[1335] See _Hist. de Guill. le Mar._, vv. 9198, 9199 (_Romania_, vol. xi. p. 67). [1336] _Ib._ vv. 9347–9354 (p. 69). [1337] R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 67. [1338] Gir. Cambr. _Vita Galfr._, l. i. c. 5 (Brewer, vol. iv. p. 372). [1339] _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), p. 72. [1340] R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 67. How had the archbishops power to cancel a legatine sentence? [1341] _Ibid._ _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), p. 73. (The date is from this last). [1342] _Gesta Ric._ as above. [1343] _Ib._ p. 72. [1344] _Ib._ p. 73. Will. Newb., l. iv. c. 3 (Howlett, vol. i. p. 301). On John and Mortain see Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 6 and note 2, and preface to vol. iii. p. xxiv, note 1. [1345] _Gesta Ric._ as above. This last match was evidently intended to secure the attachment of the important little border-county of Perche in case of a rupture with France, which seemed by no means unlikely. The alliance of Philip and Richard had expired with King Henry; now that Richard stood in his father’s place, Philip saw in him nothing but his father’s successor--the head of the Angevin house, whose policy was to be thwarted and his power undermined on every possible occasion and by every possible means. This was made evident at a colloquy held on S. Mary Magdalene’s day to settle the new relations between the two princes; Philip greeted his former ally with a peremptory demand for the restitution of the Vexin.[1346] Richard put him off with a bribe of four thousand marks, over and above the twenty thousand promised by Henry at Colombières; and on this condition, accompanied, it seems, by a vague understanding that Richard and Adela were to marry after all,[1347] Philip agreed to leave Richard in undisturbed possession of all his father’s dominions, including the castles and towns which had been taken from Henry in the last war,[1348] except those of Berry and Auvergne.[1349] Thus secured, for the moment at least, in Normandy, Richard prepared to take possession of his island realm. He had paved the way for his coming there by empowering Eleanor to make a progress throughout England, taking from all the freemen of the land oaths of fealty in his name, releasing captives, pardoning criminals, mitigating, so far as was possible without upsetting the ordinary course of justice, the severe administration of the late king. Richard himself now restored the earl of Leicester and the other barons whom Henry had disseized six years before.[1350] The next step was to send home the archbishop of Canterbury and three other English prelates who were with him in Normandy.[1351] On August 12 they were followed by Richard himself.[1352] [1346] _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), pp. 73, 74. Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. iii. pp. 3, 4. [1347] _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), p. 74. [1348] Rog. Howden as above, p. 4.