[378] Gesta, 75.

[379] Gesta, 74, 75.

[380] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 1.

[381] Gesta, 75-6.

[382] Gerv. Cant., i. 457.

[383] The Itin. Ric. Reg., 142, says “die S. Ægidii receptus est cum processione apud Westmonasterium, et die tertia sequenti ... unctus est in regem.” Gervase, i. 457, dates the arrival in London September 2. The Hist. G. le Mar., ll. 9568-9, says, “A mult riche procession Fu receuz dedenz Seint Pol,” without any date.

[384] Itin., 142; Gerv. Cant., i. 457; R. Diceto, ii. 68; Gesta, 78, 79.

[385] Ralph de Diceto, who as dean of S. Paul’s handed the ampulla to the Primate, the bishop of London, to whom this duty belonged, being absent through illness. R. Diceto, ii. 69.

[386] Cf. R. Diceto, ii. 68, Gesta, 81, 82, and R. Howden, iii. 10.

[387] Gesta, 82; R. Howden, iii. 10, 11.