Note 765 — Chapter V · GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET AND STEPHEN OF BLOIS. 1128–1139.
Reading edition
Flor. Worc. Contin. (as above)·/·(Thorpe), vol. ii., p. 106. The writer adds that on the very day of Stephen’s departure (June 15) Geoffrey set fire to everything beyond the Wye; seven or eight Welshmen perished, but no English (ib. p. 107)—an indication that the part of Hereford beyond the Wye was then a Welsh quarter.