Note 677 — Chapter IV · HENRY AND THE BARONS. 1166–1175.
Reading edition
Gesta Hen. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 45. Jordan Fantosme, vv. 268, 269 (Michel, p. 14) adds Carlisle and Westmoreland to the young king’s offers, and relates at great length how William hesitated before accepting them, how he sent envoys to the elder king begging for a new cession of Northumberland from him, and only upon Henry’s defiant refusal, and after long debate with his own barons, entered upon the war. Ib. vv. 372–426 (pp. 14–22).