[240] They were Simon de Langton, Archdeacon of Canterbury and brother of the Primate; Gervase of Hobrigg, Dean of S. Paul’s, London; Robert of S. Germain, a clerk of the King of Scots; and Master Elias, a clerk of the Archbishop of Canterbury. From the beginning of the war these men had set the Papal authority at defiance, and they were now preaching at Paul’s Cross to the people and “giving them to understand that the Royalists were excommunicate and that Louis and his men were good folk, wrongfully excommunicated by the Pope.” _Hist. Ducs_, pp. 197, 198. See the Archbishop of Tyre’s letter in _Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. xix. pp. 636, 637, and cf. _Hist. Ducs_, p. 198, and W. Cov., vol. ii., p. 238. [241] They had a safe-conduct to the sea on 21st June; _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 70, 71. [242] Before 22nd June; _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 71. [243] _Foedera_, I. i. p. 147. [244] They were there 1–6 July; _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 77–79. [245] _Hist. Ducs_, p. 198. [246] R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 27. [247] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17085–103. The monstrous version of Philip’s speech given by M. Paris, _Hist. Angl._, vol. ii. p. 216, is beneath notice except as an illustration of Matthew’s own character as an historian. [248] R. Wend., vol. iv. pp. 27, 28. See also the curious story in _Récits d’un Ménestrel de Reims_, pp. 157, 158. [249] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17117–24. Cf. _Ann. Dunst._, p. 50. [250] One hundred, _Hist. Ducs_, p. 198; three hundred, R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 28. [251] _Hist. Ducs_, pp. 198, 199. [252] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 336, 314 b, 317, 336 b. [253] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 71; _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 314. [254] Petit-Dutaillis, p. 157. See especially _Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 310–312. [255] August 7–13; _Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 317 b–319 b. [256] Reading, August 14th; Farnham, August 15th. _Ib._ p. 320. [257] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17167–210. Of this, again, Matthew Paris (_Hist. Angl._, vol. ii. pp. 217, 218) has a version which is obviously a mere romance of his own, devised--as needlessly as clumsily--to exalt Hubert de Burgh at the expense of the Marshal. [258] Son of Warren’s sister; see _Hist. Ducs_, p. 200. [259] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17262–85. [260] So say Roger of Wendover, vol. iv. p. 28, and the _Hist. Ducs_, _l.c._ The Marshal’s biographer, ll. 17293–4, says three hundred, but this does not tally with our accounts of the smallness of the force which the fleet had to bring over. [261] “Batellies.” [262] _Hist. Ducs_, _l.c._ [263] See the list in _Hist. Ducs_, p. 201. [264] Cf. _Hist. Ducs_, _l.c._, and _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17160, 17290–91, and 17365–76. [265] _Hist. Ducs_, _l.c._ [266] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17286–90. [267] _Hist. Ducs_, _l.c._ [268] Cf. _Hist. Ducs_, _l.c._, _Ann. Wav._, a. 1217, _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17214–15, and R. Wend., _l.c._ [269] _Hist. G. le Mar._, ll. 17234–44. [270] _Ib._ ll. 17245–56.