[348] Cf. Gesta, ii. 69, Gir. Cambr., l.c., W. Armor., Gesta Phil. Aug., 190, and Philippis, lib. iii. ll. 735-8 (the poet gives the date of the meeting by implication in l. 748), and Stubbs’s preface to R. Howden, ii. lxvii, note 2.
[349] Gesta, ii. 70, 71.
[350] Hist. G. le Mar., l. 8957.
[351] Gir. Cambr., De Instr. Princ., dist. iii. c. 26.
[352] Ib., 25; Hist. G. le Mar., ll. 9068-78.
[353] Gesta, ii. 69.
[354] Hist. G. le Mar., ll. 9245-8.
[355] The statement in Gesta Ricardi (Gesta Hen. et Ric., ii.), 71, that he met the funeral procession on the way and accompanied it “flens et ejulans” is at variance with a better authority for the details of the burial—the Hist. G. le Mar.—and is improbable for geographical reasons.
[356] Hist. G. le Mar., ll. 9294-8.
[357] Disfigured, “sicut perhibent qui presentes fuerunt et viderunt,” by a bleeding from the nostrils which began as soon as Richard entered the church and ceased only when he went out again; Gir. Cambr., De Instr. Princ., dist. iii. c. 28.