Note 936 — Chapter V · THE ANGEVIN EMPIRE. 1175–1183.
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Except, of course, the immediate personal friends of the archbishop, to whom he seems to have been even more obnoxious than the “archidiabolus” Geoffrey Ridel—that is, supposing Mr. Eyton to be right in his theory that Richard of Ilchester is the person designated in the private letters of Thomas and his friends as “Luscus.” Canon Robertson, however, took “Luscus” to mean Richard de Lucy; but the other interpretation seems on the whole more probable.