Note 712 — Chapter III · THE LEGATION OF PANDULF 1219–1221

The Barnwell annalist’s account of this affair (W. Cov., l.c.) suggests a possibility that Aumale’s deputy constable at Rockingham may have been more forward than Aumale himself to resist the King, and in fact gone beyond the count’s orders in shutting the gates. Mr. Turner thinks the statement of Roger of Wendover (vol. iv, p. 65) that the two castles were found “penitus omnia victualium genere destituta, ita quidem quod nec etiam tres panes invenirentur in eis,” “suggests that the count had been misrepresented by the letters patent of November, 1219, which recited that he was fortifying the castles and storing them with corn” (Turner, pt. II. p. 242). I cannot follow this argument; to me a statement as to the contents of a place in June, 1220, conveys no suggestion whatever as to the contents of that place in November, 1219.