Note 173 — PART III. MAGNA CARTA: ITS FORM AND CONTENTS.

Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 6. Mr. Round, ibid., p. 438, explains that the reason of the omission from this earlier charter of Stephen (unlike the more lengthy and important one which followed four months later) of all mention of the Church was that Stephen, at the time of granting, supplemented it by the verbal promise recorded by William of Malmesbury, de libertate reddenda ecclesiae et conservanda.