Great Britain -- History -- Richard I, 1189-1199; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Richard I, King of England, 1157-1199
[369] Rigord, 97.
[370] Date from _Gesta_, 73, 74; place from R. Howden, iii. 4.
[371] _Gesta_, 74.
[372] _Ib._; R. Howden, iii. 4; Gerv. Cant., i. 450, 451 (who seems
to have got confused between Auvergne and Berry); and Rigord, 97,
whose statement is of course conclusive as to the final terms so far
as the lands are concerned.
[373] Gerv. Cant., i. 451.
[374] _Ib._, 450.
[375] _Ib._, 457; _Gesta_, 75, with a self-contradictory date.
[376] Gerv. Cant., _l.c._, says Southampton; the _Gesta_, _l.c._, say
Portsmouth.
[377] Gerv. Cant., i. 453, 454, 457; R. Diceto, ii. 67; cf. _Gesta_,
76. The first gives date August 14, the second August 15.
[378] _Gesta_, 75.
[379] _Gesta_, 74, 75.
[380] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 1.
[381] _Gesta_, 75-6.
[382] Gerv. Cant., i. 457.
[383] The _Itin. Ric. Reg._, 142, says “die S. Ægidii receptus est
cum processione apud Westmonasterium, et die tertia sequenti ...
unctus est in regem.” Gervase, i. 457, dates the arrival in London
September 2. The _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 9568-9, says, “A mult riche
procession Fu receuz dedenz Seint Pol,” without any date.
[384] _Itin._, 142; Gerv. Cant., i. 457; R. Diceto, ii. 68; _Gesta_,
78, 79.
[385] Ralph de Diceto, who as dean of S. Paul’s handed the ampulla to
the Primate, the bishop of London, to whom this duty belonged, being
absent through illness. R. Diceto, ii. 69.
[386] Cf. R. Diceto, ii. 68, _Gesta_, 81, 82, and R. Howden, iii. 10.
[387] _Gesta_, 82; R. Howden, iii. 10, 11.
[388] _Estoire de la Croisade_, ll. 205, 206; the writer implies that
he was there.
[389] _Gesta_, 83.
[390] _Gesta_, 83; cf. W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 1.
[391] W. Newb., _l.c._
[392] _Ib._
[393] _Gesta_, 84.
[394] W. Newb., _l.c._
[395] _Gesta_, 84.
[396] So at least we should gather from the treasurer’s apparent
inability to find any money for King Henry’s funeral; _Hist. G. le
Mar._, ll. 9173-200. Of course we must remember that Richard himself
had emptied that treasury two years before. This again implies that
he was at that time short of money in Aquitaine, and therefore not
likely to have since then accumulated anything in the way of a
reserve fund there.
[397] _Gesta_, 76, 77; R. Howden, iii. 8.
[398] “Nongenta millia librarum,” _Gesta_, 77; “Thesaurus ... magnus
valde, excedens numerum et valentiam centum millia marcarum” (=
£66,666 13_s._ 4_d._), R. Howden, _l.c._ There can be little doubt
that the _Gesta’s_ figure is, as Dr. Stubbs suggested it might be,
an error for “nonaginta.” We know that the royal revenue for the
financial year which ended three weeks after Richard’s coronation
amounted to somewhat less than fifty thousand pounds (£48,781;
Stubbs, preface to _Gesta_, ii. xcix).
[399] R. Howden, iii. 17.
[400] _Gesta_, 90.
[401] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 5.
[402] R. Devizes (ed. Stevenson), 10.
[403] _Gesta_, 90, 91.
[404] R. Howden, iii. 13.
[405] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 5; cf. R. Devizes, 10.
[406] R. Howden, ii. 302.
[407] R. Devizes, 7.
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