A.D. 1177. GENERAI, COUNCIL HELD AT NORTHAMPTON. 437 to be heretics, and do approve of the judgment pronounced upon them." In the year of grace 1177, being the twenty-third year of the reign of king Henry, son of the empress Matilda, the said Henry, and Geoffrey, earl of Brittany, and John, his sons, were at Northampton, in England, during the festival of the Nativity of our Lord. On the same day, king Henry, the son, and his wife were at Argenton in Normandy, and Bichard, the son of king Henry, earl of Poitou, was in Aquitaine, at the city of Bourdeaux. Immediately after, the Nativity of our Lord, he laid siege to the city of Aques, which Peter, viscount of Aques, and the count of Bigorre had fortified against him, and within ten: days he took it. After this, he laid siege to the city of Bayonne, which Ernald Bertram, viscount of Bayonne, had fortified against him, and mthin ten days he took it. Moving his army thence, he came to the gates of Sizarre, now called Port D'Espagne, and took and destroyed it, and, by force, compelled the Basques and Navarrese to make oath, that, from that time forward, they would always keep the peace towards strangers and among themselves, and he also put an end to all the evil customs that had been introduced at Sorges and Espure. In the meantime, the king of England, the father, holding a general council at Northampton, after the feast of Saint Hilary, restored to Bobert, earl of Leicester, all his lands on both sides of the sea, as he held the same fifteen days before the war began, with the exception of the castles of Mountsorrel and Pasci. In like manner he restored to Hugh, earl of Chester, all the lands of which ho was in possession fifteen days before the war; and to William d'Aubigny, son of William, earl of Arundel, he gave the earldom of Sussex. At the same council, also, Guido, the dean, resigned into the hands of Eichard, archbishop of Canterbury, his deanery of Waltham, and quitted claim, freely and absolutely, of all right which he had to the church of Waltham. In. the same manner did the canons secular of Waltham as to their prebends, resigning them into the hands of the archbishop ; but our lord the king gave them full compensation for the same, according to the estimate of the lord archbishop of Canterbury. After this, our lord the king, by the authority of our lord the pope, placed in the same church of Waltham canons regular taken from various houses