[477] "Eadem firma qua avus ejus ... tenuit."
[478] "Pro CCC libris sicut idem Gaufredus avus ejus tenuit."
[479] The firma of Essex with Herts, in 1130, was £420 3s. "ad pensum," plus £26 17s. "numero," plus £86 19s. 9d. "blancas," whereas Geoffrey secured the two for £360. The difference between this sum and the joint firma of 1130 curiously approximates that at London (see Appendix, p. 366, n.).
[480] Pearson's History of England during the Early and Middle Ages, i. 664 ("County Rentals in Domesday").
[481] See Appendix P: "The Early Administration of London."
[482] Historic Towns: London (1887).
[483] The two omitted portions amount to but a few lines. There is, however, an error in each. The first implies that the charter to Geoffrey was granted before the Empress reached, or was even invited to, London. The second contains the erroneous statement that the Empress, on her flight from London, "withdrew towards Winchester," and that her brother was captured by the Londoners in pursuit, whereas he was not captured till after the siege of Winchester, later in the year, and under different circumstances.
[484] It looks much as if Mr. Loftie had here again attempted to separate London from Middlesex, and to treat the former as granted "in demesne," and the latter "in farm." Such a conception is quite erroneous.
[485] It was his grandfather and not (as Mr. Loftie writes) his "father" who "is said by Stow to have been portreeve."
[486] See p. 99.