[679] Rog. Wend. (Coxe), vol. ii. p. 217. Cf. the speeches before the battle of Lincoln in Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 15 (Arnold, p. 270), and that of Stephen’s advocates at Rome in 1151, in _Hist. Pontif._ (Pertz, _Mon. Germ. Hist._, vol. xx. p. 543). Gerv. Cant. (as above) does not name Hugh, but merely says “quidam ex potentissimis Angliæ.” [680] _Gesta Steph._ (Sewell), p. 8. R. Wend. as above. [681] _Gesta Steph._ (Sewell), pp. 1, 2. [682] Will. Malm. _Hist. Nov._, l. i. c. 11 (Hardy, p. 704). [683] Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 94. Flor. Worc. Contin. (Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 95). [684] The date is variously given, as follows: December 15, Ord. Vit. (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._), p. 902.--December 20, Flor. Worc. Contin. (as above).--December 21, Ann. Waverl. a. 1136 (Luard, _Ann. Monast._, vol. ii. p. 225).--December 22, Will. Malm. _Hist. Nov._, l. i. c. 12 (Hardy, p. 704); Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 94; and Ann. Winton. Contin. a. 1135 (Liebermann, _Ungedruckte Anglo-Norman. Geschichtsquellen_, p. 79).--December 23, Ann. Cantuar. a. 1135 (Liebermann, as above, p. 5).--December 24, Ann. Margam, a. 1135 (Luard, as above, vol. i. p. 13).--December 25, Eng. Chron. a. 1135; Ric. Hexh. (Raine, _Priory of Hexham_, vol. i.) p. 70; _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_), p. 156; and Chron. Mort.-Mar. a. 1135 (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. xii. p. 782).--December 26, Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 189; Rog. Wend. (Coxe), vol. ii. p. 217.--January 1, Joh. Hexh. (Raine), p. 113.--Will. Malm., the Contin. Flor. Worc., and the Ann. Margam all add that the day was a Sunday. This in 1135 would be right for William’s date, December 22; nothing can make it agree with that of Florence’s continuator, “xiii. kal. Jan.”; but the Margam annalist may very possibly have substituted ix. for xi., really meaning the same as William. The two extreme dates--Orderic’s and John of Hexham’s--seem equally impossible; unless we may take Orderic’s “xviii. kal. Jan.” to have simply an x too much, and then there would be another witness for Christmas-day. [685] Stubbs, _Select Charters_, p. 119.