39. #sotlice#, foolishly, not ‘soothly’ (Norgate). Stephen lavished it in personal expenditure, payments to mercenaries and subsidies to discontented barons. ‘Habebat enim . . . rex immensam vim thesaurorum, quos multis annis rex Henricus avunculus suus aggesserat; aestimabantur denarii . . . fere ad centum milia libras. Hanc copiam gazarum habenti auxiliatores deesse non poterant; praesertim cum esset ipse in dando diffusus et, quod minime principem decet, prodigus,’ Malmesbury, ii. 540; Annales de Wintonia, 50. 40. #na god#, &c. Comp. 4/20-28. 42. The Oxford Council was held in June, 1139. The Chancellor Roger Pauper was Bishop Roger’s son. The castles surrendered were Devizes, Malmesbury, Newark, Sherborne and Sleaford. 44. #milde#: ‘lenis et exorabilis hostibus, affabilis omnibus,’ Malmesbury, 539. For a modern estimate see Norgate, i. 280. 45. #na iustise ne dide#, inflicted no punishment, as in OF. _faire justise_, _justiser_; comp. ‘de li iert faite granz justise: | a glaive sera turmentee | u vendue en altre cuntree,’ Marie, Lais, ed. Warnke, 154/60. 46. #wunder#, dreadful deeds, destruction; a development of OE. #wundor#, portent: comp. 7/67, 66/120; ‘þa scipen wenden to wu{n}dre,’ L 7855; ‘of hem ðat haued ðis wunder wrogt,’ GE 3588. The picture of oppression and desolation which follows was probably drawn from the doings of Geoffrey de Mandeville in the Fen country during Dec. 1143-Sept. 1144 (Round, 214-19). Comp. L 4034-53, an original passage based on the tradition of this evil time. #hi nan#, none of them; extension of the OE. appositional constr. in #hi sume#. Comp. ‘alle he,’ 7/47. 49. Under the treaty of Wallingford one thousand one hundred and fifteen ‘adulterine’ castles were to be razed. With #suencten# comp. 44/250; and Round, 416. 52. #þe--hefden#, lit. whom they thought that they had any property. For this periphrasis comp. 119/58, 9; ‘breðren ꝥ he hefde iherd ꝥ weren of muche speche,’ AR 74/9. The subject of the dependent verb is not expressed. 53. #efter#, with an eye to, to extort; a use mostly with verbs of pursuit or desire, but comp. 60/12, 118/28. See Round, 214 note for instances of these extortions. 54. #pining#, notwithstanding the scribe’s punctuation, is a cognate _acc._ to _pined_; with the adj. it is practically equal to unutterably; comp. 8/108. 55. Comp. ‘Sumne hi o{n}hengon be þan fotu{m} ⁊ sumne be þan earmum,’ AS. Hom., ed. Assmann, 171/36. After _henged_ the object _heom_ is omitted as being the subject of the previous verb. 58. #to ð#, to the extent that, so far that, so that. OE. #to þon þæt#. 60. #crucethus#, torture house: the first element is L. _cruciatus_. Comp. ‘Heo deden heo in quarterne[;] in ane quale-huse,’ L 3769; ‘þis meiden wes bicluset | þe hwile in cwarterne | ⁊ i cwalmhuse,’ SK 600.