Note 874 — Chapter V · THE ANGEVIN EMPIRE. 1175–1183.
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Richard of Ilchester is well known as an active official of the Exchequer; see below, pp. 193, 194. Geoffrey Ridel seems to have acted as vice-chancellor throughout S. Thomas’s primacy and exile; see Eyton, Itin. Hen. II., p. 174, note 1. As for John of Oxford, his diplomatic talents are only too notorious.