Geoffrey de Mandeville: A study of the Anarchy

by John Horace Round

[117] Comp. fol. 96: "My position is that where this system of counter-charters between Stephen and the Empress is proved, the former generally is the first in point of date."

[118] See p. 41 ad pedem.

[119] Notes and Queries, 6th Series, v. 83.

[120] On the Great Seal of King Stephen, pp. 19, 20.

[121] "Apud regem Stephanum, ac totius regni majores tanti erat ut nomine comitis et re jampridem dignus haberetur" (Mon. Angl., vol. iv. p. 141).

[122] "Gaufridus de Magnavillâ comes Essexe" (ibid.).

[123] Addl. MSS. 31,943, fol. 85 dors.

[124] Ordericus Vitalis, vol. v. p. 120.

[125] See p. 282, n. 4.

[126] "Protractaque est obsidio [Lincolnie] a diebus Natalis Domini (1140) usque ad Ypapanti Domini" (Will. Newburgh, i. 39).