_Demoniacal Descent of the Plantagenets_ (Vol. ix., p. 494.).--H. B. C.
will find another passage, illustrative of this presumption, in Henry
Knyghton's _Chronica_:
"De isto quoque Henrico, quondam infantulo et in curia regis Francorum
nutrito, beatus Bernardus Abbas de eo sic prophetavit, præsente rege,
_De Diabolo venit, et ad Diabolum ibit_: Notans per hoc tam tyrannidem
patris sui Galfridi, qui Sagiensem episcopum eunuchaverat, quam etiam
istius Henrici futuram atrocitatem qua in beatum Thomam
desæviret."--Twysden, _Hist. Angl. Scriptores_, pp. 2393. 32., and
2399. 10.