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ssss1. R. Wendover, III. 298.

ssss1. Blackstone, Great Charter, p. xiii., citing the Annals of Dunstable (p. 43), says they were absolved at Wallingford by a Canon of Durham.

ssss1. The Charter appears Rot. Chart., p. 207. Cf. under chapter ssss1 infra, where the rights of the Londoners are discussed.

ssss1. The writ is given in Rot. Pat., 1. 141, and also in New Rymer, I. 128.

ssss1. For writ, see Rot. Claus., 204.

ssss1. Some authorities give 24th May as the date. It must have been the 17th; since New Rymer, p. 121, under the date of 18th May, prints a writ of John, informing Rowland Blaot of the surrender of London to the barons. This was followed on 20th May (N.R., p. 121) by another royal writ, ordering all bailiffs and other faithful, to molest the Londoners in every way possible.

ssss1. III. 301.

ssss1. Const. Hist., I. 581-3.

ssss1. The individual names may be read in Stubbs, Ibid.; and readers in search of biographical knowledge are referred to Bémont, Chartes, 39–40, and for fuller, though less reliable information, to Thomson, Magna Charta, 270–322.