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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
At the introduction of the Feudal system into England, Bristol (which was a walled town before the Anglo-Saxon period) contained several different fiefs; these were all included in the Honour of Gloucester, the Earls † or Consuls of which exercised over their province an authority that was regal in everything save the name.
page 241 note * Constantine the Great surrounded it with a wall and gates.—Seyer, p. 216. Portions of this wall and one-third of the Pomerium still remain.
page 241 note † Hallam, , “Middle Ages,” Vol. II., 274, 275Google Scholar; Kemble's Glossary to “Beowulf.” Earl, a synonyme for a Governor of a County or Province: Selden's, “Titles,” Vol. III., p. 638Google Scholar.
page 241 note ‡ Evans's, “History of Bristol,” p. 28Google Scholar; “Monumenta Historiea Britannica;” “Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,” pp. 445, 446.
page 242 note * “Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,” p. 458.
page 242 note † Matilda hated Brictric, because he had refused to marry her when sent on an embassage to her father, Count Baldwin; hence he was imprisoned and his estates confiscated to her use.—“Monk of Tewkesbury” (Dugdale); “Leland Itin.,” 678.
page 242 note ‡ Barrett, p. 206.
page 242 note § Ibid., p. 208; Leland, 6, 79, Monk of Tewkesbury and Robert of Gloucester.
page 242 note ∥ Seyer, pp. 372, 454, 492; Isaacson's Saturni Ephemerides, ccccxliii.
page 242 note ¶ Hovedon, p. 544. “About midsummer the Earl of Gloster surrendered his castle of Bristow, of which until now the King was never able to obtain possession.” —Brompton Chronicles.
page 242 note ** Evans, p. 48. “To Hugh Bardulf.” —Seyer, , p. 503Google Scholar.
page 242 note †† “Dugdale Monast.,” Vol. I., p. 155. This Charter is now in the Bristol Council Chamber.
page 243 note * “Chartulary of St. Augustine,” fol. 33, and sundry Deeds in Bristol; Seyer's Memoirs.
page 243 note † “Encyc. Brit.,” Art. “Feudal System;” Hallam's, “Middle Ages,” Vol. II., p. 315Google Scholar.
page 243 note ‡ Bristol Charter, Ed. III. “ From time of which there is no memory.”
page 243 note § Evans, p. 74.
page 243 note ∥ Carta 5, Ed. III.
page 243 note ¶ Seyer's “ Memoirs of Bristol.”
page 244 note * Charter of Henry II.
page 244 note † Charter placing the city of Dublin within the liberties of Bristol.
page 244 note ‡ John, Earl of Moreton's Charter as Lord of the Honour of Gloucester.
page 245 note * Henry III. confirms the above.
page 245 note † Most of them are lodged in the Tower.
page 245 note ‡ Evans, p. 56, Charter in the Tower.
page 245 note § Tower.
page 245 note ∥ Tower.
page 245 note ¶ “Our said burgesses of Redclive, in the suburbs of Bristol, shall for ever answer with our burgesses of Bristol before our Justices, &c, &c, &c.”
page 246 note * Seyer's Memoirs, Vol. II., chap. 14.
page 247 note * “Rot. Orig.,” 15 r. 15, Seyer, , Vol. II., 108Google Scholar.
page 247 note † These four charters are preserved in the Tower.