[195] “Numero satisfaciunt; quales sunt Salop, Sudsex, Northumberland et Cumberland” (i. 7). Shropshire is wanting on the Roll.
[196] “Hæc per subtractionem xii denariorum e singulis libris dealbantur” (ii. 27).
[197] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I. p. 122.
[198] Indeed, the statement that this ferm was fixed by the Conqueror is at variance with the evidence of Domesday, which says, “reddit L libras ad arsuram et pensum” (i. 16).
[199] Vol. ii. p. 115.
[200] It should be observed that the plea was decided by reference to the “liber de thesauro” (Domesday Book, 156 b) and that “liber ille ... sigilli regii comes est in thesauro” (‘Dialogus,’ i. 15). Therefore, “cum orta fuerit in regno contentio de his rebus quæ illic annotantur” (Ibid. i. 16), the plea would conveniently be held “in thesauro.”
[201] See my paper on “Bernard the Scribe” in the ‘English Historical Review,’ 1899.
[202] Introduction to Dialogus.
[203] Ibid.
[204] “Id quoque sui esse juris suique specialiter privilegii ut si rex ipsorum quoquo modo obiret, alius suo provisu in regno substituendus e vestigio succederet” (‘Gesta Stephani’; see ‘Geoffrey de Mandeville,’ p. 2).