[263] _i.e._ Hyde Park Corner, as it now is. See, for this custom, the _Chronicles of the Mayors of London_, which record how, a century later (1257), upon the king approaching Westminster, "exierunt Maior et cives, _sicut mos est_ ad salutandum ipsum usque ad Kniwtebrigge" (p. 31). The Continuator (p. 132) alludes to some such reception by the citizens ("cum honore susceperunt"). [264] "Videns itaque David rex multa competere in imperatricis neptis suæ promotionem, post Ascensionem Domini ad eam in Suthangliam profectus est: ... Venit itaque rex ad neptem suam, plurimosque ex principibus sibi acquiescentes habuit ut ipsa promoveretur ad totius regni fastigium" (_Sym. Dun._, ii. 309). As he did not join her till after her election, I have taken this latter phrase as referring to her coronation (see p. 80). Cf. p. 5, _n._ 5. [265] "Vix paucis ante Nativitatem beati Johannis diebus." [266] "Cives ... Imperatricem ... favorabiliter susciperunt undecimo [_al._ Sexto] Kal. Maii." [267] See the _Liber de Antiquis Legibus_: "Tandem a Londonensibus expulsa est in die Sancti Johannis Bapt." So also Trivet. [268] "Ibique aliquantis diebus ... resedit" (p. 131). [269] "[Legatus] rem exanimans, præscriptam factionem invenit, fautoribusque ipsius dignâ animadversione interdixit ne Willelmum in Episcopum nisi canonicâ electione susciperent. Ipsi quoque Willelmo interdixit omnem ecclesiasticam communionem, si Episcopatum susciperet nisi Canonice promotus. Actum id in die S. Johannis Baptistæ. Pactus erat Willelmus ab Imperatrice baculum et annulum recipere; et data hæc ei essent, nisi, facta a Londoniensibus dissentione, cum omnibus suis discederet _ipso die_ a Londonia Imperatrix."—Continuatio Historiæ Turgoti (_Anglia Sacra_, i. 711). This passage further proves (though, indeed, there is no reason to doubt it) that the legate remained in London till the actual flight of the Empress. It also illustrates their discordance. [270] "Literas Imperatricis directas ad Capitulum, quarum summa hæc erat: Quod vellet Ecclesiam nostram de Pastore consultam esse, et nominatim de illo quem Robertus Archidiaconus nominaret, et quod de illo vellet, et de alio omnino nollet. Quæsitum est ergo quis hic esset. Responsum est quod Willelmus" (_ibid._). This has, of course, an important bearing on the question of episcopal election. Strong though the terms of her letter appear to have been, the Empress here waives the right, on which her father and her son insisted, of having the election conducted in her presence and in her own chapel, and anticipated the later practice introduced by the charter of John. [271] _Add. MSS._, 31,943, fol. 97. So too fol. 115: "After June 24, 1141, when the Empress was received in London; before July 25, when Milo was created Earl of Hereford."