[138] Ibid.
[139] "Numero et Pondere." Brompton.
[140] "Præter Utensilia, et Jocalia, et Lapides pretiosos." Matthew Paris.
[141] In passing between Cyprus and Rhodes, in his Expedition to the Holy War, three of his Ships were lost, and among other persons that perished was the Vice-Chancellor, who had the Great Seal in his custody, and was afterwards found with it about his neck. Brompton. This was the manner in which the Seal was formerly carried by the Chancellor himself—"circa cujus Collum suspensum Regis Sigillum postea repertum est," are Brompton's words.
[142] Sir Richard Baker, p. 73.
[143] Consult the Monkish Historians.
[144] Sir Richard Baker reckons this no more than a voluntary contribution, forgetting that it was one of the established Norman Feudal Aids, though now first brought forward since the Conquest.
[145] Rymer's Fœdera, tom. viii. p. 610.—From Madox's MSS. n. 4486, p. 70.
[146] Madox's MSS. n. 4486, p. 71.
[147] Idem, p. 69.