[903] _Foedera_, vol. i. pt. i. p. 124. [904] W. Armor. _Gesta P. A._ c. 204. [905] _Foedera_, _l.c._ [906] _Itin._ a. 16. [907] _Rot. Pat._ p. 140 b. [908] W. Armor. _Gesta P. A._ c. 204. [909] R. Coggeshall, p. 170. [910] _Foedera_, vol. i. pt. i. p. 125. There is a mutilated version of this document in R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 292, 293. [911] “Expletis agendis suis in partibus transmarinis, rediit in Angliam,” R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 293. [912] _Itin._ a. 16; for the last date see _Memorials of S. Edmund’s_, vol. ii. p. 92. [913] _Rot. Pat._ p. 111 b. [914] R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 283, 284. The terms are stated in a very confused way, both in the Pope’s letter (given _l.c._; also in _Rot. Chart._ pp. 208, 209), in a letter of Earl William of Ferrars (_Rot. Pat._ p. 139; Ferrars was one of those who swore as sureties for the king), and in that of John himself (_Rot. Chart._ p. 199); but a comparison of the three documents with Roger’s own account of the matter makes it tolerably clear that Nicolas was authorized to raise the interdict as soon as he had obtained security for the payment of twelve thousand marks a year, in half-yearly instalments, till the total of forty thousand should be complete. [915] _Rot. Chart._ p. 199. [916] R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 284, makes the date June 29; W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 217, R. Coggeshall, p. 169, and _Ann. Waverl._ a. 1214, make it July 2. [917] _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. pp. 208, 208 b, 209. [918] R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 284, 285. [919] _Rot. Pat._ pp. 124, 140 b, 141. [920] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 215. [921] At Dunstable, “after the octave of Epiphany,” R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 278. [922] R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 278, 279, says that Nicolas, with the king’s assent, sent Pandulf specially to plead for him at Rome against the archbishop; but Pandulf’s approaching departure over sea “in nuncium nostrum” was announced by John on January 4 (_Rot. Claus._ vol. i. p. 141), ten days at least before Stephen’s appeal was made or even threatened. [923, 924] Cf. R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 278, 279, and R. Coggeshall, p. 170. [925] _Statutes of the Realm_, Charters of Liberties, p. 5. A copy of this grant, with the date January 15, is printed in _Foedera_, vol. i. pt. i. pp. 126–7. CHAPTER VI JOHN AND THE BARONS 1214–1215 Ki ore vaurroit oïr l’ocoison de la guerre dont li rois Jehans moru deshiretés de la plus grant partie d’Engletierre, bien le poroit oïr en cest escrit. _Hist. des Ducs de Normandie_, p. 145. Intervenientibus itaque archiepiscopo Cantuariensi cum pluribus coepiscopis et baronibus nonnullis, quasi pax inter regem et barones formata est. R. COGGESHALL, p. 172. [Sidenote: 1214]