Note 834 — Chapter IV · HENRY AND THE BARONS. 1166–1175.

The treaty, as given in Gesta Hen. and Rog. Howden (see above, note 5{832}), is printed also in Rymer’s Fœdera, vol. i. p. 30, with the addition of a date—Falaise—and the signatures of twenty-eight witnesses. Among the latter is Geoffrey, bishop elect of Lincoln. Now we know from R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 393, that Geoffrey came over from England to Normandy on October 8. R. Diceto (ib. p. 394) gives the date of the meeting at which the treaty was made as October 11. Is it not probable that he has substituted for the date of the making of the treaty that of its formal ratification at Falaise?