Note 686 — Chapter III · THE LEGATION OF PANDULF 1219–1221

Close Rolls, vol. i. pp. 356, 367, 367 b, &c. The exact date at which she recovered the castle does not appear; probably it was not very long before the date of the first of these entries, 17th March, 1218; for on 13th November, 1218, we find an order to the Treasury for payment to Earl William of what he spent “per visum et testimonium legalium hominum in reparacione castri Lincolniae tempore pacis,” ib. p. 383. If he had delivered the castle to its Dame immediately on receipt of the King’s order to do so, at the beginning of November, 1217, he would not have had much time for its repair tempore pacis, the peace having been made on 12th September.