Note 798 — Chapter IV · HENRY AND THE BARONS. 1166–1175.
Reading edition
Ib.·/·Will. Newb., l. ii. c. 35 (Howlett, vol. i. (pp. 189, 190). On the coincidence of time see Mr. Howlett’s note 3, p. 188. Cf. the more detailed, but far less vivid version of the story in Jordan Fantosme, vv. 1956–2029 (Michel, pp. 88–92). In the Gesta Hen. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 72, Henry is said to have received the news on July 18. Taken in conjunction with the story given above, this must mean the night of July 17–18.