^{page v note 1} François Mugnier's essay, Les Savoyards en Angleterre au xiiie siècle et Pierre d'Aigueblanche, Evéque d'Hereford, Chambery, 1891, is the chief authority for the bishop's early career.

^{page v note 2} Matt Paris, Chr. Maj., IV, 48, R.S.Google Scholar

^{page vi note 1} Hereford Episcopal Registers, ed. Capes, published jointly by the Cantilupe and Canterbury and York Societies, pp. xxiii–xxvii; and Canon A. X. Bannister, The Cathedral Church of Hereford, Append. R. The Burgundians in the Chapter, pp. 141–145.

^{page vi note 2} Paris, op. cit., IV, 403.

^{page vi note 3} The Priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, was assessed at 500 marcs, “Meyneto Spyne per obligacionem episcopi Herefordensis in curia Romana,” Treasurers' Accounts, A.D. 1256. For an account of Peter's action in this matter, see Matt. Paris (R.S.), 510, 512; Annals of Dunstable (R.S.), p. 199Google Scholar; Annals of Oseney (R.S.), pp. 109–110Google Scholar; Wykes' Chron. (R.S.), pp. 125–127Google Scholar; and Muratori, Antiq. Ital., VI, Col. 140^D.

^{page vii note 1} Chr. Maj., V, 510.Google Scholar

^{page vii note 2} Mugnier, op. cit.

^{page viii note 1} Liber de Antiquis legibus, p. 53Google Scholar; Rishanger, , p. 17Google Scholar; Barth. Cotton, p. 139; Flores Hist., II, 480.Google Scholar

^{page viii note 2} Annals of London (R.S.), I, p. 64.Google Scholar

^{page viii note 3} “Before the final triumph of the Royalist cause Peter retired to Savoy and never left again his native valleys” (D.N.B., Vol. XLV, 63Google Scholar). Canon Bannister in his Cathedral Church of Hereford (1924)Google Scholar makes much the same statement.

^{page viii note 4} Nicholas of Ely was translated from Worcester to Winchester by papal bull dated February 24, 1268.

^{page viii note 5} Stephen Birchington in Anglia Sacra, Vol. I, p. 11.Google Scholar

^{page viii note 6} Hugh de Mortimer was appointed official of Canterbury in 1245; he became Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1269. Gervase (R.S.), Vol. II, p. 249.

^{page ix note 1} There is a further description of the tomb at Aiguebelle in Archcelogia, Vol. XVIII, p. 188Google Scholar, by T. Kerrich, who compares the monument to that of Charles the Bald at St. Denis.

^{page ix note 2} See Havergal, 's Fasti Herefordenses, p. 177.Google Scholar

^{page x note 1} See Savoy Will which supplies an explanation.

^{page 1 note 1} The words in brackets are supplied from the Savoy copy printed by Mugnier. For reasons stated in the Preface, Mugnier's text could only be partially used for this purpose.

^{page 1 note 2} The first of numerous hiatuses in the MS. described above.

^{page 2 note 1} Cornebury or Aconbury, an Augustinian nunnery, 4½ miles south of Hereford.

^{page 2 note 2} St. Ethelbert's Hospital, founded by Elyas of Bristol, canon of Hereford in 1225. Capes, Charters and Records of Hereford Cathedral, p. 57.Google Scholar

^{page 2 note 3} A Hospitaler's house in Wydmer Street, Hereford. Tanner's Notitia, p. 176.Google Scholar

^{page 2 note 4} Leper-houses. John de Aqua-Blanca, dean of Hereford, the bishop's nephew, left by his will 12d. to the Leper-houses on the farther side of the Wye, and towards Yezeyne (Eigne). Capes, op. cit., p. 187.

^{page 2 note 5} Wormeley, an Augustinian house near Weobley.

^{page 3 note 1} Philip of Savoy, brother of Archbishop Boniface, held the Archbishopric of Lyons for twenty-one years (1246–1267), though only in minor orders. At length, being threatened with suspension by the Pope, he resigned, and. afterwards married.

^{page 3 note 2} Mugnier's text (from the Savoy exemplification) gives for this and the following sum 2,000 pounds. The precise equivalent cannot be easily determined.

^{page 3 note 3} Ancelin de Clermont, bishop of Maurienne 1262–1269. He had been Dean of Hereford.

^{page 4 note 1} Beton, an abbey of Cistercian nuns, in Savoy in the diocese of Maurienne.

^{page 4 note 2} Mugnier reads Petri Enclisii.

^{page 4 note 3} Hubert or Humbert of Yanna, according to Mugnier, was precentor of St. Katharine's, Aiguebelle. In 1273 he was made a canon of Hereford. Cape, op. cit., p. 133.

^{page 4 note 4} A hospital for travellers founded by Peter de Aquablanca near Aiguebelle.

^{page 4 note 5} John de Aquablanca, the bishop's nephew and the chief executor of his will, succeeded to the deanery of Hereford on the cession of Ancelin in 1262. In 1271 Giles of Avonbury, Ancelin's predecessor in the deanery, instituted a suit against Dean John on the ground that he had been deprived of his office in an irregular manner. The see of Canterbury being vacant by the death of Archbishop Boniface, the case was heard by the Commissary of the Prior and Chapter of Canterbury, who gave sentence in favour of Giles, to whom he allotted damages amounting to one thousand pounds. John, however, appealed against the sentence to the Roman Curia, where the suit lingered for eight years, but at length was decided in his favour, and he was restored to his office, which he continued to enjoy until his death, which did not occur until 1320. His will is printed by Capes in Hereford Charters, pp. 186Google Scholar et sqq., and is an interesting document.

^{page 6 note 1} bloyetus = light blue.

^{page 6 note 2} persicus = dark blue.

^{page 6 note 3} The Castle of St. Helen was granted to Peter by Archbishop Boniface in 1255 to be held of him as a fief.

^{page 6 note 4} Petit St. Bernard.

^{page 6 note 5} Probably Beatrice of Savoy, the wife of Charles of Anjou.

^{page 7 note 1} Canon of Hereford.

^{page 7 note 2} Canon of Aiguebelle.

^{page 7 note 3} Canon of Hereford. In Bishop Swinfield's Expense Roll there is an account of the expulsion of Peter de Langon from his canonry by Bishop John le Breton (Peter's successor), and of the protracted litigation which followed. Webb, who edited the Roll for the Camden Society, says in his introduction: “It (the suit) lingered on through more than sixteen tedious years and passed through many hands; auditors, proctors, and Popes disappeared, but still the cause of Langon versus Cantilupe and others survived.” It was finally decided by Pope Nicholas IV in 1290, and Peter Langon was restored to his stall with tremendous damages against the Bishop of Hereford and the executors of Thomas Cantilupe. Langon died 1299. Episcopal Registers of Hereford, Swinfield, pp. ii, 70, 258.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 4} Canon A. T. Bannister states that Eimeric was compelled or induced to exchange the precentorship for the less lucrative chancellorship by John le Breton, Peter's successor in the see. Cathedral Church of Hereford, p. 142Google Scholar. Eimeric, however, seems to have been chancellor in Bishop Peter's time.

^{page 8 note 1} Henry III in 1262 granted to Bishop Peter and his successors a monopoly during fair time of all mercantile transactions within five leagues of Hereford (Capes, Charters, p. 119Google Scholar). There was afterwards trouble between the Bishop and the Chapter about the tithes on the profits of these fairs, which was submitted to the arbitration of a Papal delegate and others, who, after inquiry, gave the following decision: “Volumus insuper, laudamus, et mandamus, quod decimas moleudinorum, nundinarum, assartorum et travas tam bladi quam avene et quinque ladas frumenti, sicut ante subtraccionem solvi consueverunt, in futurum solvat eisdem, et de preceptis et retentis ab episcopo arbitrio ipsius et consciencie duximus relinquendum.” Capes, ut supra, p. 191.Google Scholar

^{page 8 note 2} For parcario, park-keeper.

^{page 9 note 1} The seal has gone, but the tag to which it was attached remains.