1. Canonist Evidence in the Case of St William of York

¹ The Case of St William of York, by Prof. M. D. Knowles, ante vol. v, no. 2, p. 176.

² The decretal Cum essent in presentia nostra occurs in the following collections: Collectio Cheltenhamensis, B. M. Egerton MS. 2819 f. 88v with an incomplete text; Coll. Wigorniensis, B.M. Royal MS. 10 A II f. 47, analysed by Lohmann, H. in Zeitschrift d. Savigny Stiftung, Kanon. Abteilung 22, LIII (1933), p. 127; Coll. Claustroneoburgensis, no. 206 printed with a faulty text by F. Schönsteiner in Jahrbuch des Stiftes Klosterneuburg, II (1909), p. 94. The address occurs in the Coll. Wigorniensis. The fragment Porro testes to the end has been printed by Friedberg from the Coll. Brugensis in Die Canonessammlungen von Gratian bis Bernhard von Pavia, p. 158, and is included in the Coll. Sangermanensis and the Coll. Abrincensis, both calendered by Singer, H. in his Neue Beiträge zu den Dekretalensammlungen in Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie, phil. hist. Klasse, CLXXI (1913), p. 265. The last two collections give an inscription to the bishop of Chichester and the abbot of Ford. For the literature of the decretal collections see Prof.Holtzmann, W., ‘Über eine Ausgabe der päpstlichen Dekretalen des 12 Jahrhunderts’ in Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, phil. hist. Kl. (1945), P. 15 and Kuttner, S., ‘Notes on a projected Corpus of 12th century Decretals’ in Traditio, VI (1948), p. 345. I have to thank Prof. Holtzmann for kindly reading this note and expressing his agreement with the dating of the decretal.

³ Cf. Early Yorkshire Charters, vi, p. 158, ed. C. T. Clay, and also his ‘Notes on the Early Archdeacons in the Church of York’, in Yorkshire Arch. Journal, xxxiv, p. 9.

⁴ John of Salisbury, ep. 108, ed. Giles, I, p. 158.

⁵ Art. cit. p. 276.

⁶ William of Newburgh, Historia Regum, ed. Howlett, Rolls Series, vol. I.