[910] M. Paris, _Chron. Maj._, vol. iii. pp. 77, 78, and _Hist. Angl._, vol. ii. p. 257, connect Louis’s complaint of the non-observance of treaty and charters with the execution of Constantine. [911] This is indicated by an agreement made in 1222 with the Irish King Donell of Thomond that the ferm due from him to the English Crown should be reduced from a hundred and thirty to a hundred marks a year “until our coming of age,” in consideration of a fine of two hundred marks; _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 336, 337. In other words, Hubert, being in want of ready money for the needs of the state, borrowed from Donell in Henry’s name two hundred marks, to be repaid in instalments by the deduction of thirty marks a year from the ferm of Thomond till the repayment should be completed; which would be (roughly) in 1228. [912] _Ann. Wav._ and _Dunst._, a. 1222. [913] _Ann. Tewkesb._, a. 1238. [914] M. Paris, _Chron. Maj._, vol. iii. p. 490. [915] Hubert de Burgh in 1239 said “Episcopus Wintoniensis misit Romam W. de S. Albino” [the reporter of his words, a S. Alban’s man, made the name “S. Albano,” but it was really Saint-Aubin] “pro dicto negotio,” _i.e._, to get the King declared of age; _Responsiones_, M. Paris, _Chron. Maj._, vol. vi. p. 69. If so, Honorius waited a long while before acting on the suggestion; for Master William de St.-Aubin was accredited as the King’s proctor at Rome on 25th March, 1222 (_Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 328), and was back in England before 30th October, when he was sent on a mission to Poitou which lasted till the very time at which the Pope’s mandates about the majority were issued, April, 1223 (_Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 518, 541). Moreover, the letter accrediting William to the Pope is attested not by Peter, but by Hubert. [916] Cf. R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 88, R. Coggeshall, p. 203, and Louis’s assertion quoted above, p. 198. [917] _Foedera_, I. i. p. 168. [918] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 569. [919] “Quodamodo sibi dispositionem regni sui dimittetis liberam et quietam, terras et castra quae tenetis custodiae nomine sine difficultate qualibet resignetis eidem, et resignare procuretis ab aliis qui terras et castra ipsius simili modo tenent.” [920] See Note VII. [921] More literally, “not to the point that it [_i.e._ the disposition] could be maintained by any one in a law-suit.” I have to thank Mr. R. L. Poole for these renderings of the Dunstable annalist’s words (a. 1223, p. 83): “Postmodum vero, regis exercitu recedente, baronibus apud Londoniam convocatis, de mandato domini Papae et assensu baronum provisum est, et provisio publicata, quod ipse rex haberet legitimam aetatem quantum ad liberam dispositionem de castris et terris et gwardiis suis; non autem quoad hoc ut in placito posset ab aliquo communiri.”