Note 928 — Chapter IV · TUTORS AND GOVERNORS 1221–1223

Cf. the summons in Pat. Rolls, vol. i. pp. 481, 482, and R. Wend., vol. iv. p. 93. Nothing is said of Walter de Lacy or Ralf Musard, whom we should have expected to find in the malcontents’ camp, if they were free to join it. Most likely they were not so; Ralf was, so far as we know, still the responsible custodian of Gloucester castle, where Hubert now had him safe under his own eyes; and a letter close of 16th November shows that Walter was “detained in England in the King’s service” (Close Rolls, vol. i. p. 575 b)—probably in actual attendance on the King and thus under the surveillance of the Justiciar.