The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

HO G. C. BROOKE.
Legate ; her conference with the Legate on March 2
at Wherwell, near Andover, and arrangement of terms
her arrival at Winchester the
for securing the throne ;
following day, her hallowing there as "Lady and Queen"
of England; her delay at Oxford, Eeading andSt. Albans,
while the Londoners are to
persuaded accept her; the
final consent ofthe Londoners a few days before June 24,
the disgust of the
and her admission to Westminster ;
Londoners at her demand of a subsidy, refusal to grant
the good laws of the Confessor, &c. ; the arrival of
Queen Matilda and William of Ypres with an army
raised in Kent, and their admission on June 24 by the
Londoners; the flight of the Empress; her siege of
Winchester on July 31, and her own defeat by the
army of William of Ypres and escape (Sept. 14) through
the capture of
Ludgershall and Devizes to Gloucester ;
Robert of Gloucester and his exchange for Stephen ;
the stay of the Empress at Oxford for the winter of
1141-2, and her move to Devizes in March, and the
sending of an embassy to urge her husband to come
over; the arrival of Duke Henry at Bristol in late
autumn ; the siege of the Empress in Oxford by Stephen
from September to December 1142, and her flight at
Christmas to Abingdon and thence to Wallingford,
which practically closes her active career in the war,
which at this period commences to be fought on behalf
of her son's claim to the throne instead of her own.
The coins are known of the Bristol, Canterbury,
Lincoln, London, Stamford, and perhaps Winchester,
mints. At Winchester coins might have been issued
in the name of the Empress after her hallowing as
Lady and Queen on March 3, 1141. She was at London
only a few days ; but it is perhaps not impossible for