[270] "Literas Imperatricis directas ad Capitulum, quarum summa hæc erat: Quod vellet Ecclesiam nostram de Pastore consultam esse, et nominatim de illo quem Robertus Archidiaconus nominaret, et quod de illo vellet, et de alio omnino nollet. Quæsitum est ergo quis hic esset. Responsum est quod Willelmus" (ibid.). This has, of course, an important bearing on the question of episcopal election. Strong though the terms of her letter appear to have been, the Empress here waives the right, on which her father and her son insisted, of having the election conducted in her presence and in her own chapel, and anticipated the later practice introduced by the charter of John.
[271] Add. MSS., 31,943, fol. 97. So too fol. 115: "After June 24, 1141, when the Empress was received in London; before July 25, when Milo was created Earl of Hereford."
[272] Mandate to Sheriff of Essex in favour of William fitz Otto (Journ. B. A. A., xxxi. 387). It is possible that the charter to Christ Church, London (ibid., p. 388), may also belong to this occasion; but, even if so, it is of no importance.
[273] A charter to Roger de Valoines. See Appendix G.
[274] Journ. B. A. A., pp. 384-386.
[275] The portions which are wanting in the charter and which are supplied from my transcript will be found enclosed in brackets.
[276] Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and William the chancellor are omitted altogether, and Ralph Lovell becomes Ralph de London. Dugdale has, of course, misled Mr. Birch.
[277] Appended (as the "Degrees of England") to Gibson's well-known edition of the Britannia (1772), vol. i. p. 125.
[278] Second edition, p. 647.
[279] Appendix V., p. 1 (ed. 1829).