Note 1307 — Chapter VII · JOHN LACKLAND 1215–1216

R. Wendover, vol. iii. p. 385. The long account inserted by Matthew Paris in his Hist. Angl. (vol. ii. p. 193)—not, it is to be observed, in his Chron. Maj.—of John’s forgiveness of the barons and good advice to his heir is evidently intended for the edification of Henry III. and of posterity, and if it has any foundation at all, it is inserted in a wrong place; for it is put after John’s last Communion, whereas the abbot obviously must have insisted upon John’s declaring himself to be in charity with all men (the barons, by implication at least, included) before he gave him the Sacrament.