[737] _Roy. Lett._, vol. i. pp. 144, 145. Cf. _Ann. Dunst._, p. 61. [738] _Roy. Lett._, vol. i. pp. 144, 145. [739] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. pp. 254, 255. [740] _Foedera_, I. i. p. 164. [741] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 431 b. Of course it by no means follows that these commissioners got what they went for. [742] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 236. [743] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 429 b. [744] _Roy. Lett._, vol. i. p. 150. [745] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 257. [746] See above, p. 145. [747] We shall find it in his custody in January, 1221. [748] He eventually gave it, not later than 12th March, 1221, to the boy’s maternal uncle, Ranulf of Chester. _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 285. [749] Cf. _ib._ p. 272, and _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 442. [750] Turner, pt. II. pp. 247, 248. [751] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 119. [752] _Ann. Dunst._, p. 64. [753] Turner, pt. II. p. 248. [754] R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 66. Cf. W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 247. [755] R. Wend., _l.c._ He goes on: “Habuit autem, ut dicebatur, hujus factionis incentores Falcasium, Philippum Marc, Petrum de Maloleone” [_recte_ “Malolacu”] “Engelardum de Athie, et alios multos, qui clam miserunt ei viros armatos ut pacem regni turbaret.” But there is not a particle of evidence to indicate that such was the fact, or even that it was suspected at the time; indeed, the evidence of the records disproves the existence of such a suspicion against two of the men named, Philip Marc and Falkes; see Turner, pt. II. p. 254, and _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 448 b. Once again, as in his account of the Newark affair in 1217, Roger is carrying back to an earlier date his recollections of 1223. [756] “Comes de Albomari mense Januario visus est furtive capere castra de Neuwerga, et de Latford, et de Kimbautona; sed turpiter repulsus, accessit ex improvisu ad Fodringham,” etc., says the printed text of _Ann. Dunst._, a. 1221, p. 63. _Visus_ is obviously an error for _nisus_. Newark and Sleaford belonged to the Bishop of Lincoln; Kimbolton to the Earl of Essex. [757] I think this must be the real meaning of the words of Roger of Wendover, (vol. iv. p. 67): “Convenerunt interim magnates Angliae ad regem apud Westmonasterium ut de negotiis regni tractarent; comes vero, qui cum caeteris vocatus fuerat, simulavit se illo ire,” coupled with the safe-conduct until Candlemas granted to Aumale on some day between 15th and 22nd January, 1221, _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 278; cf. _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 446. [758] “Justiciarius Angliae tunc in custodiam habebat,” W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 247. Roger, _l.c._, says “erat tunc castellum in custodia Ranulfi comitis Cestrensis,” but the former is probably right. Cf. Turner, pt. II. p. 252. [759] Cf. R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 67, and _Ann. Dunst._, p. 63. [760] R. Wend., _l.c._ [761] W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 247.