[359] "Sensim sine tumultu quadam militari disciplina urbe cesserunt." This is clearly intended to rebut the story of their hurried flight (see also p. 132, infra).

[360] See Appendix J: "The Great Seal of the Empress."

[361] Harl. MS. 1708, fo. 113.

[362] "Conjuratione facta."

[363] "In indulta sibi conjuratione ... quanta quippe mala ex conjuratione proveniunt" (ed. Howlett, p. 416).

[364] Const. Hist., i. 407.

[365] "Facta conspiratione quam communionem vocabant sese omnes pariter sacramentis adstringunt, et ... ejusdem regionis proceres quamvis invitos, sacramentis suæ conspirationis obligari compellunt."

[366] Richard of Devizes (ed. Howlett, p. 416).

[367] Mediæval Military Architecture, ii. 254.

[368] Trivet's Annals (Eng. Hist. Soc., p. 13).