Note 1090 — Chapter VIII · HENRY DUKE OF THE NORMANS. 1149–1154.

“The person meant was no doubt that Matthew who is called Henry’s chancellor in Foliot’s letters.” Stubbs, Gerv. Cant., vol. i. p. 125, note 2. (“Master Matthew, the chancellor,” is named in Gilb. Foliot, Ep. cli., Giles, vol. i. pp. 201, 202). In his Lect. on Med. and Mod. Hist., p. 120, Bishop Stubbs speaks of Matthew as the king’s “tutor, who was some time his chancellor, and who probably was identical with the Bishop of Angers, Matthew of London.” Bishop Matthew of Angers is described by the editors of Gall. Christ. (vol. xiv. col. 570) as a native of Loudun—“Losduni natus.” He was consecrated in 1155, which seems hardly to leave time for his chancellorship.