406 ANNALS OF ROGER BE HOVEDEN. A.D. 1176. Cornwall, the king's unele, at Certeseie," and was buried at Eeading. In the year of graee 1176, being the twenty-second year of the reign of king Henry, son of the empress Matilda, the said king and king Henry, his son, Avere at Windsor during the festival of the Nativity of our Lord. On the same day, the before-named cardinal deacon, Hugezun, titular of Saint Michael de Petra Leonis, and legate of the Apostolic See, was at York with Boger, archbishop of York. After the Nativity of our Lord, at the feast of the Conversion of Saint Taul, our lord the king, the father, came to Nottingham,68 and, there held a great couneil,69 on the statutes of his realm, and in the presence of the king, his son, and of the archbishops, bishops, earls, and barons of his realm, by the common consent of all, divided his kingdom into six parts, to eaeh of which he appointed three justices itinerant, whose names are as follow : NORFOLK SUFFOLK CAMBRIDGESHIRE ( HUGH DE CRESST HUNTINGDONSHIRE ! WALTE R PITZ-EOBERT BEDFORDSHIRE ( EOBERT MANTEL BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ESSEX HERTFORDSHIRE ' LINCOLNSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ì HUG H DE GUNDEVILLE DERBYSHIRE WILLIAM FITZ-RALFH 1 STAFFORDSHIRE WILLIAM BASSET WARWICKSHIRE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE LEICESTERSHIRE KENT SURREY BOBEBT FITZ-BERNARD SOUTHAMPTONSHIRE'" BICHARD GIFFARD SUSSEX ROGEB PITZ-BEMFRAY BERKSHIRE OXFORDSHIRE " Chertsey, in Surrey. 6 5 This is a mistake for Northampton. 6 9 These councils were the origin of our parliaments. Holinshed calls the present one a parliament. 7 0 Hampshire.