Note 959 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227
Reading edition
Matthew Paris’s assertion “Instillatum quippe fuerat illis in auribus secreto quod si prompta voluntate ea [scil. castra] regi ilico resignassent, statim illis redderet resignata” (Hist. Angl., vol. ii. p. 261) may be taken for what his uncorroborated assertions are usually worth.