Note 656 — Chapter III · THE LEGATION OF PANDULF 1219–1221

Isabel’s demand is curiously worded: “Precamur vos diligenter quod ei [i.e., Hugoni] reddatis jus suum, scilicet Niortum, Castrum Exonense, et de Rokingham, et tria millia et quingentas marcas quas pater vester, maritus quondam noster, nobis legavit” (Roy. Lett., vol. i. p. 115). The mention of Rockingham should probably run “et villam de Rokingham.” The lands bestowed by John upon Isabel in dower consisted of the city of Saintes, Niort, Saumur, La Flèche, Beaufort, Baugy, Château-du-Loir, “Trov” (Charter Rolls, pp. 74 b, 75), the city and fair of Exeter, the towns of Ilchester, Wilton, Malmesbury, Chichester, Queenhithe, and Waltham, the honour of Berkhamsted, the county of Rutland, and the town of Rockingham, Falaise, Domfront, Bonneville-sur-Toucques, and all the lands which had belonged to the dowry of his mother Queen Eleanor (ib. 128).