Note 816 — Chapter IV · HENRY AND THE BARONS. 1166–1175.

Gesta Hen. as above. R. Diceto as above, p. 384, dates the surrender of these three castles July 22—i.e. just as Henry was leaving Huntingdon for Suffolk. The chronology of the Gesta seems much more probable. See in Will. Newb., l. ii. c. 37 (as above, pp. 194, 195), how Henry frightened the constables into submission. Jordan Fantosme, vv. 2039–2046 (Michel, p. 92), has a different story about Leicester. He makes David of Huntingdon its commandant, and says that as soon as Henry received the news of the Scot king’s capture, he forwarded it to David with a summons to surrender; whereupon David gave up Leicester castle and himself both at once.