418 THE FORGERY OF FINES July factis et appositis circa arraiacionem Rotulorum et memorandorum pre- dictorum, videlicet ; Roberto de Sybthorp' vni Camerariorum de Recepta x. marcas, Radulpho de Kesteuen' clerico Thesanrarii x. marcas, Willelmo Lokyngton', Thome Wytewang et lohanni Innocent clericis de eadem Recepta, cuilibet eorum, c.s., lohanni Neubold, lohanni Clisseby et Radulpho Branktre clericis de Recepta, et Thome Durant vni Numera- torum de eadem Recepta, cuilibet eorum, v. marcas, et Thome Restwold' alteri Numeratorum de eadem Recepta xl.s., et lohanni Askam et lohanni Maundeware valletis laborantibus circa emendationem dictarum Thesau- riarum, remocionem librorum et aliorum diuersorum necessariorum dictam arraiacionem contingenciuem apud Westmonasterium et Turrim Londonie per tempus predictum, videlicet, dicto lohanni de Askham x.s. et predicto lohanni Maundeware xiij.s. iiijd. de dono Regis pro labore suo, et Henrico Coppandale clerico xxvj.s. viijd. existenti super eandem arraiacionem per tempus predictum, per consideracionem Thesaurarii et Camerariorum ....... xlvj li iijs. iiijd. In denariis solutis per manus Ibhannis Buk et lohannis Askham pro expensis Roberti de Sybthorp' Camerarii de Scaccario, Radulphi de Kesteuen' clerici Thesaurarii, Willelmi de Lokyngton' et aliorum diuer- sorum clericorum et ministrorum de Recepta Scaccarii predictorum existencium apud Westmonasterium et Turrim Londonie per tres septi- manas tempore quadragesime vltimo preterito circa arraiacionem et emendacionem Rotulorum, Recordorum et omnium aliorum memorandorum in custodia Thesaurarii et Camerariorum de Scaccario in Thesaurariis Regis infra Abbatiam Westmonasterii et Turrim predictam existencium, et pro aliis minutis expensis factis tempore arraiacionis predicte vt patet per particulas remanentes in hanaperio de hoc termino, per con- sideracionem Thesaurarii et Camerariorum . . . . xijtixjs. Comitatus Pallacii Mr. Lapsley points out that in the thirteenth century the word
- palatine ', borrowed from the Continent, was beginning to be
used in EngUsh writings to describe regalian privileges.^ No precise significance can be attached, however, to its use, once by Bracton ^ and once by Matthew Paris.* Even its first appearance in a quasi- legal record,* namely in Bracton's notes on the proceedings ' The County Palatine of Durham, pp. 8-11- Mr. Lapsley here collects the earliest references to the word in England. He regards the word as entirely exotic until the thirteenth century. A reference to William FitzOsbem as comes palatii. which he omits although it emphasizes his point, is foimd in a charter of William 1 to the abbey of the Holy Trinity (or Mont Sainte Catherine), Rouen {Cal- of Documents in France, 918-1206, no. 77). I am indebted for this reference to Dr. James Tait. This charter is printed in full in the Cartulaire de V Abbaye de la Sainte Triniti du Mont de Rouen, which follows the Cartulaire de St.-Bertin (in Documents irUdita), p. 455. It comes from a twelfth-century cartulary, and is therefore good evidence. See Stein, Bibliographie Genirale des Cartulaires FranQais, p. 443.
- De Legibus, ii. 290; * Chronica Maiora, iii 337-8.
« Bracton's Note-book, na 1273, p. 282.
