[348] "Nulli sint in civitate vel burgo vel castello, vel extra, nec in honore etiam de Walingeford, qui vetent vicecomites [_sic_] intrare in terram suam vel socam suam." Strictly speaking, this refers to sheriffs, but _à fortiori_ it would apply to the king's "justicia." [349] The Assize of Clarendon describes itself as passed "de consilio omnium baronum suorum." [350] Notice the "justicia ... quæ videat," as answering to the "aliquis ... qui audiat" in Geoffrey's charter. [351] These are the words of the Assize itself, which deals throughout with "robatores," "murdratores," and "latrones." [352] This charter is limited, by the names of the witnesses, to 1163-1166. It can only, therefore, refer to the Assize of Clarendon, which conclusion is confirmed by its language. It must consequently have been granted immediately after it, before the king left England in March. Observe that the two last witnesses are the very justices who were entrusted with the execution of the Assize, and that "Earl Geoffrey," by the irony of fate, was no other than the son and successor of Geoffrey de Mandeville himself. CHAPTER V. THE LOST CHARTER OF THE QUEEN. It was at the very hour when the Empress seemed to have attained the height of her triumph that her hopes were dashed to the ground.[353] The disaster, as is well known, was due to her own behaviour. As Dr. Stubbs has well observed, "She, too, was on the crest of the wave and had her little day ... she had not learned wisdom or conciliation, and threw away opportunities as recklessly as her rival."[354] Indeed, even William of Malmesbury hints that the fault was hers.[355]