[484] It looks much as if Mr. Loftie had here again attempted to separate London from Middlesex, and to treat the former as granted "in demesne," and the latter "in farm." Such a conception is quite erroneous. [485] It was his grandfather and not (as Mr. Loftie writes) his "father" who "is said by Stow to have been portreeve." [486] See p. 99. [487] "Et computabitur tibi ad scaccarium" is the regular form found in the precepts of Henry II. (_Dialogus_, ii. 8). [488] See also, for Stephen's attitude towards the "adulterine" castles, the _Gesta Stephani_ (p. 66): "Plurima adulterina castella, alia solâ adventus sui famâ vacuata, alia viribus virtuose adhibitis conquisita subvertit: omnesque circumjacentes provincias, quas castella inhabitantes intolerabili infestatione degravabant, purgavit tunc omnino, et quietissima reddidit" (1140). [489] See p. 103. [490] Note here the figures 60, 20, 10, as confirming the theory advanced by me in the _English Historical Review_ (October, 1891) as to knight-service being grouped in multiples of ten (the _constabularia_). [491] See Appendix H. [492] _Gervase of Canterbury_, i. 123. [492b] "Semper quippe horrori habui aliquid ad posteros transmittendum stylo committere, quod nescirem solidâ veritate subsistere. Ea porro, quæ de præsenti anno dicenda, hoc habebunt principium." [493] "Post Pascha Stephanus, prosequente eum reginâ suâ Mathilde, venit Eboracum militaresque nundinas a Willelmo comite Eboraci et Alano comite de Richemunt adversus alterutrum conductas solvit; habuitque in votis pristinas suas injurias ultum ire, et regnum ad antiquam dignitatem et integritatem reformare" (_Sym. Dun._, ii. 312). Notice that John of Hexham always speaks of Alan as Earl "of Richmond" and William as Earl "of York." He is probably the first writer to speak of an Earl "of Richmond," and this early appearance of the title was clearly unknown to the Lords' committee when they drew up their elaborate account of its origin and descent (_Third Report on the Dignity of a Peer_). If, as I believe, no county could, at this period, have two earls, it follows that either Alan "Comes" did not hold an English earldom, and was merely described as of Richmond because that was his seat; or, that "Richmondshire" was, at that time, treated as a county of itself. One or other of these alternatives must, I think, be adopted. But see also p. 290, _n._ 2. [494] _Harl. MS._, 2044, fol. 55 _b_; _Addl. MSS._, 5516, No. 9, p. 7 (printed in _Archæologia Cantiana_, x. 272, but not in Dugdale's _Monasticon_). [495] Robert de Crevecœur and William de Eynsford. The Count of Eu was a benefactor to the priory. [496] _Thirty-first Report of Deputy Keeper_, p. 2. [497] He held a council at Northampton on his way south in Easter week, 1138.