MATTHEW OF WESTMTSïSTEB. A.D. 1260. the week before. At the same time, peace and concord was finally established between the two kings, those, that is to say, of England and France, in the matter of the dominion and sovereignty over Normandy, which the king of France had long held, as his predecessors had also done, although the king of England had claimed it as his right ; on which account, having had a long discussion on this point, and a firm convention having been come to respecting it, the king of England, for himself and for his successors, gave up to the king of France and his successors full possession of Normandy, resigning to him all his rights and authority over that country, as is plain by the reading of his documents which are curtailed in that part. In return for which concession he received, under the name of an exchange, some fertile and opulent districts, and also a sum of money, which he was to be paid from the exchequer of the king of France, with this further addition, that, after the decease of Louis, then king of France, Poitou was to revert to the king of England without any contradiction. And this convention and agreement was confirmed by every security which could possibly be devised, and ratified by the seals and witnesses of a great number of nobles of both nations. In those days, while the king was still delaying in those parts with the queen, Beatrice, his daughter, was married to the count of Brittany, as has been already mentioned ; which marriage was brought about by the intervention of the bishop of Brest, who had lately been sent into England with that object ; and the district which king Henry had received under the name of exchange for Normandy was now nearly all assigned to this count as a marriage portion. About this time, a dispute arose between Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, and the chapter of Lincoln, the archbishop asserting that he ought to exercise, and would exercise, jurisdiction in the church of Lincoln while the see was vacant, and that his predecessors always had exercised such authority freely ; and all the sons of the church fearlessly resisted and contradicted him, adding, that as soon as a see was vacant, all the jurisdiction was carried on, as it ought to be, by the archdeacons and ordinaries of the church, and that the archbishop had no powers to interfere in it without their consent. Therefore, the archbishop, as he doubted on this point, wrote to all the brethren of àie religious orders who dwelt within