Note 869 — Chapter IV · TUTORS AND GOVERNORS 1221–1223

This is Ralf of Coggeshall’s account of Louis’s reply: “Coronatus antequam nuncii praedicti ad eum pervenirent, de tali petitione responsum dare distulit, inducias petens de responso usque ad octabas Omnium Sanctorum,” p. 197. Roger of Wendover (vol. iv. p. 86) and the Ann. Dunst. (p. 82) represent Louis as giving an answer which must, it would seem, have put an end to all further hope of agreement, and which I therefore think must really have been made not to the bishops who went to him in August, but to another set of episcopal envoys who went in October, as will be seen later.