[Footnote 8: This jealousy, which from the nature of the meeting may well be called parliamentary, characterized the assemblies of the Norman estates much later. See Delafoy's _Constitution du duchi de Normandie,_ p. 159. At the meeting in 1350, when an extraordinary supply was granted, the states stipulated expressly, and the king agreed, that no prejudicial consequences should follow; 'cette imposition ne portera préjudice aux gens du pays de Normandie, ne a leurs privileges ou chartes en aucune manière, ou temps présent ne a venir; et ne sera trait a conséquence.'] [Footnote 9: See in M. Le Prevost's notes to Wace, vol. ii. 531, the curious list from Taylor's anon. MS. (supposed to be of the age of Hen. I.) containing the proportions in which William's naval force was furnished. Fitz Osbero's number agrees with Wace's account of his promise. The same list, with some variations, (whence arising we know not) is printed in Turner's _History of the Anglo-Saxons_; and in Littleton's _History of Hen. II_. vol. i. See also Ellis, _Domesday_, i. 227.] [Footnote 10: Saint Germer near Gournay. The king of France at this time was Philip, the successor of Henry, whose army was defeated at Mortemer. Philip was a minor; Baldwin the fifth, William's father-in-law, being his guardian; but not, as Sismondi says, taking any active part in the management of French affairs. Philip, however, could personally have taken no conduct of such matters.] [Footnote 11: Son regne laisse si assis, E a si tres feeus amis, A sa femme, la proz, la sage, Que n'el en pot venir damage. _Benoit de Sainte-More.] [Footnote 12: Part of this passage is obscure in the original: Li conte de Flandres requist, K'en sa busuigne _a li_ venist, _Cum od_ serorge et _od_ ami.