[418] Or Geddington; R. Diceto, ii. 69. Geddington was a royal manor; the king lodged in his own house there, but the council meetings were held in Pipewell Abbey, which stood within the boundaries of the manor. _Monasticon_, v. 431. [419] Stubbs, note to _Gesta_, 97. [420] _Ann. Cambr._, 57. [421] _Gesta_, _l.c._ [422] _Ib._, 92, 93; R. Howden, iii. 20. Richard was in London November 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18 (Stubbs, _Gesta_, 97, note 3). According to the _Gesta_, the person who swore for Richard was William de Mandeville; according to R. Howden, William the Marshal. If the former be right the date must be before November 14, for on that day William de Mandeville died; R. Diceto, ii. 73. [423] _Itin._, 145. [424] _Ib._; Gerv. Cant., i. 474. The precise dates are November 26 to December 5; Stubbs, notes to _Gesta_, 97, 98. [425] _Gesta_, 97, 99. [426] Cf. R. Diceto, ii. 72, and Gerv. Cant., i. 474. [427] R. Diceto, ii. 72, 73; cf. _Gesta_, 99. [428] Chron. Mailros, a. 1157. [429] _Gesta Hen._, i. 96, 98. [430] _Ib._ 351; W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 5. [431] R. Howden, ii. 338, 339. [432] _Gesta Hen._, ii. 44. [433] £6,666 13_s._ 4_d._, W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 5; R. Diceto, ii. 72. The _Gesta_, 98, make the sum 10,000 marks sterling, _i. e._, £6,600. The charter in which Richard’s concessions to William are embodied contains no mention of money. [434] _Fœdera_, I. i. 50. Date, December 5, 1189. [435] “Pactiones quas ... Henricus rex per novas cartas et per captionem suam” (_i. e._, Willelmi) “extorsit.” [436] William had been captured, with some sixty of his men, when the bulk of the force with which he was besieging Alnwick was out of reach, by a body of several hundred English knights who had ridden to the place through a thick mist which prevented them from seeing where they were and the Scots from discovering their approach till a sudden clearing of the air surprised both parties alike by revealing their presence to each other, and the little band of Scots, though they made a splendid fight, were easily surrounded. W. Newb., lib. ii. c. 33; Jordan Fantosme, ll. 1731-1839. [437] This is the date of Richard’s charter as printed from an original copy in _Fœdera_, I. i. 50. “He,” says Richard, “became our liegeman for all the lands for which his ancestors were liegemen of our ancestors, and he swore fealty to us and our heirs.” See also _Gesta_, 104. [438] _Gesta_, 100. [439] R. Diceto, ii. 73, makes the date December 14 and the landing-place Gravelines; the _Gesta_ writer, 101, says “xi^o die Decembris, in vigilia S. Luciae,” which is self-contradictory, S. Lucy’s day being December 13. For “in vigilia S. Luciae” Roger of Howden (iii. 28) substitutes “feria secunda,” which would be right for December 11, 1189. Both these latter writers say that Richard landed at Calais, and that the Count of Flanders met him on his landing and escorted him “cum gaudio” into Normandy.