Note 1006 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227
Reading edition
This date is from Roger of Wendover, vol. iv. p. 94. The Dunstable annalist, l.c., says “octavis Pentecostes”; but on that day—9th June, Trinity Sunday—the King was a long way from Northampton; royal letters are dated at Winchester on 8th and 10th June, at Wallingford on 13th and 15th June, and the court did not reach Northampton till the 16th; Close Rolls, vol. i. pp. 604 b, 605.