Note 2192 — Chapter X · THE NEW ENGLAND. 1170–1206.

See the various accounts of the invention and translation of Arthur in Gir. Cambr. Spec. Eccles., dist. ii. cc. 9, 10 (Brewer, vol. iv. pp. 48–51), and De Instr. Princ. (Angl. Christ. Soc.), pp. 191, 192; R. Coggeshall (Stevenson), p. 36; Rog. Wend. (Coxe), vol. iii. p. 48, and Ann. Margam, a. 1190 (Luard, Ann. Monast., vol. i. pp. 21, 22). Gerald seems to have been present himself. He tells us the “translation” was made by the king’s order; and indeed his account, taken by itself, would leave an impression that the whole thing occurred during King Henry’s lifetime; but R. Coggeshall and Rog. Wend. both distinctly give the date, 1191; the Margam Annals place it only a year earlier; and in both those years the reigning king was far away.