[412] The various accounts of the money paid (or promised) to Louis are extremely puzzling. The Chronicle of Melrose, a. 1217, p. 131, gives the total as ten thousand pounds. The Dunstable Annals, p. 51, say that Louis left his Marshal in England “pro quindecim millibus marcarum recipiendo, quas pro reragiis tenseriarum et expensis quas fecerat promiserunt”--this verb has no nominative, but the king’s guardians seem to be meant. The _Hist. Ducs_, p. 204, after summarizing the treaty, says Louis was to have “deseure tout chou, x m. marcs d’estrelins por l’arierage de ses rentes que il n’ot pas euues, et pour la desconfiture de Nicole vii m. mars; che fu xvii m. mars par tout.” (For the first _marcs_ the MS. followed in the printed text has _livres_, but the other has _marcs_, which is obviously the right reading; see the editor’s note 1, _l.c._). M. Petit-Dutaillis, _Vie de Louis VIII_, p. 176, note 2, takes the marks promised to Louis as marks sterling. But the document on which he relies for this interpretation of the sum (_ib._ p. 512) is a statement of the king’s debt to Florence of S. Omer, not of his debt to Louis. The letter of 6th November, 1218, which does specify the sum due to Louis, says nothing about marks sterling; it calls them simply “marks.” Reading the Dunstable Annals and the _Hist. Ducs_ by the light of the king’s letter, one is led to think that the monk’s “fifteen thousand marks” are made up of the king’s ten thousand marks “pro bono pacis” (= “pro expensis quas fecerat [Ludovicus]” = “pour la desconfiture de Nicole”), and five (instead of seven) thousand “pro reragiis,” “pour l’arierage de ses rentes,” the amounts given for the indemnity and for the arrears having been reversed (and the latter perhaps exaggerated) by the Flemish historian. [413] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 94. [414] _Ib._ p. 114. [415] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 115. [416] _Ib._ p. 168, 30th August, 1218. [417] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 369 b. [418] _Ib._ pp. 383, 388 b. [419] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 125. [420] _Ib._ p. 284. [421] “Scutagium positum de novo per consilium commune comitum et baronum nostrorum Angliæ,” 10th November, 1217, _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 125; “per commune consilium regni nostri,” 30th October, 1217, _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 371: “de carrucagio et hydagio quod assisum fuit per consilium regni nostri,” 9th January, 1218, _ib._ p. 348 b. Tallage to be taken from the towns and from the royal demesnes, _ib._ pp. 349, 359, 364, 370; _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 170, 171.