Note 1 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)

When Mr Richard Howlett, in the preface to his edition of the Gesta Stephani for the Rolls series, announced that we were indebted to its 'careful author' for the knowledge of an invasion of England by Henry FitzEmpress in 1147, 'unrecorded by any other chronicler', and endeavoured at considerable length to establish this proposition,1 it was received, from all that I can learn, with general incredulity. As, however, in the volume which he has since edited, he reiterates his belief in this alleged invasion,2 it becomes necessary to examine in detail the evidence for a discovery so authoritatively announced in the pages of the Rolls series.