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XI. “Itinerarium Johannis Regis Angliæ.” A Table of the Movements of the Court of John King of England, from his Coronation, May 27th, A.D. 1199, to the end of his Reign: selected from the Attestations of Records preserved upon the Rolls in the Tower of London, by Thomas Duffus Hardy, Esq. F.S.A. Communicated in a Letter to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Thomas Duffus Hardy Esq.
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Extract

Should you consider the enclosed Paper to be of sufficient interest, and worthy of the attention of the Society of Antiquaries, you will oblige me by presenting it to them.

Though during the reign of King John several events transpired of sufficient importance to render it highly interesting, our historians have taken but little labour to clear that period from the obscurity in which it is involved. My endeavour in this is to dissipate the clouds which have so long overshadowed this portion of our history:

“Clara—præpandere lumina menti,

Res quibus occultas penitus convisere possis.”

I shall commence by noticing some particulars, which will, I flatter myself, render it alike valuable to the Historian and the Antiquary.

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Archaeologia , Volume 22 , 1829 , pp. 124 - 160
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1826

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page 124 note a Lucret. lib. i. 1. 145.

page 125 note b It may here be worthy of remark, that the Court stopped, with a few exceptions, at some place in which the King had an interest, as either a castle, royal manor, or at some religious house, in order that he might consume the provisions due to him in lieu of rent from those places.

page 125 note c The Rolls for the eleventh and twelfth years of this reign are wanting.

page 126 note d Most of the ancient Historians agree that Prince Arthur was made away with, but how, where, or on what day, they mention not. The Author of the Annals of Margañ is the only one I have met with who fixes the day. In recounting the above transaction modern Historians have followed his date.

page 127 note e Matthew Paris throughout the whole of this reign follows Hoveden in beginning the year on Christmas-day.

page 129 note a Doncaster, as appears in the Domesday Survey, was held by the Earl of Mortaine. King John had it in right of his first wife Isabel.

page 129 note b Bolsover Castle, &c. was granted to Johnin 1189, by his brother Richard.

page 129 note c Portchester Castle was ordered to be destroyed in Henry the Third's time.

page 131 note d The King of Scotland did homage to king Johnon 22nd November 1200, according to Hoveden.

page 131 note e John held the manor of Cranbourne in right of his first wife Isabel.

page 131 note f Louth Abbey, built in 1139, by the Bishop of Lincoln.

page 131 note g The Manor of Egton was also held by King John in right of his first wife Isabel.

page 132 note i Hoveden relates p. 462, that in his first year, 1201, John was royally entertained at Paris.

page 138 note i Portchester Castle was ordered to be destroyed in Henry the Third's time.

page 138 note k Faringdon manor was given to John to found a monastery there in 1204.

page 139 note l John gave his palace at Dunstable to the prior and convent there in 1204.

page 144 note m King John built this abbey in 1204.