432 . ANNALS OF ROGER DE HOVEDEN. A.D. 1198. On the following day, however, the said earl, having called to his aid a considerable number of the knights of the household of the king of England, came before the castle of Pasci, having first disposed the knights and great numbers of men-atarms in different places, to he in ambush for the people of the castle. Accordingly, when the knights of the castle, who had driven him from the field the day before, espied him, they sallied forth with great vigour, and he fled before them, until they fell in with those lying in ambush, on which eighteen knights of their number were captured, and a great number of the common soldiers. In the meantime, Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, crossed over from England to Normandy, and immediately, at the request of the king of Prance, and with the permission of the king of England, proceeded into France, to treat of making peace between those two kings. On this, the king of France made offer that he would, for the sake of peace, surrender to the king of England all his lands and castles that he had seized, with the exception of the castle of Gisors, as to which, he would abide by the decision of six Norman barons, whom he himself should name, and of six barons of France, whom the king of England should name, which of the two had the greatest right to retain possession of the castle ; but the king of England declined, unless the earl of Flanders, and all the others who had abandoned the king of France and become his adherents, were included in the treaty. In the same year, Hugh Bardolph, Master Boger Arundel, and Geoffrey Hacket, to whom, as judges itinerant, had been entrusted Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancaster, held pleas of the king's crown. Heads of the Pleas of the King's Crown.™ Of pleas of the crewn, new and old, which were not disposed of in the presence of the justices of our lord the king. Of mort d'ancestor. Of novel disseisin. Of grand assize, as far as ten pounds' value in land, and below. Of advowsons of churches. Elections87 also under the jurisdiction of the grand assize are to be taken before them, in obedience to the mandate of our lord the king, or of his chief justice. Of churches vacant or not vacant, which were in the presenta 8 3 The -text of Wilkins has been adopted. 8 7 Probably of ecclesiastical persons.