ORIGINAL AUTHORITIES.--Henry's laws are printed in W. Stubb's _Select Charters_ (Oxford, 1895). The chief chroniclers of his reign are William of Newburgh, Ralph de Diceto, the so-called Benedict of Peterborough, Roger of Hoveden, Robert de Torigni (or de Monte), Jordan Fantosme, Giraldus Cambrensis, Gervase of Canterbury; all printed in the Rolls Series. The biographies and letters contained in the 7 vols. of _Materials for the History of Thomas Becket_ (ed. J. C. Robertson, Rolls Series, 1875-1885) are valuable for the early and middle part of the reign. For Irish affairs the _Song of Dermot_ (ed. Orpen, Oxford, 1892), for the rebellions of the princes the metrical _Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal_ (ed. Paul Meyer, 3 vols., Paris, 1891, &c.) are of importance. Henry's legal and administrative reforms are illustrated by the _Tractatus de legibus_ attributed to Ranulph Glanville, his chief justiciar (ed. G. Phillips, Berlin, 1828); by the _Dialogus de scaccario_ of Richard fitz Nigel (Oxford, 1902); the _Pipe Rolls_, printed by J. Hunter for the Record Commission (1844) and by the Pipe-Roll Society (London, 1884, &c.) supply valuable details. The works of John of Salisbury (ed. Giles, 1848), Peter of Blois (ed. Migne), Walter Map (Camden Society, 1841, 1850) and the letters of Gilbert Foliot (ed. J. A. Giles, Oxford, 1845) are useful for the social and Church history of the reign.
MODERN AUTHORITIES.--R. W. Eyton, _Itinerary of Henry II._ (London, 1878); W. Stubbs, _Constitutional History_, vol. i. (Oxford, 1893), _Lectures on Medieval and Modern History_ (Oxford, 1886) and _Early Plantagenets_ (London, 1876); the same author's introduction to the Rolls editions of "Benedict," Gervase, Diceto, Hoveden; Mrs J. R. Green, Henry II. (London, 1888); Miss K. Norgate, _England under the Angevin Kings_ (2 vols., London, 1887); Sir J. H. Ramsay's _The Angevin Empire_ (London, 1893); H. W. C. Davis's _England under the Normans and Angevins_ (London, 1905); Sir F. Pollock and F. W. Maitland, _History of English Law_ (2 vols., Cambridge, 1898); and F. Hardegen, _Imperialpolitik König Heinrichs II. von England_ (Heidelberg, 1905). (H. W. C. D.)
[1] For a supposed visit in 1147, see J. H. Round in _English Historical Review_, v. 747.