[538] _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 25; Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 29. R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 348, makes October 16 the day of Henry’s arrival in Ireland; Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 235, makes it “about S. Calixtus’s day” (October 16 would be two days after). Gerald, _Expugn. Hibern._, l. i. c. 30 (Dimock, vol. v. p. 275) makes him reach Waterford “circa kalendas Novembris, die videlicet S. Lucæ.” The Anglo-Norm. Poem (Michel, p. 123) turns this into “à la Tusseinz”; the Four Masters, a. 1171 (O’Donovan, vol. ii. p. 1187) record his coming without any date at all; and the _Brut y Tywys._ a. 1171 (Williams, p. 217), absurdly says he sailed on Sunday, November 16. The Anglo-Norman poet seems to have taken Croch--“à la Croiz” as he calls it--for the place of embarkation. [539] _Gesta Hen._, Rog. Howden and Gir. Cambr. as above. [540] _Gesta Hen._ and Rog. Howden, as above. Anglo-Norm. Poem (Michel), p. 124. [541] _Gesta Hen._ as above. Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 30. [542] Anglo-Norm. Poem (Michel), p. 124. [543] See the curious story of their envoy’s arrival and reception at Pembroke, _ib._ pp. 119–123. [544] Gir. Cambr. _Expugn. Hibern._, l. i. cc. 31, 32 (Dimock, vol. v. pp. 276, 277, 278). Anglo-Norm. Poem (Michel), pp. 125, 126. [545] Gir. Cambr. as above, c. 31 (p. 277). [546] Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 30, says he stayed at Waterford fifteen days. [547] Gir. Cambr. as above, cc. 31, 32 (pp. 277, 278). He adds that Henry returned to Waterford, where he released Robert Fitz-Stephen, and thence proceeded to Dublin. The Anglo-Norm. Poem (Michel), pp. 126, 127, places this progress through Cashel and Lismore in inverse order, after Henry’s first visit to Dublin, and says nothing of a second visit to Waterford. Its account is however much less circumstantial than Gerald’s. The _Gesta Hen._ and Rog. Howden only name two places where Henry stayed--Waterford and Dublin; and as they both say he reached the latter at Martinmas, while Roger says he left Waterford when he had been there a fortnight (_i.e._ on November 1), Gerald’s story fills up the interval very well. [548] _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 28. Rog. Howden (as above), p. 32.