Note 16 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)
Reading edition
Further, we read in the Annals of Worcester16 and in the Historia Major of M. Paris (ii. 450-451)17 that in 1198, 'circaque festum sancti Michaelis, mutatæ sunt carte quas prius fecerat rex Ricardus, novo sigillo suo'. Now this Michaelmas fell just in the heart of the period within which the process of confirmation is proved to have been going on.