[481] Compare the ‘Dialogus’: “De summa vero summarum quæ ex omnibus fundis surgebat in uno comitatu constituerunt vicecomitem illius comitatus ad scaccarium teneri” (i. 4). [482] Op. cit. _ut supra_. [483] 21 Henry II., pp. 15–17. For the last quarter of the 20th year they were £59 8_s._ 2_d._ [484] From the county the proceeds must always have been small owing to the absence of royal manors. [485] Pipe Rolls, _passim_. [486] They had paid out £156 7_s._ 4_d._ in the three quarters, and owed £9 9_s._ 9_d._, making a total of £165 17_s._ 1_d._, or at the rate of about £221 a year, as against some £238. [487] His outgoings were £151 4_s._ 6_d._, and he was credited with a “superplus” of £13 8_s._ 10_d._ ‘blank.’ This works out at rather over £548 “numero” for the year, the old figure being £547 “numero” (these figures are taken from the unpublished Pipe Roll of 1176). It would be rash to connect the change with the severe Assise of Northampton without further evidence. [488] An entry on the Roll of 15 Hen. II. records it as £500 “blanch,” plus a varying sum of about £20 “numero.” [489] Add. MS. 14,252, fo. 112 _d_. [490] MS.: ‘skiuin.’ The ‘Liber Albus’ (pp. 423–4) uses “eskevyn” for the _échevins_ of Amiens. [491] _i.e._ Queen Eleanor. [492] Walter archbishop of Rouen. [493] “For their administration and judicial functions in continental towns, see Giry, ‘St. Quentin,’ 28–67; von Maurer, ‘Stadtverf.,’ i. 241, 568” (‘Gild Merchant,’ i. 26 note). [494] Add. MS. 14,252, fo. 110. [495] Liber de Antiquis Legibus (Camden Soc.), p. 2. [496] London and the Kingdom (1894), i. 72. [497] London (1887), p. 45. [498] History of London, i. 190. [499] Liber Albus, i. 41. [500] “Quicumque predictorum, sine licentia majoris abierit de congregacione aliorum, tantundem paccabit,” etc. (‘Établissements,’ § 4). [501] “Si quid major celari preceperit, celabunt. Hoc quicunque detexerit, a suo officio deponetur,” etc. (‘Établissements,’ § 2). [502] See Liber Albus, i. 307–8. [503] Compare the case quoted in Palgrave’s ‘Commonwealth,’ II. p. clxxxiii. [504] Arch. Journ., ix. 70. [505] Ibid. p. 81. [506] Historic Towns: Winchester, p. 166. [507] In his valuable ‘Étude sur les origines de la commune de St. Quentin,’ M. Giry has shown that this early example, with those derived from it, was distinguished by the separate existence and status of the _échevins_. Nor have the _Établissements_ as much in common with the London _commune_ as those of Rouen. [508] Archæological Journal, L. 256–260. [509] Feudal England, 552 _et seq._ [510] Norgate’s ‘England under the Angevin Kings,’ i. 48–9. [511] These passages are quoted to show that the influence of Rouen on London is admitted by an independent writer. [512] ‘Les Établissements de Rouen’ (Bibliothèque de l’école des hautes études, publiée sous les auspices du Ministère de l’instruction publique, 1883). [513] He became, in that year, bishop of Lisieux.