^{page 238 note 1} Professor Cheney states (p. 120) that ‘although the epistolary collections of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries have attracted a good deal of attention … their origin and transmission have not been adequately investigated’. He appears to have overlooked C. Erdmann's important, pioneer Studien zur Briefliteratur Deutschlands im 11. Jahrhundert (1938), a work of great penetration and wide application by a scholar whose early death is to be regretted, which seems in England to have received less attention than it merits.

^{page 239 note 1} Cf. p. 25. Was FitzStephen, in the famous passage cited p. 23, really referring to the cancellaria of Becket as archbishop, and not to the royal chancery? Neither Tout (Chapters, i. 133) nor Klewitz (Deutsches Archiv, i. 72) thought so; and I should agree with them.