Note 1141 — Chapter VI · THE LAST YEARS OF HENRY II. 1183–1189.

Ib. p. 335. They had come through France, and had been received in Paris by Philip on January 16; Rigord (Duchesne, Hist. Franc. Scriptt., vol. v.), p. 14. They were at Canterbury on January 29, and it seems that even the Patriarch of Jerusalem, with the very keys of the Sepulchre itself in his hands, thought it well to stop and pay his devotions at the martyr’s tomb; Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 325. A third envoy, the Grand Master of the Temple, had died on the way at Verona; Gesta Hen. as above, p. 331; R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 32.