England under the Angevin Kings, Volume IINorgate, Kate
History
England under the Angevin Kings, Volume II
Norgate, Kate
Anjou, House of; England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485; Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216
[156] _Ibid._ Herb. Bosh. (_ibid._), p. 297. Will. Cant.
(_ib._ vol. i.), p. 30. E. Grim (_ib._ vol. ii.), p. 391.
Anon. I. (_ib._ vol. iv.), p. 42. Garnier (Hippeau), p. 52.
_Thomas Saga_ (Magnusson), vol. i. p. 18. Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs),
vol. i. p. 183. R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 313. The
actual sentence was forfeiture of all his moveable goods _ad
misericordiam_--commuted according to custom; cf. Herb. Bosh.
and Gerv. Cant., as above, with Will. Fitz-Steph. (as above),
p. 62. Garnier makes the sum three hundred pounds; Will. Cant.,
fifty; E. Grim, the Anon. I. and R. Diceto, five hundred.
[157] Garnier (Hippeau), p. 52. E. Grim (as above), p. 391.
Anon. I. (_ib._ vol. iv.), p. 43.
[158] This must be the meaning of Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ib._ vol.
iii.), p. 53, compared with R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. pp.
313, 314.
[159] Will. Fitz-Steph. as above.
[160] The demand is stated by Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ibid._) as
“de quingentis marcis ex causâ commodati in exercitu Tolosæ,
et aliis quingentis marcis ex causâ fidejussionis regis pro eo
erga quendam Judæum ibidem.” This would make the total amount
£666: 3: 8. Herb. Bosh. (_ibid._), p. 298, and the _Thomas
Saga_ (Magnusson), vol. i. p. 189, make it five hundred pounds.
[161] Herb. Bosh. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. iii.), pp. 298,
299.
[162] Garnier (Hippeau), p. 53. Will. Cant. (Robertson,
_Becket_, vol. i.), p. 31. Joh. Salisb. (_ib._ vol. ii.), p.
312. E. Grim (_ibid._), p. 392. Will. Fitz-Steph. (_ib._ vol.
iii.), p. 54. Herb. Bosh. (_ibid._), p. 299. Anon. I. (_ib._
vol. iv.), p. 43. Anon. II. (_ibid._), p. 104. R. Diceto
(Stubbs), vol. i. p. 314. The total sum due was assessed
in the end at thirty thousand pounds, according to Garnier
(p. 65), Will. Cant. (p. 38), E. Grim (p. 396) and Anon. I.
(p. 49). Herb. Bosh., however (as above), makes it thirty
thousand marks (_i.e._ twenty thousand pounds). The _Thomas
Saga_ (Magnusson), vol. i. p. 191, says thirty thousand marks
“of burnt silver,” _i.e._ blanch; while Gilbert Foliot, when
reciting the story to the Pope’s legates in 1167, is reported
as stating it at forty-four thousand marks (£2933: 6: 8); Ep.
cccxxxix. (Robertson, _Becket_, vol. vi. p. 271). Herb. Bosh.
(as above) places this demand on the Saturday morning, and the
whole history of the three days, Friday-Sunday, October 9–11,
is somewhat confused by the discordant notes of time given by
the various biographers. I have followed Will. Fitz-Steph., who
is the most self-consistent and apparently the most trustworthy.
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