[1120] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 41. [1121] R. Howden, iii. 235. [1122] R. Coggeshall, 62. [1123] “Circa horam tertiam recessit a portu de Swine, et in crastino post horam diei nonam applicuit in Angliam apud Sandicum portum, diei dominica tertio idus Martii”; _i. e._ he left Swine on Saturday March 12, and reached Sandwich on Sunday the 13th, R. Howden, iii. 235. R. Diceto, ii. 114, makes it a week later, Sunday March 20; but that this is wrong is clear from Gervase of Canterbury, i. 524, where we are told that Richard was received at Canterbury on the 13th, having landed at Sandwich on the 12th. Ralf of Coggeshall, 62, says he landed “secunda hora diei,” on the Sunday after S. Gregory’s day, _i. e._ on March 13. [1124] R. Diceto, ii. 114; cf. R. Coggeshall, 63. [1125] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 42. [1126] R. Coggeshall, 63. [1127] It was seemingly on the march to Nottingham that, according to a marginal note in two MSS. of Ralf of Coggeshall, “Robertus Brito a rege captus, jussit ut fame in carcere interiret” (63). I have failed to discover who this man was, or what he had done to incur such a doom. [1128] R. Howden, iii. 237-9. [1129] W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 42. [1130] R. Howden, iii. 239. [1131] _Hist. G. le. Mar._, ll. 10236-64. [1132] R. Howden, iii. 240; cf. R. Diceto, ii. 114. [1133] R. Coggeshall, 63. [1134] R. Howden, iii. 240, 241. [1135] For details see R. Howden, _l.c._, 241. [1136] _Ib._ [1137] R. Howden, iii. 242, 243, 245. [1138] _Ib._, 247, 248. [1139] “Ut regnum innovaret.” Gerv. Cant., i. 524. [1140] Gerv. Cant., i. 524, 525. [1141] _Ib._, 524-6; cf. R. Howden, iii. 247, 248. [1142] Gerv. Cant., 525. [1143] “Tantaque solemnitas facta est _propter praecedentis captionis contumeliam_,” _ib._, 526, “In octavis Paschae Wintoniae regni diademate fulgidus, _detersa captivitatis ignominia_, quasi rex novus apparuit,” W. Newb., lib. iv. c. 42. “Rex Ricardus ... consilio procerum suorum, _licet aliquantulum_ renitens, coronatus est,” R. Coggeshall, 64. It is hard to conceive what “ignominy” or “contumely” could be thought to attach to the mere fact of Richard’s captivity, or why Richard should have been “reluctant” to revive a time-honoured custom which would surely have appealed with double force to his well-known love of pomp and splendour and of grand Church services, unless its revival was urged upon him for some special reason whose cogency he was unwilling to admit. On the other hand, it is curious that R. Diceto (ii. 114) says nothing about this crown-wearing beyond the bare statement that the king “in octavis Paschae regni diadema suscepit de manibus Huberti Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi.” [1144] R. Howden, iii. 249, 250. [1145] R. Howden, iii. 251. R. Diceto, ii. 114, and Gerv. Cant., i. 527, give the same date. [1146] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 10431-52. [1147] Cf. Rigord, 127, R. Diceto, ii. 115, with date Whitsun Eve (May 27), and R. Howden, iii. 252.