[456] _Gesta_, 110, 111; R. Howden, iii. 36, 37. These ordinances are dated “apud Chinonem.” As in both the writers who record them they are inserted after some events which took place in England in June, and as Richard is known, from several sources, to have been at Chinon on June 20, this is the date usually assigned for their issue. But it cannot be correct; for both our authorities say that the fleet sailed “statim post Pascha” (March 25), and that a part of it entered the Bay of Biscay on Ascension day (May 6); _Gesta_, 116; R. Howden, iii. 42. These ordinances, and the sailing order issued at the same time with them, must therefore have been issued before Easter. We have seen that Richard met Philip on the Norman border on March 15, the Thursday before Palm Sunday; after that, we have no notice of his whereabouts till April 17, when he was at Chinon (Richard, _Comtes_, ii. 263, 264). In all likelihood he had been there for a month, almost ever since his meeting with Philip. [457] _Gesta_, 111, 116. The _Itin._, 147, and _Est._, ll. 307-10, represent this order for immediate departure as issued much later still, from Tours, just before the king himself set out thence for Vézelay, _i. e._, at the end of June; but as has been shown in the preceding note, this is quite incompatible with the date at which the fleet actually sailed. [458] Endowment charter, dated Luçon, May 5 (1190); witnesses, Peter Bertin, seneschal of Poitou (appointed not before February 21, 1190, Richard, _Comtes_, ii. 263, 265), Stephen de Marzay, Brother Miles the duke’s almoner, Ralf FitzGeoffrey his chamberlain, and John of Alençon his vice-chancellor, who sealed the deed. Richard, _Comtes_, ii. 265; from Tardif, _Archives du Poitou_ (Trésor des Chartes), xi. 408. [459] _Gesta_, 99. The earlier queen referred to is there called Matilda, but as the writer calls Stephen’s wife “Alicia,” it is possible that he has reversed the names and that the other queen whom he intended to mention was not Maud of Scotland but Henry’s second wife, Adeliza of Louvain. [460] “Gourfaille, canton de Pissotte, Vendée,” Richard, _Comtes_, _l.c._, from _Archives du Poitou_, i. 120. [461] _Gall. Christ._, ii. instr. 388. On the 7th he was at S. Jean d’Angély; Richard, _Comtes_, ii. 266, from _Arch. Hist. de Saintonge_, xxviii. 140. [462] June 6; letter in R. Diceto, ii. 83. [463] R. Howden, iii. 35. Roger calls this man William of “Chisi”; Richard, _Comtes_, ii. 263, says “Chis, Hautes Pyrénées,” and seems to date this expedition earlier, between February 21 and April 17; but he gives no reason for so doing, and it seems therefore better to accept the sequence of events given by Roger, with which Richard’s presence at Bayonne on June 6 fits in very well. [464] Stapleton, _Norm. Exch. Rolls_, i. cxlv. [465] R. Devizes, 15. [466] R. Howden, iii. 36—miscalling the archbishop “William” as usual.