[465] Of the absentees, the Earl of Chester and his half-brother the Earl of Lincoln will be found accounted for below, as will also the Earl of Warwick; the Earl of Leicester was absent, like his brother the Count of Meulan, but he generally, as here, held aloof; the Earls of Gloucester, Cornwall, Devon, and Hereford were, of course, with the Empress. Thus, with the nine mentioned in the charter, we account for some eighteen earls. [466] See Appendix M, on the latter earldom. [467] See p. 49, _n._ 4. [468] _Add. MSS._, 31,943, fol. 85 dors. [469] _Colchester Cartulary_ (Stowe MSS.). See also p. 406. [470] As by Mr. Eyton (_Addl. MSS._, 31,943, fol. 96). The said Robert appears in the latter part of this reign as "Robertus filius Alberici de Ver" (_Report on MSS. of Wells Cathedral_, p. 133), and sent in his _carta_ in 1166 as "Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii," not as Robert de Vere. [471] _Abingdon Cartulary_, ii. 179. [472] See Appendix N, on "Robert de Vere." [473] See _Ord. Vit._, v. 52 (where the French editors affiliate him wrongly). [474] "Tunc, quia rex Stephanus festivâ carebat voce, Baldewino filio Gilleberti, magnæ nobilitatis viro et militi fortissimo, sermo exhortatorius ad universum cœtum injunctus est.... Capitur etiam Baldewinus qui orationem fecerat persuasoriam, multis confossus vulneribus, multis contritus ictibus, ubi egregie resistendo gloriam promeruit sempiternam" (_Hen. Hunt._, pp. 271, 274). [475] See Appendix O: "Tower and Castle." [476] "Reddendo mihi rectam firmam que inde reddi solebat die quâ rex Henricus pater meus fuit vivus et mortuus." Perhaps this indefinite phrase was due to the fact that Essex and Herts had a _joint_ firma at the time (see _Rot. Pip._, 31 Hen. I.). [477] "Eadem firma qua avus ejus ... tenuit." [478] "Pro CCC libris sicut idem Gaufredus avus ejus tenuit." [479] The _firma_ of Essex with _Herts_, in 1130, was £420 3_s._ "ad pensum," _plus_ £26 17_s._ "numero," _plus_ £86 19_s._ 9_d._ "blancas," whereas Geoffrey secured the two for £360. The difference between this sum and the joint _firma_ of 1130 curiously approximates that at London (see Appendix, p. 366, _n._). [480] Pearson's _History of England during the Early and Middle Ages_, i. 664 ("County Rentals in Domesday"). [481] See Appendix P: "The Early Administration of London." [482] _Historic Towns: London_ (1887). [483] The two omitted portions amount to but a few lines. There is, however, an error in each. The first implies that the charter to Geoffrey was granted before the Empress reached, or was even invited to, London. The second contains the erroneous statement that the Empress, on her flight from London, "withdrew towards Winchester," and that her brother was captured by the Londoners in pursuit, whereas he was not captured till after the siege of Winchester, later in the year, and under different circumstances.