[375] “The majority of historians,” Miss Norgate writes (E. H. R., viii. 18), “have assumed that these two statements are two genuine and independent accounts of one real transaction.” On this I pronounce, for the present, no opinion; but I have printed the parallel passages above, that readers may form their own opinion as to the points of resemblance.
[376] It has, of course, been asserted to be an interpolation. But, provisionally, I speak of it as his.
[377] Compare ‘England under the Angevin Kings,’ ii. 96 note, with E. H. R., viii. 20. Miss Norgate might have learnt the fact from Cardinal Moran’s paper, which was published 15 years before her work appeared.
[378] Vol. v. pp. 246–7.
[379] Ibid. pp. 318–9.
[380] Another quotation from Ovid occurs in the middle of this short document.
[381] E. H. R., viii. 42.
[382] Ibid. p. 48.
[383] Ibid. p. 50.
[384] E. H. R., viii. 44.