Chapter III: The Legation of Pandulf (4)

[798] Early in the year it seems to have been arranged that Henry and Alexander should meet at Lincoln on 7th June; but the place and day were changed to York and 14th June (_Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 476), and the meeting was ultimately postponed till 19th June.

[799] _Ann. Dunst._, pp. 68, 69. Hubert (and of course Henry) was at Oxford 9th June, Northampton 11th, Nottingham 14th, Blyth 15th, and York 19th; _Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 461 b, 462.

[800] _Chron. Melrose_ and _Chron. Lanercost_, a. 1221. M. Paris, _Chron. Maj._, vol. iii. p. 66, gives the date as 25th June, which the _Close Roll_, vol. i. p. 463, shows to be incompatible with the movements of the English court. Alexander’s settlement of dowerlands upon Joan--“sponsae nostrae dilectae”--is dated York, 18th June; _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 309.

[801] W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 249.

[802] Cf. _ib._ p. 250, and _Flores Hist._, vol. ii. p. 172; the date comes from the latter.

[803] He went after Michaelmas, 1220, _Ann. Dunst._, p. 64, “propter quaedam negotia Anglicanae Ecclesiae,” W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 246.

[804] He reached England about 15th August; W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 250.

[805] _Ann. Dunst._, p. 74.

[806] The Continuator of Florence of Worcester, a. 1221, (p. 173), says that Pandulf “a legationis officio revocatur.” This phrase need not exclude a voluntary resignation; he may have been recalled at his own request. No papal letters on the subject are extant; it is probable that Pandulf, like Gualo, asked permission to lay down an office which seems never to have been much to his taste; and it is even possible that he may have made his request through Stephen.