[434] Rolls Series, ii. 339 note.
[435] Ibid. ‘Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen,’ etc., iii. 408 note.
[436] Dictionary of National Biography.
[437] Ibid.
[438] Register of St. Osmund, i. 262; and Epistolæ Cantuarienses, p. 327.
[439] The date given by Dr. Stubbs.
[440] This from Hoveden.
[441] So great, indeed, is the difficulty of forcing them into accordance with Dr. Stubbs’ view, that he himself makes them all four refer to a single surrender of Nottingham and Tickhill (Preface to Rog. Hov. III. lvii., lviii.; cf. p. lxiii.), and assigns the Mortimer incident to the earlier campaign, though it is described by Richard of Devizes, who ex hypothesi is narrating the later one.
[442] Gesta Regis Ricardi, ii. 208 note.
[443] Ed. Howlett, p. 337.