Note 614 — Chapter III · THE LEGATION OF PANDULF 1219–1221

W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 244. There must have been many present who had seen three coronations before Henry’s accession—those of Richard in 1189 and 1195, and that of John in 1199. The Ann. Dunst., p. 57, mention a detail which would have a special significance for those who remembered Richard’s first crowning: “Judaei vero in Turri Lundoniarum servabantur interim ad cautelam.” Roger of Wendover, vol. iv. p. 63, says the crowning was at Canterbury, but he is certainly wrong. Cf. Hist. Ducs, p. 208, and R. Coggeshall, p. 187. T. Wykes, a. 1220, says: “Sane quia propter aetatis teneritudinem nondum sufficiens fuerat [rex] ad regni gubernaculum, totius regni proceres providebant sibi tutorem et custodem, virum summi discretionis et probitatis, dominum Hubertum de Burgo, qui motus regis voluntarios refraenaret, ne forte per immoderantiam lasciviret; factusque est justiciarius totius Angliae, ut sua prudentia, qua caeteris praepollebat, regis et regni negotia dispensaret.” And the Bermondsey Annals, a. 1220, say: “Hoc anno Hubertus de Burgo factus est justiciarius totius Angliae,” while the Waverley Annals make a like statement under the date 1219. These entries seem to be all derived from a common source, and based upon a mistake. There is superabundant documentary evidence that Hubert had been justiciar uninterruptedly ever since 1215; if he had not been reappointed at Henry’s accession, there could be no reason and no occasion for him to be reappointed now; and his own words in 1239, as given in the Responsiones, p. 64, distinctly imply that nothing of the kind had ever taken place.