Geoffrey de Mandeville: A study of the Anarchy

by John Horace Round

[280] Page 164.

[281] "Ego Matildis filia regis Henrici et Anglorum domina do et concedo Gaufredo de Magnavilla pro servicio suo et heredibus suis post eum hereditabiliter ut sit Comes de Essexia, et habeat tertium denarium Vicecomitatus de placitis sicut Comes habere debet in comitatu suo" (Camden).

[282] Mr. Birch reads "tenuit bene," omitting the intervening words.

[283] Mr. Birch for "eandem terram" (rectius "turrem") conjectures "illam".

[284] Mr. Birch conjectures "Preterea."

[285] Newport (the name hints at a market-town) was ancient demesne of the Crown. It lay about three miles south-west of (Saffron) Walden.

[286] There was still a toll bridge there in the last century. For table of tolls and exemptions, see Morant's Essex.

[287] Apparently, the high road on the left bank, and the way on the right bank, of the Cam.

[288] Neither this market nor this fair are, it would seem, to be traced afterwards.

[289] Mr. Birch conjectures "vigiliam."