[1193] Rigord, 131. Arques had been in Philip’s hands since July 1193, when it was pledged to him and placed under the control of the archbishop of Reims by the treaty which William of Ely made during Richard’s captivity. [1194] _Ib._; R. Howden, iii. 304. [1195] Rigord, 131, 132. [1196] R. Howden, iii. 305. [1197] Rigord, 132. [1198] W. Newb., lib. v. c. 15. [1199] R. Howden, _l.c._; cf. W. Newb., lib. v. c. 17. [1200] W. Newb., _l.c._ [1201] Rigord, 132. [1202] Cf. Rigord, 132, 133, W. Newb., lib. v. c. 17, and R. Howden, iii. 305. The last-named gives the date of the meeting at Issoudun as December 9; Rigord and William make it December 5, and are confirmed by Delisle’s _Catal. des Actes de Ph. Aug._, nos. 462-464. [1203] Treaty in _Fœdera_, I. i. 66; cf. R. Howden, iv. 3, W. Newb., lib. v. c. 18, Rigord, 133, and Delisle, _Catal._, nos. 463, 464. [1204] R. Howden, iv. 3, 4. [1205] Letter in R. Diceto, ii. 135-137; cf. R. Howden, _l.c._ [1206] Letter in Appendix to Preface to R. Diceto, ii. lxxix., lxxx.; dated April 15. The context shows the year to be 1196. [1207] R. Howden, iv. 7. [1208] Cf. R. Howden, _l.c._ Gerv. Cant., i. 532, and W. Newb., lib. v. c. 18. [1209] R. Howden and Gerv. Cant., _ll.cc._ [1210] W. Armor. _Philippis_, lib. v. vv. 147-60. [1211] W. Newb. and R. Howden, _ll.cc._; W. Armor., _Phil._, lib. v. vv. 161-65. [1212] W. Armor., _Phil._, lib. v. vv. 74-96; cf. Rigord, 135, who dates the latter event “brevi temporis elapso spatio” after an event which occurred in June. [1213] R. Howden, iv. 4, 5. [1214] Rigord, 135, 136; W. Armor., _Phil._, lib. v. vv. 168-242, 254-69. There is documentary evidence of Philip’s presence at Aumale in July 1196; Delisle, _Catal._, no. 502. Gervase of Canterbury, i. 532, has confused the chronology. [1215] W. Armor., _Phil._, lib. v. v. 269. [1216] Cf. _Mag. Vita S. Hugonis_, 248-51, and R. Howden, iv. 40. [1217] Letter of Walter in R. Diceto, ii. 149, 150; cf. R. Howden, iv. 14, W. Newb., lib. v. c. 28, R. Coggeshall, 70, and Gerv. Cant., i. 544. [1218] “Precipitans sevus alta de rupe deorsum Littore Sequanio, muros ubi _postea_ rupis Gaillarde struxit,” W. Armor., _Phil._, lib. v. vv. 311-13. This dates the story 1196-7. [1219] Such is the story as told by Philip’s poet-historiographer, W. Armor., _Phil._, lib. v. vv. 276-324. Roger of Howden, iv. 54, tells it in less detail under the year 1198, without specifying its occasion; according to him Philip was the originator of this “novum genus grassandi in populo,” “and thus provoked the king of England, though unwilling, to a like impious act.” [1220] R. Howden, iv. 18, 19; cf. letters of Walter and Richard in R. Diceto, ii. 153-8. [1221] Letter in _Fœdera_, I. i. 71, dated “apud Bellum Castellum de Rupe,” July 11, 1198. [1222] J. Brompton, Twysden, _X. Scriptt._, col. 1276. [1223] Delisle, _Catal._, nos. 497, 499. [1224] Rigord, 137; _Fœdera_, I., i. 67, 68. [1225] R. Howden, iv. 19.