[1045] _Rot. Pat._ p. 181. [1046] M. Paris, _Chron. Maj._ vol. ii. p. 611. [1047] M. Paris, _Hist. Angl._ vol. ii. p. 159. [1048] _Rot. Pat._ p. 180 b. [1049] _Ib._ p. 143 b. [1050] _Ib._ p. 144. [1051] _Ib._ pp. 144 b, 145. [1052] _Ib._ p. 144 b. [1053] _Ib._ p. 145 b. [1054] _Itin._ a. 17. [1055] _Hist. des Ducs_, p. 151. [1056] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 221; _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. pp. 215–18. [1057] W. Coventry, _l.c._ [1058] Round, _Geoffrey de Mandeville_, pp. 89, 166. [1059] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 225, sums up the earl’s position and character very suggestively: “In parte adversa erat Gaufridus de Maundevilla comes Essexae, quem rex cingulo militari donaverat, quique regi in XIX millibus marcarum obligatus erat pro comitissa Gloucestriae quondam uxore sua, quam iste nuper acceperat.” See above, p. 196. Geoffrey’s first wife had been a daughter of Robert Fitz-Walter; see Note I at end. [1060] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 221; _Ann. Dunst._ a. 1215. Cf. R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 319. [1061] R. Wendover, _l.c._ [1062] _Ib._; R. Coggeshall, p. 172. [1063] _Itin._ a. 17. [1064] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 222. [1065] R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 321, 322. [1066] W. Coventry, _l.c._ [1067] _Rot. Pat._ p. 149. [1068] _Ib._ p. 148. [1069] _Ib._ p. 148 b. [1070] _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. pp. 218, 218 b, 219, 219 b; _Rot. Chart._ pp. 210–13. [1071] R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 319. [1072] R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 320; where, however, the list of emissaries is obviously incorrect. [1073] _Rot. Pat._ p. 153, 153 b. [1074] R. Wendover, _l.c._ [1075] _Rot. Pat._ vol. i. p. 152 b. [1076] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 222. [1077] R. Wendover, _l.c._ [1078] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 222. [1079] R. Wendover, vol. iii. pp. 336–8; misplaced, as may be seen by comparing W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 223. [1080] W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 224. Cf. R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 341. [1081] _Hist. des Ducs_, p. 152. [1082] John’s Itinerary, a. 17, is blank from August 22, when he was at Wareham, to August 28, when he appears at Sandwich. The _Hist. des Ducs_, p. 153, accounts for this blank by stating that he went by sea from Southampton to Dover (whither he did proceed on August 31 or September 1; _Itin._ _l.c._). W. Coventry (vol. ii. p. 224) says the bishops who left Oxford on August 19 to seek him found him just embarked at Portsmouth, which comes to the same thing. [1083] The absurdity of the reports given in R. Wendover (vol. iii. pp. 320, 321) and M. Paris (_Hist. Angl._ vol. ii. pp. 160, 161) about John’s movements at this time was pointed out long ago by Dr. Lingard, _Hist. England_, vol. ii. p. 362. [1084] Earl Geoffrey de Mandeville took Essex; Robert Fitz-Walter, Northamptonshire; Roger de Cresci, Norfolk and Suffolk; the earl of Winchester, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire; William of Aubigny, Lincolnshire; John de Lacy, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire; Robert de Ros, Northumberland. W. Coventry, vol. ii. p. 224. [1085] _Ib._