[213] "Aliis quoque sponte, nulloque cogente, ad comitissæ imperium conversis (ut Robertus de Oli, civitatis Oxenefordiæ sub rege præceptor, et comes ille de Warwic, viri molles, et deliciis magis quam animi fortitudine affluentes)" (p. 74). [214] _Cont. Flor. Wig._ (_ut supra_). [215] _Journ. B. A. A._, xxxi. 388, 389. It will also be found in the _Monasticon_ (iii. 87). [216] _Journ. B. A. A._, xxxi. p. 379. [217] _Addl. MSS._, 31,943, fol. 118. [218] _Ang. Sax. Chron._, A.D. 1100. [219] Relying on the explicit statement of the chronicler (_Will. Malms._, p. 732), that the Earl of Gloucester "fratrem etiam suum Reinaldum in tanta difficultate temporis comitem Cornubiæ creavit," historians and antiquaries have assigned this creation to 1140 (see Stubbs' _Const. Hist._, i. 362, _n._; Courthope's _Historic Peerage_; Doyle's _Official Baronage_). In the version of Reginald's success given by the author of the _Gesta_, there is no mention of this creation, but that may, of course, be rejected as merely negative evidence. The above charter, however, certainly raises the question whether he had indeed been created earl at the time when he thus attested it. The point may be deemed of some importance as involving the question whether the Empress did really create an earl before the triumph of her cause. [220] "Concilium archiepiscopi Cantuariæ Thedbaldi, et omnium episcoporum Angliæ" (p. 744). Strange to say, Professor Pearson (I. 478) states that "Theobald remained faithful" to Stephen, though he had now formally joined the Empress. On the other hand, "Stephen's queen and William of Ypres" are represented by him as present, though they were far away, preparing for resistance. An important allusion to the primate's conduct at this time is found (under 1148) in the _Historia Pontificalis_ (Pertz's _Monumenta Historica_, vol. xx.), where we read "propter obedienciam sedis apostolicæ proscriptus fuerat, quando urgente mandato domni Henrici Wintoniensis episcopi tunc legationem fungentis in Anglia post alios episcopos omnes receperat Imperatricem ... licet inimicissimos habuerit regem et consiliarios suos." [221] "Si qui defuerunt, legatis et literis causas cur non venissent dederunt.... Egregie quippe memini, ipsâ die, post recitata scripta excusatoria quibus absentiam suam quidem tutati sunt," etc. (_Will. Malms._, pp. 744, 745). Is it possible that we have, in "legati," a hint at attendance by proxy? [222] _Ibid._, p. 746. [223] _Archæologia_, xxvii. 110. See the charter in question in the Pipe-Roll Society's "Ancient Charters," Part I., p. 92. [224] _Arch. Journ._ (1863), xx. 281-296. [225] _Ibid._, p. 283. Mr. Way adopts the extension "Angl_orum_" throughout. [226] "The only instances in which we have documentary evidence that she styled herself Queen of England occur in two charters of this period" (_ibid._). [227] _Vide supra_, pp. 61, 69. [228] Pp. xi.-xiv. (see footnotes). [229] The volume closes at p. 769.