[1223]
“Nutu divino et cooperante Theodbaldo Cantuariensi archiepiscopo.”
Gerv.
Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 159.
[1224]
Eng. Chron. a. 1154.
Cf.
Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 40 (Arnold, p. 291).
[1225]
Gerv. Cant. as above.
Rob. Torigni, a. 1154,
gives the date as December 7.
Most likely the crossing was made, as seems to have been the usual practice
with Henry at least, in the night.
[1226]
“Hostreham,”
Gerv. Cant. as above.
“Apud Noveforest,”
Hen. Hunt.
as above;
which Mr. Arnold glosses in the margin “Lymington.”
[1228]
The Chron. S. Albin. a. 1154 (Marchegay, Eglises, p. 38)
says: “xiv kalendas
januarii apud Wintoniam rex consecratur, et Natale Domini celebrans Londoniæ,
cum uxore coronatur.” But the English writers mention only one crowning,
at Westminster.
The Eng. Chron. a. 1154,
says Henry was “to king blessed
in London on the Sunday before Midwinter-day.”
Rob. Torigni ad ann.,
R. Diceto (Stubbs, vol. i. p. 299),
Chron. de Bello (Angl. Christ. Soc., p. 72),
Ann. S. Aug. Cant.ad ann. (Liebermann, Geschichtsquellen, p. 82),
all give the same date;
Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs, vol. i. p. 159)
makes it December 17, but as he
also calls it the Sunday before Christmas, he evidently means 19.
Hen. Hunt.,
l. viii. c. 40 (Arnold, pp. 291, 292),
greets the new king with some hexameter
verses, and then adds: “Et jam regi novo novus liber donandus est.” But the
book, if it was ever written, is lost.