This makes perfect sense, giving as it does the descent of the Honour from Walter Fitz Richard (de Clare), founder of Tintern. But a much later hand (? 17th century) has coolly run a pen through the three words I have italicised, thus making nonsense of the passage, which was then, in this mutilated form, printed by Dugdale! It is but a further instance of the havoc which he and others have wrought in the genealogy of the famous house of Clare. As this charter is of independent value for its early (apparently earliest)[626] mention of the name ‘Strongbow,’ its date is of importance; Mr. Archer states that it is “dated Strigul, 22nd March, 1206,”[627] an obviously impossible date. Its real date was 22nd March, 1223[628] (7 Hen. III.). We may now return to the office of Marshal in the 14th century. On June 3, 1317, the king called on the barons of the Exchequer to inform him from their records, “quæ et cujusmodi feoda marescalli Angliæ qui pro tempore fuerunt et eorum ministri temporibus progenitorum nostrorum videlicet de pane, vino, cereolis, et candelis percipere et habere consueverunt.” For reply they sent him the relative extract from the “Constitutio domus regis.”[629] In 4 Edward III., “Thomas counte Norfolk et marshall d’Engleterre” petitioned the king for his fees “qui appendent a son office de la marechausie dedeinz l’ostell et dehors auxi, come ses predecesseurs countes mareschauls ount estre servy”; and he annexed a list of them based on the above return.[630] Again, on April 13, 1344, the king called on the Exchequer for a return from its records “de feodis quam de aliis quibuscunque quæ pertinent ad officium comitis marescalli et mariscalciæ Angliæ,” etc., etc. Again they sent him the relative extract “in quadam constitutione de domo regis antiquitus facta”; but they added the passage “in Rubro Libro Scaccarii” on Queen Eleanor’s coronation (1236), and a ‘Dialogus’ passage on the fees due to the Marshal from those he imprisoned for default at the Exchequer.[631] Lastly, we have in the treatise on the Marshal’s office, as given in Nero D. vi., the following passage at its close (fol. 86_d_): In rubro libro de scaccario Regis folio xxx^o sic continetur de marescallo. Et preter hoc debet magister marescalcie habere dicas de donis et liberacionibus que fuerint de Thesauro Regis et de sua camera et debet habere dicas contra omnes officiales Regis ut testis per omnia. Quatuor marescalli qui serviunt familie Regis tam clericis quam militibus quam ministris die qua faciunt herbergeriam vel extra curiam in negocio Regis morantibus, viij d. in die et galonem vini expens’ et xij frustra candelarum si extra tres de die in diem homini suo et cand’ plenar’ quod si aliquis marescallorum missus fuerit in negocio Regis viij d. ta[ntu]m servientes Marescallorum si fuerint missi in negocio Regis unusquisque in die iij d. sin autem in domo Regis comedent. * * * * *