It there equates "theloneum," and was doubtless a payment for landing-dues. So, "de teloneo dando ad Bilingesgate" is found in the Instituta Londoniæ of Æthelred.
Page [312], note 1. Compare the charge against Harold (in the French life of the Confessor) that he "deners cum usurer amasse."
Page [314]. The occurrence of "salinis" among the general words in this charter is clearly due to the rights of the Beauchamps in Droitwich and its salt-pans.
Page [371]. The amount of the firma seems to be determined by an entry in the Pipe-Roll of 15 Hen. II. (page 169), which makes it £500 "blanch," plus a varying sum of about £20 "numero."