Into  the  details  of  this  famous  quarrel  it  is  quite  impossible
to  enter  here.     It  was  conducted  with  considerable  skill
and  pertinacity  by  both  sides,  though  unfortunately  with
great  bitterness,^  especially  by  the  archbishop.     Of  this  we
can  judge  not  merely  from  the  narratives  of  contemporary
historians,  but  especially  from   the  dossier  of  the  affair,
which  was  collected  between  the  years  1201  and  1205  by
one  Reginald,'  and  which  was  edited  with  his  customary
care  and  ability  by  the  late  Bishop  Stubbs.*    The  fact  that


he  says  that  he  has  committed  "vices  nostras''  to  Baldwin.  This
document  was  known  to  Jafft^,  15,520.  A  letter  of  December  19,
1 185  (JaiT(6,  15,490),  shows  Baldwin  in  possession  of  his  new  title
of  '^  apostolicae  sedis  legatus,''  on  which  see  Stubbs,  Constitutional
Hist,  of  Eng,^  iii.  298  ff.  He  notes  (p.  300)  that  archbishops
Richard  and  Baldwin  "were  made  legates  as  a  matter  of  course.''
The  letter  analysed  in  the  text  shows  that  this  statement  needs
explanation.
'  Stubbs,  in  his  Introduction  to  the  Epp,  Cantuar,^  quoted  below^
"  cannot  acquit "  Archbishop  Baldwin  of  "  harshness,  arbitrary  severity,
and  want  of  tact " ;  nor  can  he  avoid  telling  of  the  "  fresh  acts  of
aggression"  perpetrated  by  Baldwin's  successor,  Hubert  Walter,  p.  cvi.
Even  as  early  as  1 1 50  Archbishop  Theobald  promptly  had  recourse  to
violence  when  the  monks  wished  to  appeal  against  his  treatment  of
them.    Ib.^  p.  xxxiii.
'  Probably  the  subprior  who  was  elected  to  succeed  Archbishop
Hubert  in  1205.     Stubbs,  Introduction  to  the  dossier^  p.  xi.
'It  was  published  under  the  title  of  Epistolce  Cantuarienses^  and
forms  the  second  vol.  of  the  Chronicles  and  Memorials  of  the  Reign  of
Richard  Li  London,  1865,  R.  S.
302  URBAN   III.
