[215] As is not unfrequently the case in similar narratives, this charter is wrongly introduced; for it clearly cannot be so early as 1137. It was edited by me in ‘Ancient Charters’ (p. 48) from Ancient Deeds, A. 6683, and assigned to 1143–1148, as being obviously subsequent to the fall of the earl of Essex. [216] See ‘Geoffrey de Mandeville,’ pp. 222–4. [217] Trans: ‘Englis_t_c_u_it’ (the ‘t’ and ‘u’ being obvious misreadings). The text is, it will be seen, corrupt. [218] Trans: ‘Crichcote.’ [219] Report _ut supra_, p. 66 _b_; ‘Geoffrey de Mandeville,’ pp. 435–6. [220] Report _ut supra_, pp. 61 _b_, 67 _b_; cf. ‘Domesday of St. Paul’s,’ p. 124. [221] London and Middlesex Archæological Transactions, vol. v., pp. 477–493. These documents are the same as those entered in the Priory’s cartulary. [222] Ibid. p. 480; cf. pp. 490, 491. [223] London, p. 30. [224] “Seven or eight” on p. 30. [225] Ibid. p. 31. [226] Even Dr. Stubbs seems to imply this when he alludes to “the conversion of the cnihtengild into a religious house” (‘Const. Hist.’ [1874], i. 406). [227] Compare “the retirement at one time of _seven_ or _eight_ aldermen” only three pages before (p. 30). [228] p. 33. So also pp. 34, 42, 90. [229] Coote, _ut supra_, p. 478. [230] Good instances in point are found in the Ramsey cartulary, where, in 1081, a benefactor to the abbey “suscepit e contra a domno abbate et ab omnibus fratribus plenam fraternitatem pro rege Willelmo, et pro regina Matilda, et pro comite Roberto, et pro semetipso, et uxore sua, et filio qui ejus erit heres, et pro patre et matre ejus, ut sunt participes orationum, elemosinarum, et omnium beneficiorum ipsorum, sed et omnium fratrum sive monasteriorum a quibus societatem susceperunt in omnibus sicut ex ipsis” (i. 127–8). Better still is this parallel: “Reynaldus abbas, et totus fratrum conventus de Rameseya cunctis fratribus qui sunt apud Ferefeld in gilda, salutem in Christo. Volumus ut sciatis quod vobis nostrum fraternitatem concessimus et communionem beneficii quam pro nobismet ipsis quotidie agimus, per Serlonem, qui vester fuit legatus ad nos, ut sitis participes in hoc et in futuro sæculo” (i. 131). The date of this transaction was about the same as that of the admission of the cnihtengild to a share in the “benefits” of Holy Trinity; and the grant was similarly made in return for an endowment. [231] See “The First Mayor of London” (‘Antiquary,’ April, 1887). [232] Coote, _ut supra_, p. 478. [233] Report, _ut supra_, p. 68 _a_. [234] Ibid. p. 62 _a_. [235] 5th Report Hist. MSS., App. I., p. 446 _b_. [236] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I. [237] _Infra_, p. 118. [238] Antiquary, as above. [239] Rot. Pip., 31 Hen. I. [240] Report, i. 83 _b_. It is several years later than 1125. [241] See p. 101, above. [242] Coote, _ut supra_, p. 473. [243] Tomlin’s ‘Perambulation of Islington,’ pp. 60–64. [244] Report, _ut supra_, p. 42 _a_. [245] See, for him, below. [246] Add MS. 14,252, fo. 127 _d_.