Note 555 — Chapter III · THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND. 795–1172.
Reading edition
They sent him “litteras suas in modum cartæ extra sigillum pendentes:” Gesta Hen. (as above), p. 26. Cf. Rog. Howden (as above), pp. 30, 31. This is however placed by both writers some time before the council. See above, p. 114, note 6{549}.