Note 1256 — Chapter VI · THE LAST YEARS OF HENRY II. 1183–1189.

Besides Bartholomew (whom most of the English writers of the time call William) there had been with him throughout the spring the archbishops of Canterbury and Rouen; Gir. Cambr. De Instr. Princ., dist. iii. c. 13 (Angl. Christ. Soc., pp. 115, 116). It is clear that Bartholomew stayed with him to the end, for he buried him. But we hear nothing more of either Baldwin of Canterbury or Walter of Rouen, except that Baldwin was at Rouen two or three days before Henry’s death; Epp. Cant. cccxi. (Stubbs), p. 296. See Bishop Stubbs’s preface to Rog. Howden, vol. ii. p. lxi, note 1. Of the laymen more later.