[1353] Cf. _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), pp. 75, 76; and Will. Newb., l. iv. c. 1 (Howlett, vol. i. p. 293). [1354] Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. pp. 453, 454. [1355] _Ib._ p. 457. R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 67. _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), p. 74. [1356] _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), pp. 76, 77. [1357] “Mater comitis Alienor regina de vocatione comitum, baronum, vicecomitum, uit sollicita.” R. Diceto as above, p. 68. [1358] _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), p. 77. Gerv. Cant. as above, p. 457, says he went to check the depredations of the Welsh. [1359] _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), pp. 78, 79. Gerv. Cant. and R. Diceto as above. Ric. Devizes (Stevenson), p. 5. R. Coggeshall (Stevenson), pp. 26, 27. Will. Newb. as above (p. 294). [1360] _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), pp. 81, 82. R. Diceto as above. This last was an eye-witness, for, the see of London being vacant, the dean had to fulfil in his bishop’s stead the duty of handing the unction and chrism to the officiating primate. _Ib._ p. 69. [1361] R. Diceto as above, p. 68. [1362] See details in _Gesta Ric._ (Stubbs), pp. 80–83; and Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. iii. pp. 9–12. [1363] We see this in the descriptions of his magnificent dress, brilliant armour, etc. in the _Itinerarium Regis Ricardi_. Such dreams however were soon to be dispelled. On the second day after his crowning Richard received the homage of the bishops and barons of his realm;[1364] he then proceeded into Northamptonshire, and on September 15 held a great council at Pipewell.[1365] His first act was to fill up the vacant sees, of which there were now four besides that of York. The appointments were made with considerable judgement. London, whose aged bishop Gilbert Foliot had died in 1187,[1366] was bestowed upon Richard Fitz-Nigel,[1367] son of Bishop Nigel of Ely, and for the last twenty years his successor in the office of treasurer; while Ely, again vacated scarcely three weeks ago by the death of Geoffrey Ridel,[1368] rewarded the past services and helped to secure the future loyalty of Richard’s chancellor, William of Longchamp.[1369] Winchester, vacated nearly a year ago by the death of Richard of Ilchester,[1370] was given to Godfrey de Lucy, a son of Henry’s early friend and servant Richard de Lucy “the loyal”;[1371] Salisbury, which had been without a bishop ever since November 1184,[1372] was given to Hubert Walter,[1373] a near connexion of the no less faithful minister of Henry’s later years, Ralf de Glanville. This last appointment had also another motive. Hubert Walter was dean of York; he stood at the head of a party in the York chapter which had strongly disputed the validity of Geoffrey’s election in the preceding August, and some of whom had even proposed the dean himself as an opposition candidate