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ssss1. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. 328-9, and authorities there cited.

ssss1. See Appendix.

ssss1. Const. Hist., I. 331.

ssss1. See Prothero, Simon de Montfort, 16: “That charter had been mainly of a feudal character; it contained no provision for, and scarcely even hinted at, a constitutional form of government.”

ssss1. Details are reserved for consideration under the feudal clauses of the Great Charter.

ssss1. See Round, Feudal England, 227, and Pollock and Maitland, I. 306.

ssss1. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. 345.

ssss1. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 1.

ssss1. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 6. Mr. Round, ibid., p. 438, explains that the reason of the omission from this earlier charter of Stephen (unlike the more lengthy and important one which followed four months later) of all mention of the Church was that Stephen, at the time of granting, supplemented it by the verbal promise recorded by William of Malmesbury, de libertate reddenda ecclesiae et conservanda.

ssss1. The whole incident is so remarkable that it seems well to cite the exact words of William of Malmesbury, II. 541: “Itaque homagium regi fecit sub conditione quadam, scilicet quamdiu ille dignitatem suam integre custodiret et sibi pacta servaret.”