[385] Ibid. p. 31.
[386] Dublin Review, ut supra, p. 90. So too on p. 96: “Giraldus Cambrensis asserted that both these Bulls were produced in a synod of Irish clergy at Waterford in A.D. 1175.” Cardinal Moran also argued from this date.
[387] Ireland and St. Patrick, p. 131. He speaks, however, doubtless by oversight, of “the confirmatory letter of Alexander III. himself in 1177” (p. 141), though it belongs to the same date.
[388] This is the erroneous form adopted by Professor Tout.
[389] Dictionary of National Biography, xix. 104.
[390] The words “per breve Ricardi de Luci” imply the king’s absence from England, so that if William was despatched to Ireland in 1171, it must have been before the king’s return on August 3. The charge would, therefore, have appeared on the (Michaelmas) Pipe Roll.
[391] England under the Angevin Kings, ii. 115.
[392] Vol. v., p. lxxxiii.
[393] Close of 1171, or beginning of 1172.
[394] England under the Angevin Kings, ii. 116.