Note 356 — Chapter II · THE REGENCY OF WILLIAM THE MARSHAL 1216–1219
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It may even have been given to him purposely, by consent of the real Justiciar, in order to enable him to undertake certain administrative functions specially attached to the chief Justiciar’s office, while Hubert was—as he said himself in 1239—so busy at Dover that “a castro non potuit recedere nec officium justiciarii exercere”; Responsiones, p. 65.