Note 1303 — Chapter VI · THE LAST YEARS OF HENRY II. 1183–1189.

Rog. Howden as above. Hist. de Guill. le Mar., v. 3639 (as above). Bishop Stubbs (Rog. Howden, vol. ii. pref. p. lxviii) says “he returned to Azai,” and makes the reading of the fatal list take place there, before Henry went on to Chinon (ib. p. lxx). This seems to be the meaning of Gir. Cambr. De Instr. Princ., dist. iii. c. 25 (Angl. Christ. Soc., p. 148). But Gerald evidently thought Henry had been at Azay ever since the Friday, just as William of Armorica (Philipp., l. iii., Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Scriptt., vol. v. p. 134) thought he had been all the while at Chinon; whereas the Gesta and Roger shew that both are wrong in this. On the other hand, the Life of William the Marshal seems distinctly to shew that the place where Henry went to lodge before the meeting at Colombières was not Azay, but Ballan; and it also tells us that he went straight back from Colombières to Chinon, and there read the list. In the absence of further elucidations, I venture to follow this version.