[406] _Early Plantagenets_, p. 25. Compare _Const. Hist._, i. 329: "The Earl of Chester, although, whenever he prevailed on himself to act, he took part against Stephen, fought rather on his own account than on Matilda's." [407] _Sym. Dun._, ii. 310. [408] "Reinulfus enim comes Cestrie tarde et inutiliter advenit" (_Will. Malms._, p. 751). [409] "Invictâ Londoniensium catervâ, qui, fere mille, cum galeis et loricis ornatissime instructi convenerant" (_Gesta_, p. 82). [410] "Venit _tandem_ exercitus Lundoniensis, et aucti numerose qui contra imperatricem contendebant, fugere eam compulerunt" (p. 275). [411] _Gesta_, p. 82. The _Annals of Winchester_ (p. 52) strangely reverse the respective positions of the two: "Imperatrix cum suis castellum tenuit regium et orientalem (_sic_) partem Wintonie et burgenses cum ea; legatus cum suis castrum suum cum parte occidentali" (_sic_). [412] _Will. Malms._, p. 752. [413] _Ibid._; _Gesta_, p. 83. [414] "Provisum est igitur, et communi consilio provisé, ut sibi videbatur, statutum, quatinus penes abbatiam Werwellensem, quæ a Ventâ civitate VI. milliariis distabat, trecentis (_sic_) ibi destinatis militibus, castellum construerent, ut scilicet inde et regales facilius arcerentur, et ciborum subsidia competentius in urbe dirigerentur" (p. 83). [415] "Emissi sunt autem ducenti (_sic_) milites, cum Rodberto filio Edæ et Henrici regis notho et Johanne Marascaldo, ut conducerent in urbem eos qui comportabant victualia in ministerium imperatricis et eorum qui obsessi fuerant" (_Sym. Dun._, ii. 310). [416] "Quos persecuti Willelmus Dipre et pars exercitus usque ad Warewella (ubi est congregatio sanctimonialium) et milites et omnem apparatum, qui erat copiosus, abduxerunt" (_ibid_). "Subito et insperaté, cum intolerabili multitudine Werwellam advenerunt, fortiterque in eos undique irruentes captis et interemptis plurimis, cedere tandem reliquos et in templum se recipere compulerunt" (_Gesta_, p. 83). [417] _Vide infra._ Since the above was written Mr. Howlett, in his edition of the _Gesta_ (p. 82, _note_), has noted the contradiction in the narrative, but seems to lean to the latter version as being supported by the Marshal poem. [418] As has been duly pointed out by its accomplished editor, M. Paul Meyer (_Romania_, vol. xi.), who will shortly, it may be hoped, publish the entire poem. [419] "Li Mareschals de son afaire Ne sout que dire ne que feire, N'i vit rescose ne confort. A Brien de Walingofort Commanda a mener la dame, E dist, sor le peril de s'alme Q'en nul lieu ne s'aresteiisent, Por nul besoing que il eiisent, N'en bone veie ne en male, De si qu'a Lothegaresale; E cil tost e hastivement En fist tot son commandement" (Lines 225-236).