=Source.=--Florence of Worcester, _Chronicon_, ed. Thorpe, vol. ii., p.
40.
After this Robert, duke of the Normans, having determined to set
out with others to Jerusalem, sent envoys to England to request his
brother king William to renew the peace between them and to lend him
10,000 marks of silver, receiving from him as security the duchy of
Normandy. The king, anxious at once to satisfy his request, commanded
the nobles of England, each of them according to his means, to advance
him money with all speed. Therefore, bishops, abbots and abbesses
broke up their gold and silver church-ornaments, and earls, barons and
sheriffs despoiled their knights and villeins, and brought to the king
a large sum of gold and silver. And he crossed the sea in the month
of September, made peace with his brother, lent him 6,666_l._, and
received Normandy from him as security.