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 OF THE PRINCES, BARONS, AND KNIGHTS WHO ATTENDED 
 
 KING EDWARD I. TO THE SIEGE OF 
 
 CAERLAVEROCK, IN 1300; 
 
 EDITED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, WITH A 
 
 TRANSLATION AND NOTES, 
 
 BY THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A., etc.. 
 
 CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. 
 
 WITH THE COAT-ARMOURS EMBLAZONED IN GOLD AND COLOURS. 
 
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 preface- 
 
 HE Cajlle of Caerlaverock was Jituated on the northern Jhore of the Solway 
 Frith, at the confluence of the rivers Nith and Locher, about nine miles fouth 
 of Dumfries. It was from an early period the feat of the Maxwells, but very 
 little is known of its hijlory, for it was a place of no great importance. When 
 King Edward I. invaded Scotland in the year 1300, as he croJOfed the border by this route, he 
 found this Cajlle of Caerlaverock in his way, fortified againjl him, and he thought it necefary to 
 lay fiege to it. The date of this fiege is fixed to within a few days by the evidence of con- 
 temporary records. By the writs, tejled on the 29th of December, 1299, thofe who owed 
 military fervice to the Crown were fummoned to attend at Carlijle on the feajl of the Nativity of 
 St. John the Baptijl next enfuing (the 24th of June), and the Englijh army quitted Carlijle about 
 the ijl of July. For the reajbns Jlated by Sir Harris Nicolas, there can be little doubt that the 
 Jiege began on the lOth or i ith of that month ; and, as the record printed in the prefent volume 
 informs us, it was not of long duration, for it furrendered on the fecond day. Although the 
 capture of Caerlaverock was the principal event of this campaign, two only of our old chroniclers 
 mention it ; Pierre de Langtoft, who (in the words of his Englijh tranjlator) calls it " a povere 
 hamlete,"^ and the Chronicle of Lanercojl, the compiler of which tells that, in the year 1300, 
 " about the feajl of St. John the Baptijl, the lord Edward King of England, with his nobles 
 and magnates, came to Carlijle, with whom came the lord Hugh de Veer, and lodged at 
 Lanercojl, and thence the king paJTed into Galloway, as far as the water of Grithe, and took 
 the Cajlle of Caerlaverock, which he gave in charge to the lord Robert de Clifford, and he 
 caufed feveral of thofe who were found in the cajlle to be hanged, and it was then the year of 
 
 1 « Sir Edward faiih tho paynes, and tok the gate agayne ; 
 The more he forfoke, the fotemen ilk a flok 
 A povere hamlete toke, the caftelle Karelaverok."-HEARNE's Edit. p. 87. 
 
 477 
 
vi PREFACE. 
 
 jubilee in the jixth year of the pontificate of Pope Boniface."* This account Jeems to 
 contradict Edward's clemency as Jlated in our text, but the viSims were perhaps individuals 
 who had merited the king's vengeance by Jbme ad of treafon. 
 
 The cajlle, after its Jurrender, was given, as jujl Jlated, into the cujlody of Robert de 
 Clifford, and it evidently continued in the pojfejfion of the Englijh for Jbme years. In 1309 
 meajures were taken to Jlrengthen it againjl the attacks of the Scots, and /imilar precautions 
 are recorded as late as 1312. Eujlace de Maxwell, who represented the family here at that 
 time, was then in the Englijh interejl, but he Jbon afterwards joined the Jlandard of Robert 
 Bruce, and defended his cajlle for Jeveral weeks againjl the Englijh. At length, forejeeing that 
 it mujl ultimately fall into their hands, he entirely demolijhed its fortifications, in order that they 
 might be of no ufe in the hands of an enemy ; for which patriotic facrifice he was rewarded with 
 a penjion by king Robert Bruce. After the death of Sir Eujlace Maxwell, his Jon Sir Herbert 
 Maxwell, in 1347, fwore fealty to the king of England, and the Cajlle of Caerlaverock appears 
 at that time to have been rebuilt, or another cajlle built near it. The cajlle is faid to have 
 been taken by the Scots under Roger Fitzpatrick in 1355, and again levelled with the ground. 
 The prejent cajlle is fuppojed to have been built towards the end ^ the fourteenth century. 
 According to Camden, the Cajlle of Caerlaverock was again, in the month of Augujl, 1570, 
 ruined, or at leajl its fortifications dejlroyed, in the Earl of SuJJex's invajion. It was again 
 fortified by the Earl of Nithfdale in 1638, on the eve of the civil wars, and it was objlinately 
 defended by that nobleman for the king until 1640, when he was obliged to Jurrender it, and 
 it was again and finally dijmantled. 
 
 The very remarkable document here printed was compofed at the time of the firjl Jlege, that 
 of the year 1300, no doubt by a herald who accompanied the army of Edward I., and who 
 intended to give in it a lijl of the arms of all the nobles and knights bannerets who attended on 
 this important occajion. It was the fajhion at that time to compile in verje a great variety of 
 literary compojitions which Jeem to have no connexion with poetry, but a metrical form was 
 conjidered a convenient, and therefore a fajhionable, Jhape for whatever it was dejlred to carry in 
 the memory ; and it is hardly necejjary to Jay that the French language as then ujed in England 
 was that of the court, and therefore that of heraldry. This poem, if we can properly call it a 
 poem, has an efpecial interejl for us, as, I believe, the earliejl roll of arms we pojjejs ; but it al/o 
 claims our attention on Jeveral other grounds. As well as dejcribing the arms of mojl of the 
 leading barons and dijlinguijhed knights of that time, it very frequently dejcribes their perjbns 
 aljb, and gives us traits of their perjbnal charader which makes us more intimately acquainted 
 
 ' " A.° MCCC. Anno eodem, circa feftum fanfti Johannis Baptiftae, dominus Edwardus rex Angliae cum proceribus 
 et magnatibus Angliae venit apud Karleolum, cum quo venit dominus Hugo de Veer, et fecit moram apud 
 Lanercoft. Et Inde tranfivit rex in partes Galwithiae ufque ad aquam de Grithe, cepitque caftrum de Carlaverok, 
 quod dedit Domino Roberto de Clifforde, et fecit plures inter caftrum inventos fufpendi, fuitque tunc annus 
 Jubilaei anno pontificus Bonifacii papae vj"." — Chron. de Lanercoft. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 vii 
 
 with the moving perfonages of that period than any of the ordinary fources of information. We 
 have here alfo a jingularly curious piSure of the method of arraying an army, and of the 
 whole procefs of the jiege of a cajlle. 
 
 I have Jaid that this poem was probably the work of one of King Edward's heralds, becaufe 
 I am perfeSly convinced that the notion of Sir Harris Nicolas, to whom we owe the previous 
 edition, that it was written by a monk named Walter of Exeter, who was the author of the 
 early French, or Anglo-Norman, romance of Guy of Warwick, originated in a mere blunder. 
 In fpeaking of Guy Earl of Warwick, Pierre de Gavejlon's " black dog of Arden," the writer 
 ujes the phrafe, as printed by Sir Harris — 
 
 " Coment ken ma rime de Guy," 
 
 which he tranjlates as intimating " that he had alluded to him in his * rhyme of Guy.'" This 
 " rhyme of Guy," Sir Harris Nicolas fuppofes, was the Romance of Guy of Warwick, and 
 therefore he ajQfumes that theje two works are by the fame writer, Walter of Exeter. This 
 would be a reafonable fuppojition enough if the line would bear the interpretation here put upon 
 it ; but this it certainly will not ; and, in faS, as thus read and explained, the line prefents no 
 grammatical conJlruSion. If the de be not a mere error of the copyijl, the reading of the old 
 manujcript from which the text is now printed is certainly the bejl — 
 
 " Coment ke en ma rime le guy." 
 
 The phrafe is Jlill fomewhat cramped, but it feems to be correSly tranjlated — 
 
 " However I may bring him in my rhyme." 
 
 At all events there is no allufion in it either to Guy of Warwick, or to the writer of the 
 romance of that hero.^ We can only look upon this roll of arms as an entirely anonymous 
 produftion. There is no reafon whatever for afcribing the metrical roll of Caerlaverock to 
 Walter of Exeter, nor is there any fimilarity between the Jlyle in which this roll is written 
 and that of Walter's romance. 
 
 This roll is preferved in one early — in faS, fufficiently near to be called a contemporary — 
 manufcript on velum, now in the Cottonian Library in the Britijh Mufeum, which is marked 
 Caligula A. XVIII. ; but Glover, the celebrated herald of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, made 
 two copies from what was evidently another manufcript, which would appear, by his defcription, 
 to have been of hardly lefs antiquity than that in the Cottonian Library, but which appears to 
 be now lojl. One of thefe copies is preferved in the library of the College of Arms in London ; 
 the other in the office of the Uljler King of Arms in Dublin. It was from the firjl of thefe 
 
 ' It is perhaps but right to ftate, that in the text of his tranflation Sir Harris Nicolas has given a totally 
 different reading and tranflation of the pafTage, though equally incorrea ; but it contains no allufion to Guy of 
 Warwick. The other was, therefore, adopted after the book was printed. 
 
viii PREFACE. 
 
 that the text was edited by Sir Harris Nicolas ; in the prejent edition I have given the text of 
 the Cottonian manujcript, the various readings of which I find to be nearly always better than 
 thofe of Glover's copy, and I Jhould judge that they are thofe of a manujcript of older date. More- 
 over, we can place no trujl in the philological accuracy of a copy made in the reign of Elizabeth, 
 as juch things were then little attended to. Glover would, no doubt, attend carefully to the 
 heraldic and hijlorical information contained in the record, but he is not likely to have Jludied its 
 verbal accuracy, and efpecially the forms of words and grammatical conjlruSions of which he 
 could know little. In thus printing from Glover's tranfcript, Sir Harris Nicolas has aSually 
 omitted the two firjl lines of the poem, and begun it in the middle of a Jentence. 
 
 Sir Harris himjelf, indeed, did not pojjejs that knowledge of the language in which this 
 record is written, which would qualify him either for editing or tranjlating it. His tranjlation 
 is extremely faulty, and is, in faS, the leajl JatisfaSory part of his volume. It mujl, however, 
 be Jaid, in his excuje, that at the time when he publijhed this book, there were few, and perhaps 
 we may Jay nobody, in England, who Jludied the language grammatically ; while many parts 
 of the Roll of Caerlaverock, written in a debajed form of the French language, are very cramped 
 and obfcure, from the difficulty of treating fuch a JubjeS in fuch a fcnfm, and perhaps by a not 
 very Jkilful writer. There are Jeveral pajfages of the exaft meaning of which I feel doubtful. 
 The bejl part of Sir Harris Nicolas's edition is, no doubt, his valuable biographical Jketches of 
 the perjbnages mentioned in the poem, which almojl exhaujl the JubjeS, and the praije of thefe 
 needs no qualification. The notes to the prejent edition are merely abridged from them. 
 
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 El milem treicentime an 
 De grace, au jour de Seint 
 Johan, 
 
 Fu au Carduel, e tint grant court, 
 
 E commanda ke a terme court 
 
 Tuit fi homme fe apparellajjent, 
 
 E enjemble ovec li alajjent 
 
 Sur les EJcos ]es enemis. 
 
 Dedens le jour ke lour fu mis 
 
 Fu prejle toute le ojl banie ; 
 
 E li Roys o fa grant maijhie 
 
 Tanttojl Je vunt vers les EJcos, — 
 
 Non pas en cotes e fourcos, — 
 
 Mes Jur les granz chevaus de pris. 
 
 For ceo q'il ne feujyfent Jupris, 
 
 Arme ben e jeurement. 
 
 La ot meint riche guarnement 
 
 Brode Jiir Jendaus e Jamis, 
 
 Meint beau penon en lance mis, 
 
 Meint banier deploie. 
 
 Se ejloit la noije loign oie 
 
 De henijjemens de chevaus ; 
 
 Par tout ejloient mons e vaus 
 
 Plein de Jbmiers e de charroi, 
 
 O la vitaile e le conroi 
 
 De tentis e de pavelloins. 
 
 E li jour ejloit beaus e Ions, 
 
 Se erroint petites journees 
 
 En quatre echeles ordenes ; 
 
 Le queles vos devijerai, 
 
 Ke nulle ne en trepajjerai. 
 
 N chronicles of great monajleries 
 It is found that King Edward 
 
 the Third, 
 In the year one thoujand three 
 hundred 
 
 Of grace, on the day of Saint John, 
 Was at Carlijle, and held a great court, 
 And commanded that in a Jhort time 
 All his men Jhould prepare themjelves, 
 To go together with him 
 Againjl his enemies the Scots. 
 Before the appointed day 
 The whole hojl Jummoned was ready ; 
 And the King with his great houjehold 
 Immediately fet forward againjl the Scots, 
 Not in coats and Jurcoats, 
 But on powerful and cojlly chargers. 
 In order that they might not be taken by Jurprije, 
 
 Well and Jecurely armed. 
 
 There was many a rich caparijbn 
 
 Embroidered on Jilks and Jatins ; 
 
 Many a beautiful pennon fixed on a lance ; 
 
 And many a banner dijplayed. 
 
 And afar off was the noiJe heard 
 
 Of the neighing of horjes ; 
 
 Mountains and valleys were everywhere 
 
 Covered with Jumpter horjes and waggons. 
 
 With provijions, and the train 
 
 Of the tents and pavilions. 
 
 And the days were fine and long, 
 
 So they proceeded by Jhort journies. 
 
 Arranged in four Jquadrons ; 
 
 The- which I will dejcribe to you, 
 
 That I will not pajs one over. 
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THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK, 
 
 Ainz vous diray des compaignons 
 Toutes les armes e le nons, 
 De banerez nomement, 
 Si vous volez oir coment, 
 
 JNRIS li bons Quens de Nicole, 
 Ki provejle enbrajce e acole, 
 E en Jon cuer le a jbveraine, 
 Menans le efchele premeraine, 
 Baner out de un cendal Jafrin, 
 O un lioun rampant purprin. 
 
 LUI Robert le fiz Water, 
 
 Ke ben Jbut dez armes le mejler, 
 
 Se en fejbit kanques il devoit, 
 
 En la baner jaune avoit 
 
 Fejfle entre deus cheverons vermaus. 
 
 GUILLEMS li Marefcaus, 
 Dont en Irlande ot la baiUie, 
 
 La bende de or engreellie 
 
 Portoit en la rouge baniere, 
 
 lUE Bardoul, de grant maniere, 
 Riches horns e preus e cortois, 
 En ajur quint-fullez trois 
 Portoit de fin or ejmere. 
 
 |NE grant Jeignour, mult honnore, 
 Pus-je ben nommer le cinkime, 
 Phellipe le jeigneur de Kyme, 
 Ky portoit rouge o un cheveron, 
 De or croiJJiUie tot environ 
 
 Firjl I will tell you of the companions, 
 All their arms and names, 
 Especially of the bannerets, 
 If you will lijlen how. 
 
 ]ENRY the good Earl of Lincoln,^ 
 Who embraces and loves valour, 
 And holds it Jbvereign in his heart, 
 Leading the firjl Jquadron, 
 Had a banner of yellow Jilk 
 With a purple lion rampant. 
 
 |ITH him Robert Fitz-Walter,« 
 Who well knew the bujinejs of arms, 
 And praSiJed it whenever required, 
 On a yellow banner he had 
 A fejs between two red chevrons. 
 
 ^jND William le Marjhall,' 
 
 tt^A Who in Ireland had the chief command, 
 
 A gold bend engrailed 
 
 Bore on a red banner. 
 
 53UGH Bardolf,'*amanofgreat appearance, 
 Rich, valiant, and courteous. 
 Bore azure three cinquefoils 
 Of pure refined gold. 
 
 GREAT lord, much honoured. 
 
 May I well name the fifth, 
 Philip the lord of Kyme,^ 
 Who bore red with a chevron 
 Of gold Jurrounded by crojjlets. 
 
 ' Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, one of the moll dif- 
 tinguiflied barons of his day, fucceeded his father in the 
 earldom in 1257, when he is believed to have been not 
 more than nine years of age. He married Margaret, the 
 cldeft daughter and heirefs of William Longuelpee, and 
 fucceeded in her right to the eftates of that noble houfe and 
 to the earldom of Saliflaury. He was adlively employed in 
 the hoftilities of the time, and commanded the firft divifion 
 of the army at the fiege of Caerlaverock. The Earl Henry 
 died in 1312, at Lincoln's Inn, then in the fuburbs of Lon- 
 don. The arms of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, were, 
 or, a lion rampant purpure. 
 
 * Robert Fitz- Walter was the grandfon of Robert Fitz- 
 Walter, leader of the barons who compelled King John to 
 fign Magna Charta. He was born in 1248, and was twice 
 married, firft to Eleanor, daughter of Earl Ferrers, and fe- 
 condly to Devorguil, grand-daughter to the celebrated Hugh 
 
 de Burgh, Earl of Kent. He died about the year 1325. 
 Arms, or, a fefs between two chevronels gules. 
 
 ' William le Marfhall, of the fame family as the Earls 
 of Pembroke, held the office of Hereditaiy Marfhal or 
 Ireland, which his great grandfather had received of King 
 John. He was born in 1280, and died in 13 14. Arms, 
 as defcribed in the poem, gules, a bend engrailed or. But 
 the arms of William le Marftiall areufually given as, gules, 
 a bend lozengy or. 
 
 * Hugh Bardolf was a baron of Norfolk, born about the 
 year 1255. He died in 1304. Arms, azure, three cinque- 
 foils or. 
 
 * Philip de Kyme was a baron aftively engaged in the 
 wars of Edward I. The exaft period of his birth is not 
 known, but he is believed to have been about forty-five 
 years of age at the time of the fiege of Caerlaverock. He died 
 in 1 322. Arms, gules, femee of crofs crofflets, a chevron or. 
 
THE ROLL OF CJ ERLAVEROCK. 
 
 ^ENRI de Grai vi-je la, 
 Ki ben e noblement ala 
 Ovec jbn bon feignour le Conte ; 
 Banier avoit, e par droit conte, 
 De Jis pecys la vous mejur, 
 Barree de argent e de ajur. 
 
 jOBERT de Monhaut i ejloit, 
 Ky molt haute entent metoit 
 De faire a haute honur atainte ; 
 Baniere avoit en afure teinte, 
 O un lyoun rampant de argent. 
 
 ^PJCOMPAINIEZ a eel gent 
 K^!^ Thomas de Moultone ]e fu, 
 Ky avoit baner e ejcu 
 De argent, o treis barres de goulys. 
 
 jES armes ne furent pas joules 
 D'ejiente en le apparellement ; 
 Kar teles ot refemblantment 
 Johans de Langcajlre entre meins, 
 Mes ke en lieu de une barre meins, 
 Quartier rouge e jaune lupart. 
 
 DE cele meis part 
 Fu Guillames li Vavajburs, 
 Ky de armes ne ejl muet ne fours ; 
 Baner avoit ben conoijjable, 
 De or fyn o la dance de fable. 
 
 SAW there Henry de Grey,^ 
 Who well and nobly attended 
 
 With his good lord the Earl. 
 
 He had a banner, and, reckoned rightly, 
 
 I give it you as of Jlx pieces 
 
 Barry of filver and blue. 
 
 gOBERT de Montalt^ was there. 
 Who greatly endeavoured 
 To acquire high honor ; 
 He had a banner of a blue colour, 
 With a lion rampant of filver. 
 
 3N company with thefe people 
 Was Thomas de Multon,^ 
 Who had a banner and Jhield 
 Of filver, with three bars gules. 
 
 IIS arms were not fmgle 
 In chara6?er and defign ; 
 For fuch as refembled them had 
 John de Lancajler* in his hands ; 
 But who, in the place of a bar lefs. 
 Bore a red quarter with a yellow leopard. 
 
 ^?SOHANS de Odiljlane enfement, 
 ^ Ky ben e adejfcement 
 
 ^w^ ND alfo of this fame divifion 
 i^ Was William le Vavafour,^ 
 Who in arms is neither deaf nor dumb ; 
 He had a very dijlinguijhable banner 
 Of fine gold with a fable dauncet. 
 
 IKEWISE John de HoldeJlon,« 
 Who appears well and promptly 
 
 ' Henry de Grey was born in 1254., and fucceeded his 
 father, John de Grey, in the lordfhip of Codnor in 1271. 
 He attended moft of the military expeditions of Edward I. 
 He died in the year 1308. Arms, barry of fix argent and 
 azure. 
 
 * Robert de Montalt, or Monhaut, was born about 1270, 
 and fucceeded his elder brother in his lands in 1297. He 
 alfo was a conftant attendant in Edward's wars, but we 
 know little more of him. He died in 1329, without iflue 
 male, and the barony became extinft with him. Arms, 
 azure, a lion rampant argent. 
 
 ^ Thomas de Multon, lord of Egremont in Cumber- 
 land, fucceeded his father in 1294, and is fuppofed to have 
 been about thirty-feven years of age at the fiege of Caer- 
 laverock. He died in 1 322. Arms, argent, three bars gules. 
 
 * John de Lancafterwas a baron of Weftmoreland, con- 
 jectured to have derived his furname from the faft of his 
 
 anceftor having been Governor of Lancafter Caftle in the 
 reign of Henry II. The date of his birth is not known j 
 but he died, without iflue, in 1334. Arms, argent, two 
 bars gules ; on a quarter of the fecond a lion paflant guar- 
 dant or. 
 
 * William le Vavafour was a Yorkfhire baron, who in- 
 herited the manor of Hafelwode in that county from his 
 father, John de Vavafour. He was aftively employed in 
 the wars of Edward I, and was evidently a man of efteem, 
 as he was appointed one of the judges of the Trailbafton. 
 The time of his birth is not known. Arms, or, a feflTe 
 dauncette fable. 
 
 ^ John de Holdefton was the fon and heir of the John de 
 Holdefton who, in the 35th Henry III, obtained a charter 
 for a market and fair at his lordfhip of Milburn in Cum- 
 berland. He is fuppofed to have died about the 30th Ed- 
 ward I, or A.D. 1302. Arms, gules, fretty argent. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAV EROCK. 
 
 Va de armes toutes les Jaijbns. 
 Au Conte ejloit, ji ejl raijbns 
 Ke nomez Jbit entyr Ja gent. 
 Rouge portoit frettez de argent. 
 
 IE bon Robert le fiz Roger 
 ^ Vi-je Ja baniere arenger 
 Lez cele au Conte en cele alee, 
 De or e de rouge ejquartelee 
 O un bende tainte en noir. 
 
 In arms at all Jeajbns. 
 He jerved the Earl, which makes it right 
 That he Jhould be named among his followers ; 
 He bore gules fretty of Jilver. 
 
 IHE good Robert Fitz-Roger^ 
 Saw I range *his banner 
 With that of the Earl in that march ; 
 It was quarterly of gold and red 
 With a bend coloured black. 
 
 j A Johan jbn filz jbn hoir, 
 Ky de Claveringhe a Jurnoun, 
 Ne ejloit diverje de rien noun, 
 Fors de un label vert jbulement. 
 
 jE ejloient du retenement 
 Le bon Conte, e le ben ame, 
 Tuit cil ke civous ai nome. 
 Ses compaigns fu li Conejlables, 
 Joefnes horns, riches e mettables, 
 Ki Quens ejloit de Herefort ; 
 Baniere out de Inde cendal fort, 
 O une blanche bendelee, 
 De deus cojlices entrealee, 
 De or fin, dont au dehors ajis 
 Ot en rampant lyonceaus Jis. 
 
 IM! 
 
 ICHOLAS de Segrave o H, 
 Ke nature avoit embeli 
 
 ggHAT of John his fon and heir, 
 wS^^ Who has the Jurname of Clavering,^ 
 Was not at all different. 
 Excepting only a green label. 
 
 jO were of the retinue 
 Of the good and well-beloved Earl 
 All thoje whom I have named to you. 
 His companion was the Conjlable, 
 A young man, rich and elegant, 
 Who was Earl of Hereford \^ 
 He had a banner of deep blue Jilk, 
 With a white bend 
 Between two cottices 
 Of fine gold, on the outjide of which 
 He had Jlx lioncels rampant. 
 
 ITH him was Nicholas de Segrave,^ 
 Whom nature had adorned 
 
 ' Robert Fitz-Roger fucceeded his father, Roger Fitz- 
 John, in his barony of Claverlng, in Eflex, about Whitfun- 
 tide, 1 249, when he was very young ; and, as a very wealthy 
 ward, the king committed him in wardfhip to his own 
 uterine brother, William de Valence. Ada de Balliol, 
 Robert Fitz-Roger's mother, offered the king the large fum 
 of one thoufand two hundred marks to have the cuftody of 
 him herfelf. He was engaged early in the Scottifti wars, and 
 is believed to have been about fifty years of age at the fiege of 
 Caerlaverock. Arms., quarterly, or and gules, a bend fable. 
 
 * John de Clavering was the fon of the preceding, and 
 was forty-four years of age at the death of his father, about 
 the year 1311. He and his brothers difcontinued the pre- 
 vious cuftom of the family, by which he would have been 
 called John Fitz-Robert, and affumed that of Clavering from 
 their principal manor. After an aftive and ufeful life, he 
 died in the year 1332. Arms, quarterly, or and gules, a 
 bend fable, with a label vert. The label was probably 
 omitted after his father's death. 
 
 ^ Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Eflex, and 
 Conftable of England, who has been defcribed as the moft 
 
 diftinguifhed nobleman in the kingdom, was at this time not 
 more than twenty-five years of age. He had fucceeded to 
 the family honours on the death of his father, in 1298, and 
 in 130Z he married the king's feventh daughter, Elizabeth 
 Plantagenet, widow of the Count of Holland. He efpoufed 
 the party of the Earl of Lancafter, was prefent at the be- 
 heading of Piers Gavefton, near Warwick, continued to a6l 
 zealoufly with that party againft the Difpenfers, and was flain, 
 on the 1 6th of March, 1 322, in the battle of Boroughbridge, 
 where that party was overthrown. Arms, azure, a bend 
 argent, cotifed or, between fix lions rampant of the fecond. 
 * Nicholas de Segrave and his elder brother John were 
 leading men of their day, holding high offices in the ftate, 
 and aftively engaged in all political affairs of any impor- 
 tance. Hence the rhymer has given an unufually long 
 account of them. Nicholas had been prefent at the battle 
 of Falkirk in 1298. In 1305, in confequence of a quarrel 
 with John de Cromwell, who accufed him of treafon, and 
 whom he was not allowed to fight in judicial combat, he 
 gave fo much offence to the king, that he was brought to 
 trial and condemned to death and forfeiture, but Edward 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAFEROCK. 
 
 De cors, e enrichi de cuer. 
 Valiant pere ot, ki getta puer 
 Les garbes e le lyon prijl, 
 A Jes enfans enji apri/l, 
 Les coragous, a refembler, 
 E o les nobles ajjembler. 
 Cil ot la baner Jon pere, 
 Au label rouge por Jon frere, 
 Johan, ki li ainjnez ejloit, 
 E ki entiere la portoit. 
 Li peres ot de Ja moillier 
 Cink fiz, ke ejloient chivalier 
 Preus e hardi e defenjable. 
 O un lyoun de argent en Jable 
 Rampant, e de or fin couronne, 
 Fu la baner del ainjiie, 
 Ke li Quens Marejchaus avoit 
 Mis el Jervice ke il devoit, 
 Por ce ke il ne i pooit venir. 
 II ne me puet pas Jbuvenir 
 Ke baneret i fuijfent plus ; 
 Mes Ji le voir vous en conclus, 
 Bons bachelers i ot ben cent. 
 Dent nuls en ojlel ne dejcent 
 Nule foiz tant ke il aient touz 
 Cerchiez les pajjages doutouz. 
 
 In body, and enriched in heart. 
 He had a valiant father, who wholly abandoned 
 Th5 garbs and ajjumed the lion ; 
 And who taught his brave children 
 To imitate him, ' 
 And to ajjbciate with the nobles. 
 Nicholas ujed his father's banner, 
 "With a red label, on account of his brother, 
 John, who was the eldejl. 
 And who bore it entire. 
 The father had by his wife 
 Five fons, who were knights. 
 Valiant and bold and courageous. 
 Sable with a Jilver lion 
 Rampant, crowned with fine gold, 
 Was the banner of the eldejl. 
 Whom the Earl Marjhal had Jent 
 To execute his duties, 
 Becaufe he could not come there. 
 I cannot recoiled! 
 
 What other bannerets were there ; 
 But to Jay truth in conclujion 
 There were full a hundred good bachelors, 
 Not one of whom dijmounts into lodgings, 
 Until they have all 
 Examined the Ju/pe6fed pajfes. 
 
 afterwards pardoned him. He rofe high in favour with 
 Edward II, and was, in the firft year of his reign, appointed 
 Governor of the Caftle of Northampton, and conftituted 
 Marfhal of England, an appointment which led to a ferious 
 quarrel with the Earl Marfhal. Nicholas de Segrave died 
 in 1322. The arms of Segrave are the fubjeft of the fol- 
 lowing remarks by Sir Harris Nicolas : " The arms of 
 Nicholas de Segrave are not defcribed in the poem in a fuf- 
 ficiently explicit manner, and Glover's conftru6lion of that 
 account of them feems flightly erroneous ; for, in the 
 Cottonian MS. they are thus blazoned, * De fable, a un lion 
 rampant de argent, corone de or, a un label de goules,' The 
 fa6t mentioned in the poem, of his father having relinquifhed 
 the garbs and adopted the lion, is particularly curious, for 
 it eftablifhes a point which hitherto only refted on conjec- 
 ture 5 and ftill more, becaufe it fliows the great accuracy of 
 the poet's ftatements. In fome remarks on the feals attached 
 to the Barons' Letter to the Pope, in the * Archaeologia,' 
 vol. xxi. the following paflage occurs on the feal of John 
 de Segrave : 'The arms on the feal of John de Segrave are 
 a lion rampant, crowned ; and on each fide of the ftiield 
 is a garb. This circumftance requires attention, becaufe 
 Burton, in his ' Hiftory of Leicefterfhire,' ftates that the an- 
 cient arms of Segrave were, fable, three garbs argent, banded 
 gules ; but that they afterwards affumed, fable, a lion ram- 
 pant argent, crowned or. It is manifeft from the feal of 
 
 this baron that Burton's ftatement was not entirely without 
 foundation, though, unlefs by the words * ancient arms,' he 
 meant anterior to the reign of Edward the Firft, it is certain 
 that the arms of that family were what they afterwards bore, 
 but that the garb was introduced on their feals, poflibly as 
 an ornament or device. From this and fimilar devices it is 
 very likely that the fubfequent ufage of cognizances owed 
 its fource.' The notice in the Roll of Caerlaverock of the 
 garbs and the lion is then alluded to ; and it may now be 
 added, that the placing charges on the exterior of the fliield 
 on feals approached much nearer to the fubfequent fyftem 
 of quartering arms, and feems often to have been adopted 
 from a fimilar principle, namely, of perpetuating a defcent 
 from the family of a maternal anceftor." 
 
 John de Segrave was a ftatefman of very great eminence. 
 At the death of his father, in the 2 3rd of Edward I, he was 
 thirty-nine years of age. He was engaged in all Edward's 
 wars, and afted a very prominent part in moft of them. 
 That king made him his Lieutenant of Scotland. On the 
 acceffion of Edward II. he was appointed Governor of Not- 
 tingham Caftle, and Juftice of the Forefts beyond the Trent. 
 Thefe offices he refigned in the year following, and was 
 afterwards appointed Warden of Scotland. He was taken 
 prifoner by the Scots in the battle of Bannockburn. He 
 died in Gafcony in 1325. Arms, fable, a lion rampant 
 argent, crowned or. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK, 
 
 O eus chevauchent chejun jour 
 Li marejcal, li herbirgour, 
 Ki livrent places a logier 
 A ecus ke devent herberger. 
 Par tant ai dit de I'avant garde, 
 Ki font dedenz e ki la guarde. 
 
 ;^Kfj^OHANS li bons Quens de Warenne 
 »^ De 1' autre chel avoit la renne 
 
 A jujlicer e governer, 
 Cum cil ky bien Javoit mener 
 Gent Jegnourie e honnouree. 
 De or e de ajur ejchequere 
 Fu Ja baniere noblement, 
 
 OT en Jon ajOTemblement 
 Henri de Perci, Jon nevou, 
 
 De ky Jembloit ke eujl fait vou 
 
 De aler les EJcos derompant ; 
 
 Jaune o un bleu lyon rampant 
 
 Fu Ja baner bien vuable. 
 
 jOBERT le fiz Paien fievable 
 Ot Ja baner flanc a flanc, 
 Rouge a pajjans lyons de blanc, 
 Trois de un bajloun bleu Jurgettez. 
 
 AUTIERS de Money ajoujlez 
 EJloit en cele compaigneye ; 
 Kar tuit furent de une maijhie. 
 
 With them ride every day 
 
 The marjhals and the harbingers, 
 
 Who ajjign lodgings 
 
 To thoje who were entitled to them. 
 
 Thus far I have Jpoken of thofe 
 
 Who are in and form the vanguard. 
 
 JOHN the good Earl of Warenne^ 
 Of the other Jquadron held the reins 
 To regulate and govern, 
 As he who well knew how to lead 
 Noble and honourable men. 
 His banner with gold and azure 
 Was nobly checquered. 
 
 Kp,KJND he had in his company 
 h^t^ Henri de Percy,^ his nephew, 
 Who Jeemed to have made a vow 
 To rout the Scots ; 
 A blue lion rampant on yellow 
 Was his banner very conspicuous. 
 
 OBERT Fitz-Payne,' following. 
 Had his banner, Jide by Jide, 
 Red, with three white lions pajfant, 
 Surcharged with a blue baton. 
 
 ^^DDED to thefe Walter de Money* 
 K^^ Was in that company ; 
 For they were all of one houfehold. 
 
 * John, Earl of Warren and Surrey, was the fon of 
 William, Earl of Warren and Surrey, by Maude, the widow 
 of Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, and fucceeded to his fa- 
 ther's eftates and dignities in 1240, when he is faid to have 
 been only five years of age. He ferved in the royal army 
 at the battle of Lewes, but deferted and joined the baronial 
 party, and afterwards changed fides again, fo that he fought 
 in the king's army at the battle of Eveftiam. He was in 
 command in Scotland in 1296, and gained the battle of 
 Dunbar againft the Scots ; after which he was appointed 
 Regent of Scotland, and General of all the Englifh forces 
 north of the Trent. In 1297 he fuftained a fevere defeat 
 in the battle of Stirling. He died in Scotland in 1304. 
 Arms, cheeky or and azure. 
 
 ' Henry de Percy was the third fon of Henry Lord Percy, 
 but fucceeded to the barony in confequence of the death of 
 his brothers under age, he himfelf being then (in 1272) very 
 young. After a very diftinguiflied military career in Scot- 
 land, he flood in favour with the new king, Edward II, in 
 the third year of whofe reign he purchafed Alnwick, which 
 thus came into the Percy family. Lord Percy was after- 
 
 wards the determined opponent of the favourite Gavefton, 
 and joined with the party of the Earl of Lancafter, but fub- 
 lequently made his peace and obtained the king's pardon. 
 He died in 1315, and was buried in Fountains Abbey. 
 Arms, or, a lion rampant azure. 
 
 * Robert Fitz-Payne was a Dorfetfhire baron, who fuc- 
 ceeded to his family title and eftates in 128 1, when he was 
 feventeen years of age. In the 33rd Edward I. he was ap- 
 pointed Governor of Corfe Caftle, and in the year following 
 he was made a Knight of the Bath with Prince Edward. 
 He appears to have enjoyed that prince's favour, for imme- 
 diately after his acceflion to the throne he was appointed 
 Governor of Winchefter Caftle, and was made Steward of 
 the King's Houfehold. He died in 1315. Arms, gules, 
 three lions paflant argent, a bend azure. 
 
 * Of Walter de Mouncy little more appears to be known 
 than that he was a Yorkfhire baron, lord of Thornton, in 
 that county, and that he ferved frequently in the wars in 
 Scotland. He died in the 2nd Edward II, when he held 
 the poft of Keeper of the Caftle of Fraralingham. ArmSy 
 cheeky argent and gules. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 Cil ot baner ejchequeree, 
 De blanc e rouge couloure. 
 
 He had his banner chequered 
 Of Jilver and red. 
 
 |E Walence Aymars li vaillans 
 Bele baniere i fu baillans, 
 De argent e de ajiir burelee, 
 O la bordure poralee 
 Tout entour de rouges merlos. 
 
 ^^^ YMER de Valence^ the valiant 
 ^ Bore a handjbme banner there 
 
 Of Jilver and azure barry, 
 Surrounded by a border 
 Of red martlets. 
 
 |N vaillant home e de grant los 
 O lui, Nichole de Karru, 
 Dont meinte foiz orent paru 
 Li fait en convert e en lande 
 Sur la felloune gent d'Irlande ; 
 Baniere ot jaune bien pajjable, 
 O treis lyouns pajjans de Jable. 
 
 ^faSJ valiant man of great praije 
 l^^h Was with him, Nicholas de Carew,^ 
 Whoje deeds had often been displayed 
 Both in cover and on the plain 
 Againjl the rebellious people of Ireland ; 
 He had a handjbme yellow banner, 
 With three lions pajjant Jable. 
 
 JOGERS de la Ware ovec eus, 
 Uns chevalers Jagis e preus, 
 Ki les armes ot vermellettis 
 O blonc lyoun e croijjellettes. 
 
 jITH them was Roger de la Ware,' 
 A wije and valiant knight, 
 WhoJe arms were vermilion, 
 With a white lion and crojjlets. 
 
 ' Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, was the third 
 fon of William de Valence, created Earl of Pembroke by 
 his uterine brother, King Henry III, and was born about 
 the year 1280. His two elder brothers having died with- 
 out iflue, he fucceeded his father in his honours on the 1 3th 
 of June, 1296. From that time he a6led a very prominent 
 part in the events of his time. He was frequently employed 
 as ambaflador or commiflioner to treat with foreign powers. 
 In the 34th of Edward I. he had the chief command of the 
 Englifh army employed againft Robert Bruce. He accom- 
 panied Edward in his laft expedition to Scotland, and was 
 one of thofe who attended at that monarch's death, and re- 
 ceived his dying injun6lions to afford his fon their counfel 
 and fupport, and not to permit Piers de Gavefton to return 
 into England. He officiated as Earl of Pembroke at the 
 coronation of Edward II, and was fent the fame year with 
 Otho de Grandifon on an embaffy to the Pope. In the 
 3rd of Edward II. he united with the Earl of Lancafter 
 againft Gavefton, and he was one of thofe who compafled 
 the death of that favourite. He was again fent on a mif- 
 fion to Rome in the 6th of Edward II. Next year he was 
 appointed Cuftos and Lieutenant of Scotland until the arri- 
 val of the king, and he was prefent at the battle of Bannock- 
 burn, in which fome accufed him of afting either a cowardly 
 or a treacherous part. In the 9th Edward II. he was a 
 commiffioner for holding a parliament in the king's abfence. 
 Afterwards, in another miffion to the Pope, he was taken 
 prifoner on his way home, and delivered to the emperor, 
 who kept him fome time in confinement. In the nth 
 Edward 11. he was again engaged in the Scottifti wars j 
 
 and, in the 13th of the fame king, he was conftituted 
 Guardian of the Realm during the king's purpofed vifit to 
 France, being at the fame time alfo Cuftos of Scotland. In 
 the 15th Edward II. he fat in judgment on the Earl of 
 Lancafter at Pontefraft, by which he feems to have gained 
 ftill firmer hold on the king's favour. In 1323, the Earl 
 of Pembroke accompanied Queen Ifabella to France, where 
 he died the fame year; fome fay, flain in a tournament, 
 though others have intimated that he was murdered. Ac- 
 cording to another account, he feems to have died of apo- 
 plexy. But the true circumftances of the death of this baron 
 remain uncertain. Arms of Valence, barry, argent and 
 azure, an orle of martlets gules. 
 
 * Nicholas de Carew was a baron who had particularly 
 diftinguifhed himfelf in the wars in Ireland. The family 
 is fuppofed to have fprung from Otho de Windfor, the 
 common anceftors of the illuftrious families of Windfor and 
 Fitzgerald, The name of Nicholas de Carew appears at- 
 tached to the letter of the barons to the Pope, in the 29th of 
 Edward I, where he is defcribed as Lord of Mulesford. It 
 appears to be unknown when he was born or when he died. 
 Arms, or, three lions paffant in pale fable. 
 
 ' Roger la Wane was in the expedition made into Wales 
 in the loth of Edward I, and three years afterwards he ob- 
 tained the king's licenfe for a weekly market in his Manor 
 of Warrewike in Gloucefterfhire. In the letter of the 
 barons to the Pope he is defcribed as Lord of Infeld. In 
 the 26th of Edward I. he was Governor of the Caftle of 
 Burgh in Gafcony. He died in 1320, Arms, gules, femee 
 of crofs crofllets, a lion rampant argent. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 jE Warewik le Conte Guy, 
 Coment ke en ma rime le guy, 
 Ne avoit vefyn de luy mellour ; 
 Baner ot de rouge colour, 
 O fejje de or e croijjillie. 
 
 jF Warwick the Earl Guy,^ 
 However I may bring him in my rhyme, 
 There was not a better neighbour than he ; 
 He bore a red banner 
 With a fefs of gold and crufiUy. 
 
 SAUNE o crois noire engreelie 
 |j La portoit Johans de Mooun. 
 
 jELLOW with a black crojs engrailed 
 John de Mohun^ bore there. 
 
 JELE de Tatejhale a oun 
 For Ja valour o eus tiree, 
 De or e de rouge ejchequere, 
 Au chef de ermine outreement. 
 
 ^^HAT of TateJhaP for his valour 
 [^ They have taken with them, 
 
 It was of gold and red chequered. 
 With a chief ermine. 
 
 JAUF le filz Guillieme autrement 
 Ke cil de Valence portoit ; 
 Car en lieu des merlos mettoit . 
 Trois chapeaus de rojis vermeilles, 
 Ki bien avienent a mervellez. 
 
 JALPH Fitz-William* differently 
 Bore from that of Valence ; 
 For injlead of martlets he placed 
 Three chaplets of red rofes. 
 Which become him marvelloujly. 
 
 UILLEMES de Ros ajemblans 
 I fu rouge o trois bouz blans. 
 
 ILL! AM de Ros^ along with them 
 ll Was red with three white bougets. 
 
 ' Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, fucceeded his 
 father, William, Earl of Warwick, in Mayor June, 1296, 
 at which time he was twenty-fix years of age. He dif- 
 tinguiftied himfelf at the battle of Falkirk, and was aftively 
 employed in the Scottifh wars. It was this Earl of War- 
 wick to whom, on account of his fwarthy complexion, the 
 favourite Gavefton gave the nickname of " the black dog 
 of Arden." He appears never to have been in favour with 
 Edward II. He died at Warwick Caftle, on the 12th of 
 Auguft, 1 316, aged about forty-four years, and was fuf- 
 pe6led to have been poifoned. Arms, g"les, crufilly, and a 
 fefs or ; or, as they are now blazoned, gules, a fefs between 
 fix crofs crofllets or. 
 
 * John de Mohun fucceeded hisfather, of the fame name, 
 who died in France on the nth of June, 1279. He was 
 born about the year 1269. In the 27th of Edward I. he 
 exchanged his lands in Ireland with the king for the Manor 
 of Long Compton in Warwicklhire. He is defcribed in the 
 letter to the Pope as " Lord of Dunfterre." He died in 
 1330, at the age of fixty-one. Arms, or, a crofs engrailed 
 fable. 
 
 ' Robert de Tatefhall was born in 1274, and fucceeded 
 his father of the fame name in his dignity and pofleflions in 
 1297. He was in the expedition into Gafconyin the 25th 
 of Edward I, and was about twenty-feven years of age at 
 the time of the fiege of Caerlaverock. Arms, cheeky or and 
 gules, a chief ermine. 
 
 * Ralph Fitz- William was the fon of William Fitz-Ralph, 
 
 Lord of Grimfthorpe, in Yorkfhire, and was, in the 24th 
 of Edward I, conftituted Lieutenant of Yorkfliire, and 
 Warden of the Marches. He was alfo joined in a com- 
 miflion with the Biihop of Durham and others to fortify 
 the caftles in Scotland. He was conftantly employed in 
 the Scottifh wars during this and the following reigns ; and, 
 in the 7th of Edward II, he was made Governor of Berwick- 
 upon-Tweed, and joined with Lord Mowbray and others 
 in the Wardenfhip of the Marches. He was appointed in 
 the following year Governor of Carlifle. This family at a 
 later period afTumed the name of Greyftock, and inherited 
 the lands of that family. Ralph Fitz- William died about 
 the feaft of All Saints, 13 16, at an advanced age. Arms, 
 barry argent and azure, three chaplets gules. 
 
 * William de Rofs was born about the year 126 1, and 
 fucceeded his father, Robert de Rofs, in the 1 9th of Ed- 
 ward I, at which time he was one of the claimants to the 
 crown of Scotland ; but his claim was bafed on no very 
 folid foundations, and gained very little attention. He 
 was aftively employed in all Edward's Scottifh war, and 
 ferved the Englifh crown with remarkable fidelity. In 
 the I ft of Edward II. he was appointed one of the king's 
 Lieutenants in Scotland, which office was foon afterwards 
 conferred upon John de Segrave ; but William de Rofs was 
 appointed, in the 7th Edward II, one of the wardens of the 
 Weft Marches of Scotland. He died, in 13 16, at the age 
 of little more than fifty-five, and was buried in the priory 
 of Kirkham. Arms, gules, three water bougets argent. 
 
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THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK, 
 
 LA baniere Hue Pointz 
 Ejloit barree de viiij poinz, 
 De or e de goules ovelment. 
 
 ^^ ND the banner of Hugh Pointz* 
 t^^ Was barry of nine pieces, 
 
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 OHANS de Beuchamp propirment 
 Portoit la baniere de vair, 
 
 Au douz tens e au Jbuef air. 
 
 I^^RESTES a bajcier les ventailes, 
 g4Jitf^J Enji Je aroutent les batailes, 
 Dont ja de deus oi avez ; 
 E de la terce oir devez, 
 
 jDEWARS, fires de Irois, 
 De EJcos e de Engleter rois, 
 Princes de Galois, dues de Aquitaine, 
 La terce ejchel un poi loingtaine 
 Conduit, e guye arreement 
 Si bel e Ji Jerreement, 
 Ke nuls de autre ne je depart. 
 En Ja banier trois lupart, 
 De or fin ejloient mis en rouge, 
 Courant, feloun, fier, e harouge ; 
 Par tel jignifiance mis, 
 Ke anji ejl vers jes enemis 
 Li Rois fiers, felons, e haujlans ; 
 Car Ja morjure ne ejl tajlans 
 Nul, ki ne en Jbit envenimez. 
 Non porquant tojl ejl ralumez 
 De douce debonairete, 
 Kant il requerent Je amijle, 
 E a Ja pais vuellent venir. 
 Tel prince doit bien avenir 
 De granz genz ejlre chievetaine. 
 
 jjON nevou Johan de Bretaigne, 
 Por ce ke plus ejl de li pres, 
 Doi je plus tojl nomer apres. 
 
 Of or and gules equally. 
 
 JOHN de Beauchamp*^ properly 
 Carried a banner of vair. 
 In warm weather and pleajant air. 
 
 jEADY to lower their ventailes. 
 Thus the divijions went on their march ; 
 Of two of them you have already heard ; 
 And of the third you are now to hear. 
 
 DWARD, lord of the Irijh, 
 King of Scotland and England, 
 Prince of Wales, and duke of Aquitaine, 
 The third jquadron rather dijlant 
 Condufls, and direSs the array 
 So fair and Jo clojely 
 That no one Jeparates from the other. 
 On his banner were three leopards 
 Of fine gold, Jet on red, 
 Courant, fierce, haughty, and cruel ; 
 Thus placed to jignify that. 
 Like them, towards his enemies 
 The King is dreadful, fierce, and proud ; 
 For none experience his bite 
 Who are not envenomed by it. 
 Neverthelejs he is Jbon reanimated 
 With gentle kindnefs. 
 If they Jeek his friendjhip, 
 And are willing to come to his peace. 
 Such a prince is well dejerving 
 To be the chieftain of a great nation. 
 
 jIS nephew John of Britany,' 
 Becauje he is nearer related to him, 
 I mujl mention firjl after him. 
 
 ' Hugh Pointz was the fon and heir of Nicholas Pointz, 
 of the county of Somerfet, and fucceeded his father in his 
 lands in the ift of Edward I, 1273, at which time he was 
 of full age. He ferved that prince in all his wars in Wales, 
 Gafcony, and Scotland, and muft have been at leaft forty- 
 eight years of age at the fiege of Caerlaverock. He died 
 in 1333, leaving an only fon, Nicholas Pointz. Arms, 
 barry or and gules. 
 
 ' John de Beauchamp was born in 1273, and fucceeded 
 
 his father in the 12th Edward I, when he was ten years old. 
 In the 29th of Edward I. he obtained a grant from the king 
 of a weekly market and yearly fair in his manor of Hache, 
 in Somerfetfhire. He was thus, at the time of the fiege of 
 Caerlaverock, a young man, little more than twenty-feven 
 years of age. He died in 1336, having ferved in the field 
 under three kings. Arms, vaire. 
 
 ' John of Dreux, afterwards Earl of Richmond, was the 
 youngeft fon of John, Duke of Britany, by Beatrice Plan- 
 
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 THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 Si le avoit-il ben defervi, 
 Cum cil ki Jon oncle ot fervi 
 De Je enfance peniblement, 
 E deguerpi outreement 
 Son pere e fon autre lignage, 
 For demourer de fon maifnage, 
 Kant li Rois ot bojoign de gens. 
 E il, ki ejloit beaus e gens, 
 Baniere avoit cointe e paree, 
 De or e de ajur ejchequere, 
 A rouge curie o jaunes lupars, 
 De ermine ejloit la quart pars. 
 
 lOHANS de Bar iluec ejtoit, 
 Is Ke en la baner Inde portoit 
 Deuz bars de or, e fu croijjilie, 
 O la rouge ourle engreelie. 
 
 lUILLEMES de Grantfon palee 
 De argent et de aJur, furalee 
 De bende rouge, o trois eigleaus, 
 Portoit de or fin bien fais e beaus. 
 
 jlEN doi mettere en mon ferventois 
 Ke Elys de Aubigni li courtois 
 
 And this preference he has well dejerved, 
 
 For having Jerved his uncle 
 
 Laborioujly from his infancy, 
 
 And abandoned entirely 
 
 His father and other relations, 
 
 To dwell in his houjehold, 
 
 When the King had occajion for men 
 
 And he, who was handfome and gentle. 
 
 Had a beautiful and ornamented banner 
 
 Chequered with gold and azure. 
 
 With a red border and yellow leopards, 
 
 And a quarter of ermine. 
 
 OHN de Bar^ was there, 
 s*" Who on a blue banner bore 
 
 Cruijilly two barbels of gold. 
 With a red border engrailed. 
 
 jILLIAM de Grandifon^ bore paly 
 Silver and azure, Jiircharged 
 With a red bend, and thereon three eaglets 
 Of fine gold, well made and beautiful. 
 
 lELL ought I to Jlate in my poem 
 That the courteous Elias d' Aubigni' 
 
 tagenet, fecond daughter of King Henry III, and was born 
 in 1266. He was placed under the proteflion of his uncle, 
 King Edward I, whom he ferved with great zeal and fidelity. 
 He was general of the Englifti army fent into Gafcony in 
 1293. In the 23rd of Edward I. he was conftituted Lieu- 
 tenant of Scotland. He was created Earl of Richmond on 
 the 15th of 0(5lober, 1306. He was in favour with Ed- 
 ward II, who appointed him his Lieutenant of Scotland on 
 his acceffion ; was engaged in his Scottifh wars, and was 
 taken prifoner by the Scots in the 13th year of his reign. 
 In the 1 8th of Edward II, after his releafe from captivity, 
 he was fent as one of the ambafladors to the King of France, 
 on the fubjeft of the Duchy of Aquitaine. In the ift of 
 Edward III. John of Dreux obtained a licence to grant the 
 Earldom of Richmond to his brother Arthur, Duke of 
 Britany; in the 5th of Edward III. he received a fimilar 
 permiflion to grant to Mary de Saint Paul, Countefs of 
 Pembroke, fome caftles and manors belonging to that earl- 
 dom ; and, in the 7th of Edward III, leave was given him 
 to refide beyond the fea. He muft have died very foon after 
 this permiffion, for his death is faid to have taken place on 
 the 17th of January, 1334.. Arms, cheeky or and azure, 
 a border gules, charged with lions paffant gardant of the 
 firft, a quarter ermine. " This coat prefents an example of 
 the arrangement of different arms upon the fame ihield be- 
 fore the fyftem of quartering was adopted, which is too 
 curious to be allowed to pafs unobferved. The arms of 
 Dreux were cheeky or and azure j on the marriage of that 
 
 houfe with the heirefs of Britany, they placed the coat of 
 that family, ermine, on a quarter; and, as a diftin6lion,the 
 enfigns of the fubjeft of this note were furrounded by a 
 border of England, his mother's arms." — Nicolas. 
 
 ' John de Barr, of whom nothing is known, is conjec- 
 tured from his arms to have been one of the ten children of 
 Thibaut, fecond Count of Bar, who died about 1296, by 
 Jeanne de Toci. Thibaut's eldeft fon, Henri, Count of Bar, 
 had a few years before married Eleanor, daughter of King 
 Edward I. Arms, azure, femee of crofs crofllets, two barbels 
 endorfed or, within a bordure engrailed gules. 
 
 * William de Grandifon was the younger brother of 
 Otho de Grandifon, and on the nth of Odober, 1282, re- 
 ceived from Edmond, Earl of Lancafter, a grant of the 
 Manors of Radley and Menftreworth, in Gloucefterftiire, in 
 return for fervices rendered to that prince. In the 20th of 
 Edward I. he obtained licence to caftellate his houfe at 
 Afperton, in Herefordftiire, and two years afterwards he was 
 employed in the expedition to Gafcony. He ferved fre- 
 quently in the Scottilh wars. He died in 1355. Arms, 
 paly argent and azure, on a bend gules three eagles dif- 
 played or. 
 
 ' Elias d'Aubigny fucceeded his brother Philip in the 
 barony in the 22nd of Edward I, 1294, when he was thirty 
 years of age. He was not of Englifh birth, for, in reward 
 for the fervices rendered by himfelf and his anceftors, he was 
 naturalized in the 23rd of Edward I. He died in 1305. 
 Arms, gules, a fefs engrailed argent. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 ii 
 
 Baniere ot rouge, ou entaillie 
 Ot fejje blanche engreellie. 
 
 ]ES Eumenions de la Brette 
 La baner ot tout rougette. 
 
 ^w^ PRES ceus ci truis en mon conte 
 h^^ Hue de Ver, le filz au Conte 
 
 De Oxinfort, e frere Jon hoir. 
 O le ourle endentee de noir 
 Avoit baniere e longe e lee, 
 De ore e de rouge ejquartelee ; 
 De bon cendal, non pas de toyle, 
 E devant une blanche ejloyle. 
 
 Had a red banner, on which was figured 
 A white fejs engrailed. 
 
 |UT Eurmenions de la Brette^ 
 Had a banner entirely red. 
 
 TaSJFTER theje I find in my Jlory 
 Hugh de Vere,* Jon of the Earl 
 Of Oxford, and brother to his heir. 
 With the border indented with black 
 He had a banner both long and broad, 
 Quartered gold and red. 
 Of good Jilk, not of cloth, 
 And in front a white Jlar. 
 
 jOHANS de Riviers le appareil 
 Ot majcle de or e de vermeil ; 
 E par tant compare le a on 
 Au bon Morice de Croon. 
 
 jOBERT le Jeignour de Cliifort, 
 A ki raijbns donne confort 
 
 \ OHN de Rivers' had his caparifons 
 ^ Majcally of gold and vermilion ; 
 And therefore Jimilar to thoje 
 Of the good Maurice de Creon."* 
 
 jOBERT the lord of Clifford,^ 
 To whom reajbn gives conjblation 
 
 ' Eurmenions de la Brette, though evidently not a native 
 of England, was held in great confideration in the courts of 
 Edward I. and Edward II, and was frequently employed in 
 diplomatic affairs. He was, in fa6l, defcended from a noble 
 family in Gafcony. He was one of the commiflioners ap- 
 pointed in 1307 to treat for a peace between England and 
 France. His arms were merely gules. 
 
 * Hugh de Vere was a younger fon of Robert de Vere, 
 Earl of Oxford, and is firft mentioned as being in the wars 
 of France in the 21 ft of Edward I, when he was appointed 
 Governor of St. Cyverine. After this time we find him 
 frequently employed in diplomatic affairs of importance. 
 In his fignature to the letter from the barons to the Pope, 
 he is ftyled Lord of Swainfchaump. He attended the coro- 
 nation of Edward II, and is prefumed to have died about 
 the 12th year of that king's reign. Arms, quarterly gules 
 and or, in the firft quarter a mullet argent ; the whole within 
 a bordure indented fable. (The border was afl'umed as a 
 difference from the arms of his brother, the Earl of Oxford.) 
 
 * John de Rivers is ftated to have fucceeded to the lands 
 of his father, John de Rivers, in the 22nd of Edward I, and 
 he is called in the letter of the Englifh barons to the Pope, 
 " Lord of Angre," but very little is known of him. He 
 died in 1 31 1, and was fucceeded by a fon of the fame name. 
 Arms, according to the poem, mafcally or and gules ; but 
 a contemporary manufcript, MS. Cotton, Caligula A. xviii. 
 the authority of which is adopted by Glover, fays that they 
 were " de goules, a vi. malbles de or." 
 
 * Maurice de Creon was no doubt a member of the 
 illuftrious houfe of Creon, or Craon, in Anjou, which was 
 nearly related in blood to King Edward 1 5 but nothing is 
 
 known of him individually. His arms are ftated in the 
 poem to have been the fame as thofe of John de Rivers, that 
 is, mafcally or and gules 5 or they were, more probably, 
 gules, feven mafcles or. 
 
 * Robert de Clifford was a baron greatly diftinguifhed 
 by his fervices during the reigns of Edward I. and Edward 
 II. He was the eldeft fon of Roger de Clifford, who was 
 accidentally killed between Snowdon and Anglefey in 1280. 
 Born in 1274, he fucceeded his grandfather in his baronial 
 honours in 1286, when he was but twelve years of age. He 
 muft have difplayed early talents, for he is ftated to have 
 been prefent at the battle of Dunbar, in 1296, when he was 
 only twenty-two, and to have been placed in the year fol 
 lowing in command of a hundred men-at-arms and twenty 
 thoufand foot, fent from Carlifle on a plundering expedition 
 into Scotland. The fame year he was appointed juftice of 
 all the king's forefts beyond the Trent ; and the next yeai 
 he was appointed Governor of Nottingham Caftle. As it 
 appears from the poem, he diftinguifhed himfelf much at 
 the fiege of Caerlaverock, and was made governor of the 
 caftle when it furrendered. He attended Edward's death- 
 bed, in 1307, and was one of thofe who received the king's 
 injun6tions to prevent the return of Gavefton. In the ift 
 of Edward II. Robert de Clifford was conftituted Earl 
 Marfhal of England, and in the year following he was 
 made Warden of the Marches of Scotland, and foon after- 
 wards Governor of that kingdom. He was a firm adherent 
 to Thomas, Earl of Lancafter. He was flain in the battle 
 of Bannockburn, on the 25th of June, 13 14, being then 
 only forty years of age. Arms, cheeky or and azure, a fefs 
 gules. 
 
12 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAFEROCK. 
 
 De Jes enemis emcombrer, 
 
 Toutes le foiz ki remembrer 
 
 Ki puet de jbn noble Hgnage. 
 
 EJcoce pregn a teijmoignage, 
 
 Ke ben e noblement commence, 
 
 Cum cil ki ejl de la Jemence 
 
 Le Conte Marejchal le noble, 
 
 Ki par dela Cojlentinoble 
 
 A I'unicorn Je combati, 
 
 E dejbuz li mort le abati. 
 
 De li de par mere ejl venus. 
 
 A ki fu ben pareil tenus, 
 
 Li bons Rogers, pere Jbn pere ; 
 
 Mes ne ot value ki ne apere 
 
 Rejujcitee el filz del filz ; 
 
 Parcoi ben jai ke onques ne en fiz 
 
 Loenge dont il ne Jbit dignes. 
 
 Car en li ejl auji bon Jignes 
 
 De ejlre preudom ke en nul ke en voie. 
 
 Le Roi Jbn bon Jeignour connoie 
 
 Sa baniere mout honouree, 
 
 De or e de ajur ejchequere, 
 
 O une fejfe vermellette. 
 
 Si je ejloie une pucellette, 
 
 Je li donroie quer e cors, 
 
 Tant ejl de li bons li recors. 
 
 To overcome his enemies. 
 
 Every time he calls to memory 
 
 The fame of his noble lineage. 
 
 He calls Scotland to bear witnejs, 
 
 That he begins well and nobly, 
 
 As one who is of the race 
 
 Of the noble Earl Marjhal, 
 
 Who beyond Conjlantinople 
 
 Fought with the unicorn, 
 
 And Jlruck him dead beneath him. 
 
 From him he is dejcended through his mother. 
 
 The good Roger, his father's father. 
 
 Was confidered equal to him ; 
 
 But he had no merit which does not appear 
 
 To be revived in his grandjbn ; 
 
 Wherefore I well know that I have given him no 
 
 Praije of which he is not worthy. 
 
 For he exhibits as good proofs 
 
 Of wijdom and prudence as any I Jee 
 
 The king his good lord knows 
 
 His much honoured banner 
 
 Chequered with gold and azure, 
 
 With a vermilion fejs. 
 
 If I were a young maiden, 
 
 I would give him my heart and perjbn. 
 
 So good is his fame. 
 
 ^^SSU bon Hue le Dejpenjier, 
 >^A Ki vajjaument Jur le courjler 
 Savoit dejrompre une mellee, 
 Fu la baniere ejquartelee 
 De une noir bajloun Jur blanc gette, 
 E de vermeil jaune frette. 
 
 jF the good Hugh le Dejpenjer,^ 
 Who gallantly on his courjer 
 Knows how to break through the combat. 
 The banner was quarterly 
 With a black baton on the white. 
 And of red fretty yellow. 
 
 ' Hugh le Defpencer was the eldeft fon of the celebrated 
 Jufticlary of England in the reign of Henry III, and fuc- 
 ceeded his father in 1265, when he was about twenty-nine 
 years of age. He was made Governor of Odiham Caftle, 
 in Hampftiire, in the 22nd of Edward I, and was then fum- 
 moned to attend the king into Gafcony. Two years after- 
 wards he was engaged in the Scottlfti wars, and was prefent 
 at the battle of Dunbar. In the 25th of Edward I. he at- 
 tended the king into Flanders, and was one of the com- 
 miflioners fent to treat of peace between England and 
 France. He was appointed one of the ambafladors fent to 
 the Pope in the year 1300 ; and was frequently engaged in 
 Scottilh affairs during the remainder of Edward's reign. In 
 the firft year of the reign of Edward II. he was appointed 
 Governor of the Caftles of Devizes and Marlborough ; and 
 he foon rofe rapidly in royal favour in confequence of 
 the attachment formed by the king for his eldeft fon, the 
 
 younger Hugh le Defpencer, after the death of Piers de 
 Gavefton. Subfequently, to avoid the perils arifmg from the 
 hoftility of the Englifh barons to the prefumptuous favourite, 
 the elder Defpencer abfented himfelf temporarily from the 
 kingdom. After the overthrow of the popular party at 
 Boroughbridge, the elder Defpencer was, in 1322, created 
 Earl of Winchefter, with extenfive grants of land, and he 
 was appointed Warden of the King's forefts to the fouth of 
 the Trent. The remainder of his ftory is known to every 
 one acquainted with the hiftory of England ; Hugh le 
 Defpencer the elder, then nearly ninety years of age, was 
 captured by his own garrifon in Briftol, in 1326, delivered 
 to Prince Edward, and ignominioufly executed by the judg- 
 ment of that prince. Arms, quarterly argent and gules, 
 the fecond and third quarters fretty or, over all a bend fable. 
 The fecond and third quarters are now blazoned, charged 
 with a fret, apparently a corruption from the ancient bearing. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 jEL bon Hue de Courtenay 
 La baniere oubliee ne ay, 
 De or fin o trois rouges rondeaus, 
 E ajiirins fu H labeaus. 
 
 jF the good Hugh de Courtenay* 
 I have not forgotten the banner, 
 Of fine gold with three red roundlets, 
 And the label was azur. 
 
 13 
 
 LE Amauri de Saint Amant, 
 Ki va provejle redamant, 
 De or e de noir frette au chief, 
 O trois gajleaus de or derechief. 
 
 ^w^ND that of Aumary de Saint Amand,* 
 g^^v^ Who advances, displaying his prowejs, 
 Was of gold and black fretty on a chief, 
 Three roundlets, aljb of gold. 
 
 OHANS de Engaigne le ot jolie. 
 Rouge dance de or croijjillie. 
 
 aS^-i 
 
 OHN de Engaigne^ had a handjbme one 
 Of red, cruJiUy, with a dancette of gold. 
 
 UIS i ot Watiers de Beauchamp 
 j^^&g^ Sis merlos de or el rouge champ, 
 O une fejje en lieu de dance. 
 Chivallier, felon ma evidance, 
 Uns des mellours fujl entre touz, 
 Se il ne fuJl trop fiers e ejlouz. 
 Mes vous ne ourez parler james 
 De Jenejcal ki ne ait une mes. 
 
 |EXT, Walter de Beauchamp*bore there. 
 Six martlets of gold in a red field. 
 With a fejs injlead of a dancette. 
 A Knight, according to my opinion. 
 One of the bejl among them all. 
 If he had not been too rajh and daring ; 
 But you will never hear any one fpeak 
 Of the Senefchal but there is a hut. 
 
 lIL ke a tout bien faire a cuer He 
 Au jautour noir engreellie. 
 
 IE who has a heart joyful to do all that is 
 good. 
 
 ' Hugh de Courtenay, defcended from a family the 
 hiftory of which is fo well told by Gibbon, was born in 
 1275, and fucceeded his father Hugh in the barony of Oak- 
 hampton in the February of 1291. During the latter part 
 of the reign of Edward I. he was fummoned five times to 
 ferve in the wars of Scotland, and once in Wales. He 
 would be about twenty-five years of age at the time of the 
 fiege of Caerlaverock. He obtained a more prominent 
 pofition in public affairs after the acceflion of Edward II ; 
 lei-ved in the expedition into Scotland in the eighth year of 
 this king's reign, and four years later, on the difpute be- 
 tween the king and the barons, he was appointed one of 
 the council to be about the king's perfon. In 1 335 he was 
 created Earl of Devon. He died in 1340. The ancient 
 arms of the Engliih houfe of Courtenay were, or, three 
 torteaux, a label azure ; but the label has been fince dif- 
 continued. 
 
 ^ Almaric de St. Amand fucceeded his brother Guy in 
 his lands about the fifteenth of Edward I. He was about 
 twenty-five years of age at the fiege of Caerlaverock, and 
 had already been feveral times employed in the wars of 
 Gafcony and Scotland. In the letter from the barons to 
 the Pope, in the following year, his fignature is appended 
 as " Lord of Widehaye." In the 33rd of Edward I. he 
 was commanded to give in his accounts as Governor of 
 Bordeaux, and thefe appear to have brought him into 
 
 trouble, as we find him immediately afterwards a prifoner 
 in the Tower of London. He had, however, recovered 
 court favour on the acceflion of Edward II ; for, in 
 January, 1308, in the firft year of the reign of Edward II, 
 he was one of thofe appointed to receive the young king 
 and his queen at Dover on their arrival from France. Al- 
 maric de St. Amand died in 1322. Arms, or, fretty fable ; 
 on a chief of the fecond three bezants. 
 
 * John d'Engaine was a baron of whom little is known. 
 He was thirty years of age in 1296, when he fucceeded his 
 father. He was employed in the wars of Scotland, and was 
 a party to the letter from the barons to the Pope, in which he 
 is ftyled " Lord of Colum." He died in 1322. Arms, 
 gules, crufiUy and a fefs or. 
 
 * Walter de Beauchamp was a man of confiderable dif- 
 tinflion in the reign of Edward I. He was a younger fon 
 of William de Beauchamp of Elmley, by Ifabel, fifter and 
 heirefs of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick. In the 
 56th of Henry III. he purchafed a moiety of the Manor of 
 Alcefter in Warwickfiiire. He was made fteward (fenef- 
 chal) of the king's houfehold in the 24th of Edward I, and 
 attended that monarch into Flanders and to Scotland, in 
 which latter country he was prefent at the battle of Falkirk. 
 He figned the letter from the barons to the Pope as " Lord 
 of Alcefter." He died in February, 1303. Arms, gules, a 
 fefs between fix martlets or. 
 
14 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 Jaune baniere ot e penon, 
 Johans Boutetourte ot a noun. 
 
 Bore a yellow banner and pennon 
 With a black Jaltire engrailed, 
 Was called John Botetourte.^ 
 
 jANIERE bel apparellie, 
 Jaune o crois rouge engreellie, 
 La Eujlace de Hache ejloit. 
 
 BANNER well ornamented, 
 Yellow with a red crojs engrailed, 
 Was that of Eujlace de Hache.^ 
 
 ^^3 DAM de Welle la portoit 
 R^^j Jaune, o un noir lyoun rampant, 
 Dont la coue en double ]e ejpant. 
 
 ^^DAM de Welles 3 bore 
 X^^ Gold, a black lion rampant. 
 
 Whofe tail Jpread itjelf into two. 
 
 jOBERT de Scales, bel et gent, 
 Le ot rouge o cokilles de argent. 
 
 jHE hand/ome and gentle Robert de 
 Scales * 
 Bore red with jhells of Jilver. 
 
 MLAM Thouchez, chevaliers de bon los, 
 Le ot vermeille a jaunes merlos. 
 
 jMLAM Touches,^ a knight of good fame, 
 Bore red, with yellow martlets. 
 
 lELE au Conte de Laonois 
 Rouge o un blanc l^'oun conois. 
 
 ^^HAT of the Count of Laonois^ 
 i^ I knov/ as red with a white lion, 
 
 ' John de Botetourt was made Governor of the Gaftle of 
 St. Briavel in Gloucefterfhire, and Warden of the Foreft of 
 Dean, in the 19th of Edward I, when we firft become ac- 
 quainted with his name. Two years afterwards he was 
 fummoned to ferve in Gafcony, at which time he was Ad- 
 miral of the King's fleet. He ferved in moft of the 
 Scottifti wars. In his fignature to the letter to the Pope he 
 is ftyled " Lord of Mendleftiam." In the 33rd of Edward I. 
 he was ftill Warden of the Foreft of Dean. From this time 
 forward his name occurs frequently in the record of public 
 events, and he was a man of confequence during the reign 
 of Edward II. In the 5th year of this reign he was 
 Governor of Framlingham Caftle, in Suffolk, and three years 
 afterwards he is again fpoken of as Admiral of the King's 
 fleet. He died in September, 1324. Arms, or, a faltire 
 engrailed fable. 
 
 * Euftacede Hacche is faid to have commenced his career 
 as a menial fervant to King Edward I, in the 7th year of 
 whofe reign he is found in that capacity. At that time, 
 however, he had become pofTeffed of property to a confider- 
 able amount, as he obtained a charter of free warren for all 
 his demefne lands at Hacche in Wiltfliire, and at Morton- 
 MerhuU and Ceftreton in Warwickfhire. He had, by merits 
 of fome kind, emerged from his comparatively humble fta- 
 tion long before the 22nd of Edward I, for in that year he 
 was made Governor of Portfmouth, and the fame year he 
 accompanied the Earl of Lancafter in the expedition into 
 Gafcony. He ferved in the earlier Scottifti wars, and was 
 prefent at the battle of Falkirk. In the 27th Edward I. 
 he was fummoned to Parliament as a baron of the realm ; 
 and he is ftyled in the letter to the Pope, " Euftace, Lord of 
 Hacche." Hediedini3o6. ^rwzj, or, a crofs engrailed gules. 
 
 ' Adam de Welles was the fon of William de Welles, 
 and was in the retinue of Willian de Vefci, in the king's 
 fervice in Gafcony in the 22nd of Edward I. In the 27th 
 of Edward I, he was made Conftable of the caftle and 
 Warden of the foreft of Rockingham ; and he is ftyled 
 " Adam Lord Welle" in the letter to the Pope. He ferved 
 in moft of Edward's Scottifti wars. He died in 1311. 
 Arms, or, a lion rampant, double queued, fable. 
 
 * Robert de Scales was the eldeft fon of a perfon of the 
 fame name whom he fucceeded in his eftates about the 50th 
 of Henry III. He appears to have been an aftive foldier 
 in all the wars of Edward I. In the Pope's letter he at- 
 taches his fignature as " Lord of Neufales." He died in 
 1305. Arms, gules, fix efcallops argent. 
 
 * The name of Emlam Touches is unknown, except by 
 the document we are printing, in which, as we fee in the 
 text, his arms are given as, gules, martlets or. 
 
 * The nobleman here fpoken of as Earl of Lennox was 
 Patrick, eighth Earl of Dunbar, who fucceeded his father 
 in that dignity in 1289, when he was forty-feven years of 
 age. He was himfelf one of the principal claimants to the 
 Crown of Scotland, but before the clofe of the year 1291 
 he fwore fealty to the Englifti Monarch, and adhered to his 
 pledge with the utmoft zeal and fidelity, although his wife 
 remained firm to the caufe of her country, uninfluenced 
 apparently by the conduft and example of her huftjand, and 
 held his Caftle of Dunbar againft the Englifli invaders. 
 The Earl of Dunbar fupported the Englifh party in Scot- 
 land adively, and we here find him ferving in Edward's army 
 at the fiege of Caerlaverock. He died in 1309. Arms, 
 gules, a lion rampant argent, within a bordure of the 
 fecond, charged with rofes of the firft. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 IS 
 
 E blanche en ejloit le ourleure, 
 A rojes de I'enchampeure. 
 
 jATRIK de Dunbar, fiz le Conte, 
 Ne la portoit par nul aconte 
 Fors de une label de inde diverje. 
 
 jICHART Suwart, ke o eus converje, 
 Noire baniere ot aprejlee, 
 O crois blance o bouz flouretee. 
 
 YMON Frefel, de cele gent, 
 Le ot noire a rojettes de argent. 
 
 rv^jE beau Brian le filz Aleyn, 
 ^^^ De courtoijie e de honnour pleyn, 
 I vi o baniere barree, 
 De or e de goules bien paree ; 
 
 And the border was white, 
 With roJes of the field. 
 
 |ATRICK of Dunbar,! fon of the Count, 
 Bore it in no way different 
 From his father, excepting a blue label. 
 
 jICHARD Suwart,^ who was in company 
 with them, 
 Had a black banner painted 
 With a white crofs, flowered at the ends. 
 
 jIMON de Frefel,^ of that company, 
 Bore black with roJes of Jilver. 
 
 jHE handjbme Brian Fitz Alan,* 
 Full of courtejy and honour, 
 I Jaw there with his well adorned banner, 
 Barry of gold and red ; 
 
 ' Patrick de Dunbar was the fon of the nobleman laft 
 mentioned, and could not have been much more than fifteen 
 years of age when he accompanied him at the fiege of 
 Caerlaverock. He fupported the Englifli interefts in Scot- 
 land, until after the battle of Bannockburn, when he made 
 his peace with King Robert Bruce, and became a diftinguifhed 
 patriot. He contributed powerfully to the capture of Ber- 
 wick from the Englifti, and was fubfequently made governor 
 of Berwick Caftle, in which he was befieged by Edward III. 
 in 1333. He had fucceeded his father as Earl of Dunbar 
 in 1 309. After the battle of Halidon-hill and the furrender 
 of Berwick to the Englifh, the Earl of Dunbar joined the 
 banner of the Englifti conqueror, but he again renounced 
 his allegiance to the king of England in 1 3 34. At the battle 
 of Durham in 1346, this nobleman, with the Steward of 
 Scotland, commanded the left wing of the Scottifli army. 
 He died in 1 368, at the advanced age of eighty years. The 
 Arms he bore at Caerlaverock were differenced from thofe 
 of his father only by a label azure. 
 
 * Richard Siward appears to have been a native of Scot- 
 land, who wavered in his fidelity between his own country 
 and the Englifh Crown. In 1292 he was in the interefts 
 of King Edward, who made him governor of the Caftles of 
 Dumfries, Wigtown, and Kirkcudbright; and in 1294. he 
 was fummoned to attend that Monarch in his expedition 
 into Wales. In the interval between thefe two events, 
 Siward had married the fifler of Simon Frefel. When we 
 hear of him again he was ferving againft the Englifh, and 
 he was one of the prifoners taken in the Caftle of Dunbar, 
 in April, 1296. He obtained his liberty by again identifying 
 himfelf with the caufe of Edward I, whom he now con- 
 tinued to ferve with zeal and good-faith, and whofe con- 
 fidence he gained. His fervices were continued to Edward 
 II, for whom he was governor of Dumfries in 1309. 
 He is fuppofed to have died in 13 10, for after that year 
 
 we hear no more of him. Arms, fable, a crofs fleury 
 argent. 
 
 ^ Simon Frefel, or more properly Simon Frafer, alfo a 
 Scot, was a man eminently diftinguifhed in the political 
 tranfaftions of this period. He was the eldeft fon of Simon 
 Frafer, the anceftor of the baronial houfes of Saltoun and 
 Lovat. In the 25th of Edward I. he was King Edward's 
 prifoner, but he obtained his liberty by an engagement to 
 ferve that king in his foreign wars, and gave his wife and 
 children as hoflages for the due performance of his engage- 
 ment. He had deferted the Englifh, probably at the fame 
 time with Richard Siward, for he is faid to have been taken 
 prifoner at Dunbar in 1296, and, like Siward, obtained his 
 releafe by again fwearing fealty to the Englifh Monarch. 
 We fee here that he was ferving in Edward's army at the 
 fiege of Caerlaverock, and we learn from other fources that 
 he was then Warden of the Foreft of Selkirk. In 1302, 
 he deferted the Englifh, and in the year following he de- 
 feated a detachment of King Edward's army at Roflin ; 
 but Edward's fortunes were foon again in the afcendant, 
 and after the defeat of Robert Bruce in 1 306, Frefel, having 
 fallen into the hands of the Englifh, was tried and executed 
 as a traitor. ^r;^j, fable, femee of rofes argent. 
 
 ■• Brian Fitz Alan fucceeded his father of the fame name 
 before the 5th of Edward I. In the 14th of Edward I. he 
 obtained permiffion to caftellate his houfe at Kilwardeby 
 in Yorkfhire. In the 20th of Edward I. he was one of 
 that king's vicegerents in Scotland. On the loth of 
 July, 1296, he was a witnefs to John Baillol's furrender of 
 the Scottifh Crown, and Edward appointed him his Lieute- 
 nant of Scotland. He was probably fomewhat advanced in 
 years at the time of the fiege of Caerlaverock, and he died 
 in 1302. Arms, according to our poem, barry or and 
 gules ; or, according to another nearly contemporary record 
 in the Cottonian Library, gules, three bars or. 
 
i6 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 Dont de chalenge ejloit li poinz 
 Par entre li t Hue Poinz, 
 Ki portoit tel ne plus ne meins, 
 Dont merveille avoit meinte e meins. 
 
 Which was the jubjefl of dijpute 
 Between him and Hugh Pointz, 
 Who bore the Jame, neither more nor less, 
 At which many marvelled, man and woman. 
 
 UIS i fu Rogiers de Mortaigne, 
 3 Ki Je peine ke honnour ataigne ; 
 Jaune le ot, o Jis bleus lyons, 
 Dont les coues doubles dioms. 
 
 I HEN there was Roger de Mortaigne,^ 
 Who Jlrives that he may acquire honour ; 
 He bore yellow with Jix blue lions, 
 The tails of which we jay were double. 
 
 DE Hontercombe li beaus 
 
 De ermine o deus rouges jumeaus. 
 
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 ND the handjbme Huntercombe,^ 
 Ermine with two red gemells. 
 
 jUILLEME de Ridre i ejloit, 
 Ke en la baniere inde portoit 
 Les croijjans de or enluminez. 
 
 jILLIAM de Ridre' was there, 
 Who in a blue banner bore 
 Crejcents painted of gold. 
 
 ^TAn VOEC eus fu acheminez 
 
 j^^v^ Li beaus Thomas de Fourneval, 
 
 Ki quant Jeoit Jur le cheval 
 Ne fembloit home ki Jbmeille. 
 Sis merlos e bende vermeille 
 Portoit en la baniere blanche. 
 
 IITH them marched 
 The handjbme Thomas de Furnival,* 
 Who, when Jeated on horjeback. 
 Did not look like a man ajleep. 
 He bore Jix martlets and a red bend 
 In a white banner. 
 
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 OHANS de la Mare une manche 
 Portoit de argent en rouge ouvree. 
 
 f^OHN de la Mare^ bore a maunch 
 ^ Of Jilver worked on red. 
 
 
 OHANS le EJlrange le ot iivree 
 Rouge o deuz blans lyons pajjans. 
 
 OHN le EJlrange^ had it coloured 
 Red, with two white lions pajfant. 
 
 ' Roger de Mortaigne, fuppofed to be the individual men- 
 tioned in our poem, loft his father while young, and fuc- 
 ceeded as heir to his grandfather William de Morteyne's 
 lands in the counties of Leicefter, Notts, Lincoln, and 
 Derby, in the 12th of Edward I. when he was twenty-one 
 years of age. Arms, according to our poem, or, fix lions 
 rampant and double queued, azure. 
 
 ' Walter de Huntercombe fucceeded his father in his lands 
 in the 55th Henry III. at which time he was of full age. 
 He is found attending Edward I. in his Welfli wars, and 
 in Gafcony, and he ferved apparently in all the Scotti(h 
 wars. He was governor of Edinburgh Caftle in the 26th 
 of Edward I ; lieutenant of Northumberland in the year 
 following; and fubfequently Warden of the Marches. He 
 died in 1312. Arms, ermine, two bars of gemells gules. 
 
 * William de Ridre appears to be the fame individual 
 who is elfewhere called William de Rithre or Rittore. He 
 was in the expedition to Gafcony in the 25th of Edward I. 
 He was prefent in the parliament held at Carlifle in 1307, 
 immediately after which he is fuppofed to have died. Arms, 
 azure, three crefcents or. 
 
 * Thomas de Furnival fucceeded his father, Thomas de 
 Furnival, before 1279, ^^^ *he date of his birth is not known. 
 He appears to have ferved in nearly all the wars of Edward 
 I. He died in 1332, when he muft have been at leaft feventy 
 years of age. The name of this baron is remembered 
 with gratitude, becaufe he emancipated his tenants from 
 their vaflalage, eftabliftied a regular municipal court with 
 trial by jury, and inftituted a market and fair, in his de- 
 mefnes, at Sheffield in Yorkfhire. Arms, argent, a bend 
 betw£en fix martlets gules. 
 
 * John de la Mare, was a baron of whom very little is 
 known. Dugdale fays that he was defcended from a family 
 which had poflefled lands in Oxfordftiire fince the time of 
 king Stephen, and he was regularly fummoned as a baron 
 to parliament, while his name is traced as ferving in moft of 
 Edward's wars. He died in the 9th of Edward II. (1315- 
 1316.) ^r;wj, gules, a maunch argent. 
 
 " John le Strange was twenty-two years of age when he 
 fucceeded to the paternal eftates in the 4th of Edward I. 
 He was aftively engaged in the Welfti wars, and was fum- 
 moned to attend a council held by the king in Shrewfbury 
 

 
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THE ROLL OF CA ERLAFEROCK. 
 
 jNCORE i fui-je conoijfans 
 Johan de Gray, ki virree 
 I ot Ja baniere barree, 
 De argent e de ajur entallie, 
 O bende rouge engreellie. 
 
 GUILLEMES de Cantelo, 
 Ke je par cejle raijbn lo, 
 Ke en honnour a touz tens vejcu ; 
 Fejje vaire ot el rouge ejcu, 
 De trois flours de lis de or ejpars 
 NaijOfans de tejles de lupars. 
 
 ^w^ LSO I recognijed there 
 u^^ John de Grey,i who difplayed 
 Had there his banner barry 
 Drawn of filver and blue, 
 With a red bend engrailed. 
 
 17 
 
 ^A^ ND William de Cantilupe,^ 
 j^^yj Whom I for this reajbn praije. 
 That he has at all times lived in honour ; 
 He had on a red jhield a fejs vair, 
 With three fleurs-de-lis of bright gold 
 IJJuing from leopards heads. 
 
 PUIS Hue de Mortemer, 
 \&^ Ke bien Je Javoit fere amer ; 
 O deus fejfes de vair levoit 
 La baniere ke rouge avoit. 
 
 ^^ND then Hugh de Mortimer,^ 
 
 j?.^y| Who well knew how to make himjelf 
 
 beloved ; 
 With two fejjes vair he raifed 
 His banner which was red. 
 
 Sv ES a Symon de Montagu, 
 ^la Ke avoit baniere e ejcu 
 
 De inde, au grifoun rampant de or fin, 
 
 Prenoit la tiers ejchiel fin. 
 
 iUT with Simon de Montagu,* 
 Who had a banner and Jhield 
 Blue, with a griffin rampant of fine gold, 
 The third Jquadron was brought to a cloje. 
 
 jA quarte ejchiele, o fon conroi, 
 Conduit Edewars le fielz le roy. 
 
 HE fourth Jquadron, with its train, 
 Edward^ the king's Jon led. 
 
 in 1283, to deliberate concerning Llewellyn, late prince of 
 Wales. He was firft fummoned to Parliament in December, 
 1299, and at tbe fiege of Caerlaverock he mull have been 
 about forty-five years of age. In the firft of Edward II, he 
 obtained licence to make a caftle of his houfe at Middle, in 
 Shroplbire. He had figned the letter to the Pope as " Lord 
 of Knockyn." He died in 13 10, at the age of fifty-fix. 
 Arms, gules, two lions paflant argent. 
 
 ' John de Grey fucceeded his father Robert in his lands 
 of Rotherfieldjin Oxford/hire, in 1295, at which time he was 
 about twenty-four years of age, and he was fummoned to 
 attend a parliament held at Salifbuiy in the following year. 
 He died in 1312. Arms, barry of fix argent and azure, a 
 bend gules ; according to the poem, the bend was engrailed 
 in the arms of John de Grey. 
 
 * William de Cantilupe was the eldeft fon of Nicholas 
 de Cantilupe, by Euftachia, the fifter and fole heirefs of 
 Hugh Fitz Ralph, lord of Grefley, in Nottinghamlhire. 
 He ferved in the wars of Gafcony and Scotland. In his 
 fignature to the letter to the Pope he is ftyled, " Lord of 
 Ravenfthorp." , He died in 1309. Arms, gules, a fefs 
 vaire, between three fleur-de-lis ifTuing of leopards' heads 
 or ; or, as they would now be blazoned, three leopards' faces 
 jelTant fleur-de-lis. 
 
 ^ Hugh de Mortimer, lord of Richard's Caftle, in Here- 
 
 fordfhire, fucceeded his father, Robert de Mortimer, in his 
 lands in 1287, when he was confiderably under age, as he 
 only obtained livery of his father's lands in 1295. He died 
 in 1304. Arms, gules, two bars vaire. 
 
 * Simon de Montacute, the common anceftor of all the 
 peers of his name, fucceeded his father, William de Monta- 
 cute, in the earlier part of the reign of Edward I. He ferved 
 in all Edward's wars, and was, in the 27th of Edward I, 
 appointed governor of Corfe Caftle, In Dorfet. In the 2nd 
 of Edward II. he was appointed conftable of Beaumaris 
 Caftle, in the ifle of Anglefea ; two years afterwards he was 
 made admiral of the king's fleet againft the Scots ; and in 
 the 7th Edward II. he obtained a licence to make a caftle 
 of his houfe at Yerdlington, in Somerfet. After an a6live 
 military life, he died in 1316. ^r/wj, azure, a griffin fegreant 
 or. This, the arms given to Simon de Montacute in the 
 Roll of Caerlaverock, differs from the arms ufually borne by 
 the family, which were, argent, three fufils conjoined in 
 fefs gules. It is fuppofed, however, that Simon de Mon- 
 tacute bore two coats. 
 
 * Edward prince of Wales, afterwards king Edward 
 II, was, at the time of the fiege of Caerlaverock, /. e. in 
 June 1 300, in his feventeenth year, for he was born on the 
 25 th of April, 1284. The young prince, who led the fourth 
 divifion of the Englifti army on this occafion, appears to 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAV EROCK. 
 
 Jovenceaus de dis e jet ans, 
 E de nouvel armes portans. 
 De cors fu beaus e aligniez, 
 De cuer courtois e enjegniez, 
 E dejirans de ben trouver 
 Ou peujl Ja force efprouver. 
 Si chevauchoit merveilles bel, 
 E portoit, o un bleu label, 
 Les armes le bon roi Jon pere. 
 Or H doint Dieus grace ke il pere 
 Auji vaillans, e non pas meins ; 
 Lors porront chair en jes meins 
 Tel ki ne 1' beent faire oan. 
 
 A youth of jeventeen years of age, 
 
 And newly bearing arms. 
 
 He was of a well proportioned and hanijbme 
 
 perjbn. 
 Of a courteous dijpojition, and well bred, 
 And dejirous of finding an occajion 
 To make proof of his jlrength. 
 He managed his Jleed wonderfully well, 
 And bore with a blue label 
 The arms of the good king his father. 
 Now God give him grace that he be 
 As valiant and no lejs Jo ; 
 Then may fall into his hands 
 Thoje who never expeS to do Jo. 
 
 il preus Johans de Saint Johan 
 Fu par tout o lui ajjemblans ; 
 Ki Jur touz Jes guarnemens blancs 
 El chief rouge ot de or deus moleftes. 
 
 g^HE brave John de Saint John' 
 ^♦IP Was everywhere with him, 
 Who on all his white caparijbns 
 Had upon a red chief two gold mulletts. 
 
 jLANCHE cote e blanches ale^les, 
 EJcu blanc, e baniere blanche, 
 Portoit, o la vermeille manche, 
 Robers de Tony, ki bien Jigne 
 Ke il ejl du chevaler au eigne. 
 
 ^^ WHITE furcoat and white alettes, 
 Wftufl^ A white Jhield and a white banner. 
 
 Bore, with a red maunch, 
 Robert de Tony," who well evinces 
 That he is dejcended from the Knight of the 
 Swan. 
 
 jANIERE ot Henris li Tyois 
 Plus blanche de un poli lyois, 
 O un chievron vermeil en mi. 
 
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 ENRY le Tyes' had a banner 
 ^ Whiter than a fmooth lily. 
 
 With a red chevron in the middle. 
 
 have been entrufted to the efpecial care of John de St. John ; 
 and from a fubfequent pafTage it may be inferred that be- 
 fides St. John, the barons Tony, Tyes, Latimer, Leybume, 
 and Roger de Mortimer, were placed about him to ferve 
 as what we (hould now call a body-guard. The arms borne 
 by Edward in his father's life-time were thofe of England, 
 gules, three lions paflant gardant or, differenced by a label 
 azure. 
 
 ' John de St. John, the oldeft and moft diftinguifhed 
 commander in Edward's army, and who was here evidently 
 afting as military inftruftor to the young prince, fucceeded 
 his father Robert de St. John, in 1267, and was immediately 
 appointed to his office of governor of Pouheller Ca(tle. In 
 1276, he was one of the magnates prefent at the council of 
 Weltminfler, when judgment was given againft Llewellyn, 
 prince of Wales. In the 2ifl of Edward I. he was made 
 the king's lieutenant in the duchy of Aquitaine. In the 
 courfe of the wars in Gafcony, St. John was defeated, and 
 taken prifoner in 1295 ; but he was fpeedily releafed. He 
 
 led a great force into Scotland in 1299, and he was the 
 real commander of the fourth divifion of the army before 
 Caerlaverock, though it was nominally commanded by the 
 prince of Wales. He died towards the end of the year 
 1302, but the date of his birth is unknown. Arms of St. 
 John, argent, on a chief gules, two mullets or. 
 
 "^ Robert de Tony fucceeded his father, Ralph de Tony, 
 in 1294, when he was of full age. It has been inferred, 
 from the rather curious allufion in thefe lines, that the family 
 of Tony pretended to claim defcent from the Knight of the 
 Swan, the hero of medieval romance from whom the counts 
 of Boulogne were fuppofed alfo to be defcended. He died 
 in T310. Arms, argent, a maunche gules. 
 
 * Of Henry le Tyes we know little more than that he 
 was a ftatefman of diftinftion, and was frequently employed 
 in political and military events during the reign of Ed- 
 ward I. In the letter to the Pope he is ftyled " Lord 
 of Chilton." He died in 1 308. Arms, argent, a chevron 
 gules. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAV EROCK, 
 
 19 
 
 jROUESCE ke avoit fait ami 
 De Guilleme le Latimier, 
 Ki la crois patee de or mier 
 Portoit, en rouge bien pourtraite, 
 Sa baniere ot cele part traite. 
 
 i|ROWESS, who had made her friend 
 \^A Of William le Latimer,^ 
 Who a gold crojs patee 
 Bore, well pidured on red, 
 Carried his banner into that jquadron. 
 
 jUILLEMES de Leybourne auji, 
 Vaillans horns, Janz mes et Jans Ji, 
 Baniere i ot o larges pans, 
 De inde, o jis blans lyouns rampans. 
 
 ^^ LSO William de Leyburne,- 
 
 j^t^tV A valiant man, without but and without 
 
 if, 
 Had there a banner with a large pennon. 
 Of blue, with jix white lions rampant. 
 
 PUIS Rogiers de Mortemer, 
 Ki, deca mer e dela mer, 
 A porte quel part ke ait ale 
 L'efcu barre au chief pale, 
 E les cornieres gyronnees, 
 De or e de ajiir enluminees, 
 O le ejcuchon vuidie de ermine, 
 Ovoec les autres Je achcmine ; 
 Car il e li devant nomez 
 Au filz le roy furent remez 
 De Jon frein guyour e guardein 
 Mes comment ke je les ordein, 
 
 ^^3ND next Roger de Mortimer,' 
 tj^^v^l Who on both Jides the Jea 
 Has borne wherever he went 
 A Jhield barry, with a chief paly, 
 And the corners gyronny. 
 Emblazoned with gold and with blue. 
 With the ejcutcheon voided of ermine. 
 Proceeds with the others, 
 For he and the before-named 
 Were appointed to the king's Jon 
 As condu6lors and guardians of him. 
 But however I place them, 
 
 ' William le Latimer was far advanced in years when he 
 appeared before Caerlaverock. As early as 1253 (the 38th 
 of Henry III.) he was made fheriff of Yorkfhire, and 
 governor of York Caftle, and, in the year following, go- 
 vernor of the Caftle of Pickering in the fame county. He 
 appears to have accompanied Edward I, then prince, to the 
 Holy Land, and his life was a feries of conftant fervices, 
 efpecially as a foldier. The date of his birth is unknown, 
 but it is believed that he muft have been feventy or eighty 
 years of age when he attended in arms at the fiege of Caer- 
 laverock. He died in 1305. Arms, gules, a crofs fleury 
 or. It has been fuppofed that Dugdale, in his account of 
 William de Latimer, has confounded two perfons, a father 
 and fon, and that the hero of Caerlaverock was therefore 
 not fo aged as is fuppofed ; but, with the prefent knowledge, 
 this is as yet no more than a fuppofition. 
 
 * William de Leybourne was the eldeft fon of Roger de 
 Leybourne, and fucceeded his father in his lands in 1272. 
 In the 22nd of Edward I. he was made conftable of Pev- 
 enfey Caftle. His name occurs not unfrequently in the 
 records of the time, and he was continually employed in 
 aftive fervice. He died in 1309. Arms, azure, fix lions 
 rampant argent. 
 
 ^ Roger de Mortimer was one of the moft celebrated of the 
 great barons, and belonged to one of the moft diftinguiihed 
 families of this period j he was engaged in almoft every 
 
 expedition, and inmany of the political events, between 1283 
 and 1330. He was the fecond fon of Roger de Mortimer, 
 Lord of Wigmore, by Maude de Braofe, and is fuppofed to 
 have been born about the year 1260. When very young 
 he ferved in the wars againft the Welfti, and, in addition to 
 large pofleflions in Herefordftiire and Shropftiire, he obtained 
 the lordftiip of Chirk, from which he was generally known 
 as Mortimer of Chirk. Neverthelefs, in the letter of the 
 barons to the Pope he is ftyled, " Lord of Penketlyn." On 
 the acceffion of Edward II. he was conftituted the king's 
 lieutenant and juftice of Wales, having all the caftles of the 
 principality committed to his charge, and during this reign 
 he was much engaged in Wellh aff'alrs. He foon, however, 
 loft the favour of king Edward II. by joining in the popu- 
 lar caufe and taking an aftive part againft the Defpenfers. 
 During the reft of the reign he was not only in difgrace, but 
 his eftates were confifcated ; but after the acceffion of 
 Edward III. they were reftored, and the judgment againft 
 him was reverfed. He was again appointed jufticiary of 
 Wales, and died about the year 1 3 3 6, at a very advanced age. 
 There was an apparently erroneous tradition in Leland's 
 time that he had died a prifoner in the Tower of London. 
 Arms, bany or and azure, a chief paly and the corners 
 gyronny ; an inefcutcheon ermine ; the latter being a dif- 
 tinftion from the houfe of Wigmore, who bore the inef- 
 cutcheon argent. 
 
20 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 Li Sains Johans, li Latimiers, 
 Bailie li furent des primers 
 Ki fe ejchiele areer devoient. 
 Cum cil ki plus de ce Javoient. 
 Car quere aillours ne jeroit preus 
 Deuz plus vaillans ne deuz plus preus. 
 Ami lour furent et veijln 
 Deuz frere au filz le roi coujln, 
 Thomas e Henri les nome on, 
 Ki furent filz mon Jlre Eymon, 
 Frere le roi mielz ame 
 Ke onques oijje enji nome. 
 
 The St. John, the Latimer, 
 
 Were appointed to him the firjl 
 
 Who were to array his Jquadron, 
 
 As thoje who bejl unierjlooi that ; 
 
 For it would hot be wife to feek elfewhere 
 
 Two more valiant or two more excellent men. 
 
 Their friends and neighbours were 
 
 Two brothers coujins to the king's Jon, 
 
 Named Thomas and Henr}^, 
 
 Who were the fons of my lord Edmond, 
 
 The brother of the king the bejl beloved 
 
 That I ever heard thus named. 
 
 ^^HOMAS de Langcajlre ejloit contes ; 
 
 t^J Se ejl de fes armes teus li contes, 
 
 De Engletere, au label de France, 
 E ne vuel plus mettre en Jouffrance, 
 
 jHOMAS^ was Earl of Lancajler; 
 This is the description of his arms/- 
 ThoJe of England with a label of France, 
 And I will not trouble you more about him, 
 
 iTggSjE de Henri ne vous redie, 
 3,5^ Ki touz jours toute Je ejludie 
 
 Mijl a rejembler Jon bon pere ; 
 E portoit les armes fon frere, 
 Au bleu bajloun Janz le label. 
 
 ^^HAT I may go on to fpeak of Henry, « 
 ij^. Whoje whole daily Jludy 
 
 Was to rejemble his good father ; 
 And he bore the arms of his brother, 
 With a blue baton, without the label. 
 
 UILLEMES de Ferieres bel 
 E noblement i fu remez. 
 
 jILLIAM de Ferrers^ was iaicly 
 And nobly accoutred, 
 
 ' Thomas Plantagenet, earl of Lancafter, was the eldeft 
 fon of Edmund earl of Lancafter, Chefter, and Leicefter, 
 fccond fon of king Henry III, and fticceeded his father in 
 all thefe dignities in 1296. Two years afterwards he was 
 fummoned to ferve in the wars in Scotland ; but he does 
 not appear to have taken aftual fervice until the year 1300, 
 when we here find him at Caerlaverock ferving in the divi- 
 fion of the army led by his coufin the prince of Wales, 
 He was then about twenty-five years of age. He continued 
 to ferve in the Scottifh wars during this reign, and appears 
 to have flood in favour at the commencement of the 
 reign of Edward II, but he foon loft it by efpoufing the 
 popular caufe, and heading the party oppofed to the royal 
 favourite, Piers de Gavefton. His fubfequent hiftory is 
 too well known to need repeating here. He was made 
 prifoner in the battle of Boroughbridge, and the day after, 
 the 2and of March, 1332, he was beheaded at Pontefraft. 
 Arms, thofe of England, gules, three lions paflant gardant 
 or ; with a label of France, his mother's arms, azure, femees 
 of fleurs-de-lis, or. 
 
 ' Henry de Lancafter, brother of the preceding, was the 
 fecond fon of Edmund earl of Lancafter, by Blanche of 
 Artois, and is fuppofed to have been born about the year 
 1276. O n the death of his father, he had livery of the to wn. 
 
 caftle, and honour of Monmouth, and he was fummoned to 
 ferve in the wars in Scotland in September, 1298. He was 
 ufually known as Henry of Lancafter lord of Monmouth. 
 At the beginning of the reign of Edward II. he was com- 
 manded to attend at Dover, to receive the king and queen 
 on their return from France, and he carried the fceptre 
 at the coronation of the new king. He retained the king's 
 favour, and, after his brother's attainder, he was created 
 earl of Lancafter (1324). At the beginning of the reign 
 of Edward III. the proceedings againft Thomas earl of 
 Lancafter were reverfed, and the earl of Leicefter, as his 
 brother and heir, fucceeded to his vafteftatesand to the earl- 
 doms of Lancafter and Chefter. He died in 134.5, when he 
 is fuppofed to have been nearly feventy years of age. Arms, 
 gules, three lions palTant gardant or, England, with a baton 
 azure. 
 
 ' William de Ferrers was the eldeft fon of William de 
 Ferrers lord of Groby, and fucceeded to his father's eftates 
 in 1288, when he was eighteen years of age. He was an 
 aftive foldier, and was continually employed in the Scottifh 
 wars during the reigns of Edward I. and II, and was regu- 
 larly fummoned to Parliament from the year 1300 to 1325, 
 in which latter year he died. Arms, gules, feven mafcles 
 voided of the field. 
 
THE ROLL OF CJ ERLAFEROCK. 
 
 21 
 
 De armes vermeilles ben armes, 
 
 majcles de or del champ voidies. 
 
 jELY dont bien furent aidies, 
 E achievees les amours, 
 Apres granz doubtez e cremours, 
 Tant ke Dieus le en volt delivre ejlre, 
 For la contejje de Gloucejlre, 
 Por ki long tens Jbuffri granz maus. 
 De or fin o trois chiverons vermaus 
 
 1 ot baniere Jbulement ; 
 
 Si ne faijbit pas malement 
 Kant Jes propres armes vejloit, 
 Jaunes ou le egle verde ejloit. 
 Se avoit non Rauf de Monthermer. 
 
 ^^PRES li vi-je tout premier 
 K^v<3 Le vaillant Robert de la Warde, 
 Ke ben Ja banier rewarde ; 
 Vairie ejl de blanc e de noir. 
 
 And well armed in red arms, 
 
 With gold mafcles voided of the field. 
 
 IE by whom they were well jupported, 
 And brought to Juccejs the love, 
 After great doubts and fears. 
 Until it pleajed God he jhould be relieved, 
 For the countefs of Gloucejler, 
 For whom he long endured great jufFerings. 
 Of fine gold with three red chevrons 
 He had there only a banner. 
 Yet he made no bad appearance 
 When he was attired in his own arms, 
 Which were yellow with a green eagle. 
 His name was Ralph de Monthermer.^ 
 
 ^^aSJFTER him I faw firjl of all 
 
 The worthy Robert de la Warde,'^ 
 
 Who guards his banner well. 
 Which is vaire of white and black. 
 
 I^^^OHANS de Seint Tohan fon hoir 
 '^^ Lour.ot baillie a compaignon, 
 Ki de jbn pere avoit le non, 
 E les armes au bleu label. 
 
 jlCHART le conte de Arondel, 
 Beau chevalier e bien ame, 
 
 JOHN de St. John^ his heir 
 Had given them as a companion ; 
 He bore the name of his father. 
 And aljb his arms with a blue label. 
 
 1ICHARD4 the earl of Arundel, 
 A handjbme and well-beloved knight, 
 
 ' Ralph de Monthermer was a fimple knight, of whom 
 abfolutely nothing is known until, in 1297, he married the 
 princefs Joan of Acres, daughter of king Edward I, and 
 widow of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucefter and Hertford, 
 and he fucceeded to thofe earldoms in the right of his wife. 
 It is faid to have been a marriage of love, to have been per- 
 formed clandeftinely, and to have given great offence to the 
 king, who was reconciled to the offending couple by the me- 
 diation of Antony Beck, bifhop of Durham. After this time 
 his name occurs frequently in public tranfaftions. In the 
 3 5th of Edward I. the king gave him the lands and dignity 
 of the earl of Athol in Scotland, where he was engaged in 
 the war, and was defeated by Robert Bruce, and befieged 
 in the caftle of Ayr, in which he had taken refuge, until the 
 king fent a force to relieve him. His countefs died in 1 307. 
 He was employed in aflive fervice during the reign of 
 Edward II, and was taken prifoner at the battle of Bannock- 
 burn. He is fuppofed to have died about the i8th year of 
 the reign of Edward II. Arms, of Monthermer, or, an 
 eagle difplayed vert ; of Clare, which he bore on his banner 
 on the prefent occafion, or, three chevronels gules. 
 
 * Robert de la Ward poffeffed eftates in the counties of 
 Nottingham and Derby, and appears to have ferved with 
 diftin6lion in the wars of Flanders and Scotland from the year 
 
 1298 to the end of Edward's reign. In 1306, he was ap- 
 pointed fteward of the king's houfehold. He died in the 
 following year. Arms, vaire, argent and fable. 
 
 ^ John de St. John, fon of the John de St. John mentioned 
 in the earlier part of this record, was born in 1274. He 
 was fummoned to ferve in the wars in Flanders, in November 
 1397, when he was only about twenty-three years of age. 
 He is fuppofed to be the baron of this name who figned the 
 letter to the pope under the title of " Lord of Hanak." 
 He ferved conftantly in the Scottifh wars of the reigns of 
 Edward I. and Edward II, and he is faid to have died in 
 1 3 1 9, though there appears to be fome realbns for doubting 
 this ftatement. Arms, argent, on a chief gules two mallets 
 or, with a label azure for difference during the life of his 
 father. 
 
 * Richard Fitz Alan, the firft earl of Arundel of that 
 family, was born on the 3rd of February, 1267, and was five 
 years of age when he fucceeded to his father's eftates in 1272. 
 His mother was Ifabel, daughter of Roger de Mortimer of 
 Chirk. In 1287 he was commanded to raife his tenants 
 of his eftates of Whittington and Clun to oppofe the Welfh. 
 He fubfequently faw much fervice in the wars of Gafcony 
 and Scotland. He died on the 9th of March, 1 302 . Arms, 
 gules, a lion rampant argent. 
 
22 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAV EROCK. 
 
 I vi-je richement arme 
 
 En rouge, au lyon rampant de or. 
 
 I Jaw there, richly armed 
 
 In red, with a gold lion rampant. 
 
 Sn^KlLEYN de la Souche trejbr 
 '""Js Signefioit, ke fujl brijans 
 
 Sa rouge baniere o bejans ; 
 Kar bien fai ke il a dejpendu 
 Trejour plus ke en bourje pendu. 
 
 ^^^LAN de la Zouche* treajiire 
 
 y_i^^ Signified, which Jprinkled 
 
 His red banner with befants ; 
 
 For I know well that he has jpent 
 
 More treajure than he has jujpended in his purje. 
 
 AR amours e par compagnie, 
 O eus fu jointe la maijhie 
 Le noble evejke de Dureaume, 
 Le plus vaillant clerk du roiaume ; 
 Voire voir de crejliente, 
 Si vous en dirai verite. 
 Par coi, je entendre me volez. 
 Sages fu e bien enparlez, 
 Atemprez, droituriers, e chajles. 
 Ne onques riche home ne aprochajles 
 Ki plus bel ordenajle fa vie. 
 Orguel, covetije, e envie 
 Avoit il del tout gette puer ; 
 Non porquant hautein ot le quer 
 Por jes droitures meintenir. 
 Si ke il ne lejjoit convenir 
 Ses enemis par pacience. 
 Car de une propre conscience 
 Si hautement Je con/eilloit, 
 Ke checuns Je enjemerveilloit. 
 En toutes les guerres le roi 
 Avoit ejle de noble aroi, 
 
 jOTH in company and afteftion. 
 With them were joinei the followers 
 Of the noble bijhop of Durham,*^ 
 The mojl worthy clerk in the kingdom ; 
 And indeed of Chrijtendom, 
 If I Jhould tell you the truth of him. 
 Becauje, if you will lijten to me, 
 He was wije, and eloquent, 
 Temperate, jujl, and chajl/e. 
 Never did you approach a rich man 
 Who regulated his life better. 
 Pride, covetoufnejs, and envy, 
 He had entirely cajl away ; 
 Neverthelejs he had a lofty heart 
 To defend his rights. 
 So that he failed not to overcome 
 His enemies by patience. 
 For by a juJl conjcience 
 So Jlrongly was he influenced. 
 That every one wondered. 
 In all the king's wars 
 He had appeared in noble array, 
 
 ' Alan le Zouche, fon and heir of Roger le Zouche, fiic- 
 ceeded to his father's eftates at Afhby, in Leicefterfhire, in 
 1285, when he was eighteen years old. He appears to have 
 been aftively employed in military fervice during the reign 
 of Edward I, and, having been one of the peers I'ummoned 
 to attend the coronation of Edward II, he continued to be 
 aflively employed in the Scottilh wars ot' the new reign. 
 In the 5th year of Edward II, he was appointed governor 
 of Rockingham caftle and fteward of the foreft of Rocking- 
 ham. He died in 13 14. Arms, gules, bezante. 
 
 * Anthony Bek, the warlike bifhop of Durham, was a 
 younger fon of Walter Bek, baron of Erefby, and accom- 
 panied prince Edward to the Holy Land in 1270, but the 
 date of his birth is not known. In 1275, he was appointed 
 conftable of the Tower of London, having already been 
 archdeacon of Durham fmce the year 1273. He was 
 elefted bifhop of Durham in 1283. He was evidently a 
 man of great abilities as well as power, for he was one of the 
 
 moft aftive ftatefmen of the reign of Edwaid I, and was 
 employed in almoft every event of importance which oc- 
 curred in thofe times, either military or diplomatic. This 
 bilhop's wealth and power were indeed enormous, and excited 
 at times the jealoufy of the king himfelf. It is faid that he 
 attended the king in his wars with twenty-fix bannerets of 
 his houfehold, a hundred and forty knights, and five hundred 
 horfe, while a thoufand foot marched under the confecrated 
 banner of St. Cuthbert, which was carried by Henry de 
 Hornceftre, a monk of Durham. His pride lead him to 
 quarrel both with the king and with the pope, and in oppo- 
 fition to the former he joined the popular party in politics. 
 Under Edward II. he recovered all his influence, and ob- 
 tained in addition to his previous power and titles, the 
 dignity of king of the Ifle of Man. In 1310, biftiop Bek 
 joined the earl of Lancafter againft Piers de Gavefton, and 
 he died on the 3rd of March, 1 31 1. Armi of Bek, gules, a 
 fer de moulin ermine. 
 
THE ROLL OF CA ERL AV EROCK. 
 
 23 
 
 A grant gens e a grans coujlages. 
 Mes je ne jai pas queus outrages, 
 Dont uns plais fu en^ames, 
 En Engletere ejloit remes, 
 Si ke en EJcoce lors ne vint. 
 Non porquant fi bien li Jbuvint 
 Du roi, ke emprije la voi a, 
 Ke de jes gens H envoia 
 Cent e Jeijante homes a armes. 
 Onques Arturs, por touz fes charmes. 
 Si beau prejent ne ot de Merlin. 
 Vermeille, o un fer de molyn 
 De ermine, e envoia Je enjegne. 
 
 With a great retinue, and at great cojl. 
 
 In conjequence of I know not what wrong, 
 
 For which a procefs was entered, 
 
 He was detained in England, 
 
 So that he did not then come into Scotland ; 
 
 Notwithjlanding he Jo well kept in mind 
 
 The king's expedition, 
 
 That he Jent him of his people 
 
 One hundred and Jixty men at arms. 
 
 Arthur never, with all his fpells, 
 
 Had Jo fine a prejent from Merlin. 
 
 And he Jent there his enjign, which was gules 
 
 With a fer de moulin of ermine. 
 
 jELUY ki tot honnour enjeigne, 
 Johan de Hajlingues a non, 
 La devoit conduire en Jon non ; 
 Car il ejloit o li remez 
 Li plus privez, H plus amez, 
 De kanques il en i avoit. 
 E voir bien ejlre le devoit ; 
 Kar conneus ejloit de touz 
 Au fair des armes feris e ejlous, 
 En ojlel douz e debonaires ; 
 Ne onques ne fu jujlice en aires 
 Plus volentris de droit jugier. 
 EJcu avoit fort e legier, 
 E baniere de oevre pareile, 
 De or fin o la manche vermeille. 
 
 jE who all honour difplays, 
 John de Hajlings^ by name, 
 Was to conduft it in his name ; 
 For it was entrujled to him, 
 As being the mojl intimate and the bejl beloved 
 Of all thoje he had there. 
 And ajjuredly he well dejerved to be Jo ; 
 For he was known by all to be 
 In deeds of arms daring and recklejs, 
 But in the hojlel mild and gracious ; 
 Nor was there ever a Judge in Eyre 
 More willing to judge rightly. 
 He had a Jlrong and light Jhield, 
 And a banner of Jlmilar work, 
 Of line gold with a red maunch. 
 
 ^YMONS, fes freres li vaillans, 
 Le label noir i fu cuellans. 
 A ki pas ne devoit faillir 
 Honnours, dont Je penoit cuellir. 
 
 |DMOND,2 his worthy brother, 
 Adopted there the black label. 
 Whom could not fail 
 Honours, which he took pains to acquire. 
 
 ' John de Haftings was the fon and heir of Henry baron 
 Haltings, and fucceeded his father in the 53rd of Henry III, 
 when he was a minor, and he appears to have been born 
 about the year 1251. He ferved frequently in the wars in 
 Scotland and Wales. In the 21ft Edward I. John de 
 Haftings was himfelf one of the claimants to the crown of 
 Scotland, in the right of his grandmother Ada, a daughter 
 of David earl of Huntingdon, who was brother of William 
 the Lion king of Scotland. In the letter to the Pope he is 
 ftyled "Lord of Bergavenny," (Abergavenny). In the 
 30th of Edward I. he was made lieutenant (or viceroy) of 
 
 the duchy of Aquitaine. He was intimately connefted with 
 the Englifh government of Scotland during the latter years 
 of his life, which was doled in the 5th of Edward II. 
 (1312-1313), when he was about fixty-two years of age. 
 Arms, or, a maunch gules. 
 
 * Edmund de Haftings was a younger brother of the 
 preceding, and is little known in hiftory. In the 5th year 
 of the reign of Edward II. he was appointed cuftos of the 
 town of Berwick, and is fuppofed to have died about the 
 year 1314. Arms, thofe of his brother, differenced by a 
 label vert or fable. 
 
2+ 
 
 |N bacheler jolif e crinte, 
 De amours e de armes bien acointe, 
 Avoint-il a compaignon, 
 Johans Paignel avoit a non, 
 Ke en la baniere verde peinte 
 Portoit de or fin la manche peinte. 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK 
 
 1 
 
 HANDSOME and accomplijbed 
 bachelor, 
 
 Well acquainted with love and arms, 
 They had as a companion, 
 Whoje name was John Paignel,^ 
 Who on a banner painted green 
 Bore a maunch of fine gold. 
 
 QUANT li bons Eymons Deincourt 
 Ne pout mie venir a court, 
 
 Ses deuz bons filz en fon leu mijt, 
 
 E ja baniere o eus tramijl, 
 
 De inde colour de or billetee, 
 
 O une dance furgette. 
 
 Kn^ND when the good Edmond Deincourt- 
 
 K^.^ Could not come to court himjelf, 
 
 He Jent his two brave fons in his jlead, 
 
 And with them his banner, 
 
 Of a blue colour, billette of gold, 
 
 With a dancette over all. 
 
 jE Johan le fis Merraenduk, 
 Ke tuit prijbient, prince e due, 
 E autre ke li conoi|foient, 
 La baniere renbellijjbient 
 La fejje e H trois papegai, 
 Ke a davijer blancs en rouge ai. 
 
 MORICES de Berkelee, 
 Ki compaigns fu de cele alee, 
 
 Baniere ot vermeille cum fane, 
 
 CroiJJillie o un chievron blanc, 
 
 Ou un label de ajur avoit, 
 
 Por ce que Jes peres vivoit. 
 
 IF John Fitz-Marmaduke,^ 
 Whom all ejleemed, prince and duke. 
 And others who knew him. 
 The banner was adorned 
 With fejs and three popinjays. 
 Which were painted white on a red field. 
 
 glg^ND Maurice de Berkeley,'* 
 
 ^^»<j Who was a partaker in this expedition, 
 
 Had a banner red as blood, 
 
 Crujllly with a white chevron, 
 
 On which there was a blue label, 
 
 Becauje his father was living. 
 
 • John Paignel was a banneret, of whom nothing is cer- 
 tainly known except his prefence at the fiege of Caerlave- 
 rock ; and, in fail, it is not at all certain that he has been 
 rightly identified. His Arms, according to the poem, were 
 vert, a maunch or. 
 
 ' Edmund Deincourt was reprefented at Caerlaverock by 
 his two fons, and it appears from other fources, that he was 
 accuftomed to fend his fons to perform his fervice to the king, 
 perhaps in confequence of age and decrepitude. In the 
 letter to the Pope he is ftyled " Lord of Thurgerton ;" and 
 in 1305 he was appointed a juftice of Trailbafton. Arms, 
 azure, billette furmounted by a dancette or. 
 
 ^ John Fitz-Marmaduke was the eldeft fon of Marmaduke 
 Fitz-Geffrey, lord of Hordene, in the bifhopricof Durham, 
 but very little is known of him. His fignature appears in 
 the letter to the Pope, where he is ftyled' Lord of Hordene;" 
 and he appears, from the words of our poem, to have been a 
 brave knight. He appears to have held a diftinguifhed 
 pofition in the reign of Edward II, and to have been often 
 employed in war and diplomacy. At the time of his death, 
 in 1 31 1, he was governor of St. John's Town, or Perth, in 
 Scotland. Arms, gules, a fefs between three popinjays 
 
 argent. His fon. Sir Richard, bore the fame coat, differenctd 
 by a baton azure. 
 
 * Maurice de Berkeley, eldeft fon of Thomas lord 
 Berkeley, was born in 1281, and, to judge by the notices 
 we have of him in the records of the time, muft have had 
 a very early inftin61 for war. He accompanied his father 
 in the expedition into Wales, in 1294-5, when he was pro- 
 bably little more than thirteen years of age ; he was at the 
 fiege of Berwick a year later, and in the war in Flanders 
 the year following that ; and he would be under twenty at 
 the fiege of Caerlaverock. During the reign of Edward II. 
 he was much employed in the Scottifti wars. In the 9th 
 of Edward II. (13 15- 13 16), he was appointed juftice of 
 South Wales. He was made fteward of Aquitaine in 
 1320. The fame year he fucceeded his father in his lands. 
 He fubfequently joined the party of the Earl of Lancaftcr, 
 was treacheroufly feized, when he prefented himfclf at court 
 relying on a fafe-condu61, and thrown into prifon ; and 
 died in confinement, in Wallingford Caftle, in 1326. Arms, 
 thofe of Berkeley, crufilly of crofles patee, over all a chevron 
 argent ; but the label azure on his arms, as defcribed in the 
 poem, ftiows that his father was ftill alive. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAV EROCK. 
 
 25 
 
 R^ES AlliJOfandres de Bailloel, 
 
 
 Ke a tout bien faire gettoit le oel, 
 
 Blanche baniere avoit el champ, 
 Al rouge efcu voidie du champ. 
 
 jUT Alexander de Bailiol,^ 
 Who had his eye on doing everything 
 good, 
 Bore a banner with a white ground, 
 And a red ejcutcheon voided of the field. 
 
 CESTUI daerein nome 
 Ai, Janz les doubles aj[)ome, 
 Seij[]rante e vint e jet banieres 
 Ki tienent les voies plenieres 
 Au chajlel de Karlaverok. 
 Ne pas ne ert pris de ejchek de rok, 
 Ainz i aura trait e lancie, 
 Engine leve e balancie. 
 Cum nous vous en avijeroms, 
 Kant le ajQaut en devijeroms. 
 
 jITH this lajl, named 
 I have, without reckoning the doubles, 
 Eighty-Jeven banners. 
 Which hold the high roads 
 To the cajlle of Caerlaverock. 
 It will not be taken by check with a rook. 
 But there will be projeSiles thrown, 
 And engines raijed and poijed. 
 As we Jhall inform you 
 When we dejcribe the attack. 
 
 [ARLAVEROK chajleaus ejloit 
 Si fors ke Jiege ne doutoit, 
 Ainz ke li rois iluec venijl ; 
 Car rendre ne le convenijl 
 James mes ke il fujl a /on droit, 
 Guarnys, kant bejbigns en vendroit, 
 De gens, de engins, e de vitaile. 
 Cum uns ejcus ejloit de taile, 
 Car ne ot ke trois cojlez entour, 
 E en chejcun angle une tour j 
 Mes ke le une ejloit jumelee, 
 Tant haut, tant longue, e tant lee, 
 Ke par defouz ejloit la porte 
 A pont tourniz, bien fait e fort, 
 E autres deffenjes ajjez. 
 Se avoit bons murs, e bons fojjez, 
 Trejlouz pleins de eawe rez a rez ; 
 E croi ke James ne verrez 
 Chajlel plus bel de lui feoir ; 
 Car al vules puet on veoir 
 Devers le wejl la mer de Irlande, 
 
 E^^AERLAVEROCK was a cajlle 
 
 V^^ So jlrong, that it did not fear jiege, 
 
 Before the king came there ; 
 
 For it became it not to jurrender 
 
 Ever till he was in his right ; 
 
 Furnijhed, when it jhould be needful, 
 
 With men, engines, and provijions. 
 
 It was formed like a jhield. 
 
 For it had only three Jides in circuit, 
 
 With a tower at each angle ; 
 
 But one of them was a double one, 
 
 So high, ^o long, and fo large, 
 
 That under it was the gate. 
 
 With a drawbridge, well made and jlrong. 
 
 And a jufiiciency of other defences. 
 
 It had alfo good walls, and good ditches. 
 
 All filled to the edge with water ; 
 
 And I believe you will never jee 
 
 A cajlle more beautifully fituated than it ; 
 
 For at will could one jee 
 
 Towards the wejl the Irijh jea, 
 
 ' Alexander de Bailiol, a fon of John de Bailiol, the founder 
 of Baliol College, Oxford, is fuppofed to have been born 
 about the year 1258. He was a younger brother of John 
 de Baliol, who became king of Scotland. He was lord of 
 Chilham in Kent. He ferved againft the Welfh in the loth 
 of Edward I, and in the expedition to Flanders in the 25th 
 of the fame reign. He was fubfequently employed in moft 
 of the Scottifti wars; and in 1290 he was appointed chamber- 
 
 lain of Scotland. On two occafions he fell into difgrace, 
 firft in 1295, when his lands were feized, and a fecond time 
 in 1302, when his goods were not only leized, but he was 
 himfelf placed under arreft. He continued to be employed 
 in military fervice againft the Scots after the acceflion of 
 Edward II. The date of his death appears not to be known. 
 Arms, or, an orle gules. In the defcription of the arms, the 
 text of Sir H. Nicolas rea.ds jaune for blanche. 
 
26 
 
 THE ROLL OF CA ERLAVEROCK. 
 
 E vers le north la bele lande, 
 De un bras de mer avironne, 
 Si ke il ne ejl creature nee 
 Ki de deuz pars puijl aprijmer 
 Sanz jbi mettre en peril de mer. 
 Devers le Ju legier ne ejl pas ; 
 Car il i a meint mauvais pas, 
 De bois, de more, e de trenchies, 
 Si cum la mer les a cerchies, 
 Ou Jeult la riviere encontrer ; 
 E por ce convint le ojl entrer 
 Vers le ejl, ou pendans ejl li mons. 
 
 And to the north the fair plain, 
 
 Surrounded by an arm of the Jea, 
 
 So that there is no creature born 
 
 Who can approach it on two Jldes, 
 
 Without putting himjelf in danger of the Jea, 
 
 Towards the Jbuth it is not eajy ; 
 
 Becauje there are numerous dangerous pajfes, 
 
 Of wood, of marjhes, and dikes. 
 
 As the J*ea has entered, 
 
 Where it meets the river ; 
 
 And therefore mujl the hojl approach 
 
 Towards the eajl, where the hill hangs over. 
 
 ILUEC a li rois Jbmons 
 Ses batailes a arengier 
 En troes, con devoit herbergier. 
 Lors Je arengierent baneour ; 
 Si veijl-on meint poigneour 
 Iluec jbn cheval ejprouver ; 
 E puejl-on iluec trouver 
 Troi mil homes de armee gent : 
 Si vejl-on le or e le argent, 
 E de toutes riches coulours 
 Les plus nobles e les mellours, 
 Trejlout le val euluminer. 
 Par coi ben croi ke a deviner 
 Cil du chajlel peujfent donques 
 Ke en tel peril ne furent onques, 
 Dont il lour peujl Jbuvenir, 
 Kant enji nous virent venir. 
 E tant cum Ji fumes rengie, 
 Marejcal orent herbergie, 
 E tout par tout places liverees, 
 Lors veiJl-on maijbns ouvrees, 
 Sanz charpentiers e Janz majbns, 
 De mult de diverjes fa^ons 
 De toile blanche e toile tainte ; 
 La ot tendue corde meinte, 
 Meint poijjbn en tere fiche, 
 Maint grant arbre a tere trenchie, 
 Por fere loges ; e fuellies, 
 Herbes e flours, es bois cuellies, 
 Dont furent joinchies dedenz. 
 E lors dejcendirent nos genz. 
 
 ^^ ND there the king has commanded 
 
 %^A His Jquadrons to form 
 
 In three, as they were to be quartered. 
 
 Then were the banners arranged ; 
 
 And one might objerve many a rider 
 
 There trying his horje ; 
 
 And there one might Jee 
 
 Three thoujand brave men at arms ; 
 
 And one Jaw gold and Jilver, 
 
 And of all rich colours 
 
 The noblejl and the bejl, 
 
 Entirely illuminating the valley. 
 
 For which thoje of the cajlle 
 
 Might, as I well believe, deem 
 
 That they were never in Juch peril 
 
 As far as they could remember, 
 
 When they Jaw us thus arrive. 
 
 And as foon as we were drawn up, 
 
 The marjhals had alloted us our lodgings. 
 
 And given us places everywhere. 
 
 Then might be Jeen houfes built 
 
 Without carpenters or majbns, 
 
 Of many different fajhions 
 
 Of white cloth and coloured cloth ; 
 
 There was many a cord Jlretched, 
 
 Many a pin driven into the ground. 
 
 Many a large tree cut down 
 
 To make huts ; and leaves. 
 
 Herbs, and flowers, gathered in the woods, 
 
 With which they v/ere Jlrewed within. 
 
 And then our people difmounted. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK, 
 
 27 
 
 K^^nj KI tantojl ji bien avint 
 K^v<j Ke la navie a tere vint, 
 
 les engins e la vitaile. 
 E ja comencoit la pietaile 
 Au devant du chajtel aler ; 
 Si veijl on entre eus voler 
 Pieres, Jajettes, e quareaus. 
 
 Mes tant chier changent lour meraus 
 Cil de dedenz a ceus dehors, 
 Ke en petite houre plujburs cors 
 
 1 ot blejciez e navrez, 
 
 E ne Jai quanz a mort livrez. 
 
 jOON afterwards it fortunately happened 
 That the navy arrived 
 With the engines and provijions. 
 And then the footmen began 
 To march againjl the cajlle ; 
 And might be Jeen fly among them 
 Stones, arrows, and quarrels. 
 But ^o effedually exchanged their merils 
 Thoje within with thofe without. 
 That in jhort time many bodies 
 There were wounded and maimed. 
 And I know not how many killed. 
 
 jANT les genz de armes percurent 
 Ke li Jergant tels maus recurent, 
 Ki comencie orent le ajQfaut, 
 Meint en i court, meint en i Jaut, 
 E meint Ji hajle ji de aler, 
 Ke a nulli ne en daigne parler. 
 Lors i peujl on reveoir 
 Auji ejpes pieres chaoir. 
 Cum ji on en deujl poudrer, 
 E chapeaus e heames effrondrer, 
 EJcus et targes depejcier ; 
 Car de tuer et de blejcier 
 EJloit li ju dont cil juoient ; 
 Ki a granz cris Je entrehuoient 
 Kant mal veoient avenir. 
 
 HEN the men at arms Jaw 
 That the foot-men had Jiiffered ^o much, 
 Who had begun the attack, 
 Many of them ran there, many leaped there, 
 And many a one ujed Juch hajle to go. 
 That he did not deign to fpeak to any one. 
 Then might there be jeen again 
 Stones fall ^o thickly. 
 As if they would rain them, 
 And hats and helmets crujhed, 
 Shields and targets broken in pieces ; 
 For to kill and wound 
 
 Was the game at which they were playing ; 
 Who jhouted at each other with great cries, 
 When they perceived any damage occur. 
 
 jA vi-je tout primer venir 
 ^ Le bon Bertram de Montbouchier ; 
 De goules furent trois pichier 
 En jbn ejcu de argent luijant. 
 En le ourle noire li bejant. 
 
 gg HERE firjl of all I faw come 
 
 ^♦y^ The good Bertram de Montbouchier ; ^ 
 
 There were three red pitchers 
 
 On his Jhield Jhining with jilver, 
 
 With bejants in a black border. 
 
 jERARD de Gondronvile o li, 
 Bacheler legier e joli ; 
 
 |ITH him Gerard de Gondronville," 
 An active and handfome bachelor ; 
 
 * Bertram de Montbouchier, who afled fo diftinguiftied a 
 part in the attack on Caerlaverock, was the fon and heir of 
 Bertram deMontbo\ichier,by Margaret, daughter and heirefs 
 of Sir Richard Sutton, and is fuppoied to have been born 
 about the year 1264. His eftates lay principally in the 
 county of Suflex ; but in the loth of Edward II., the king 
 gave him for life the manor of Syhal, in Northumberland, 
 which had been forfeited for rebellion. He died in the 6th 
 
 year of the reign of Edward III. Arms, argent, three 
 pitchers fable within a bordure of the fecond Befante. 
 
 * Gerard de Goundronville, who was no doubt a foreigner, 
 is only once mentioned in contemporary records, and from 
 this mention we learn that on the 1 3th of November, 1 300, 
 that is, five months after the fiege of Caerlaverock, he received 
 from the king a prefent of a fdver cup, on his departure to 
 his native country. Arms, vaire. 
 
28 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 Le ejcu ot vair, ne plus ne meins. 
 Cijl ne orent pas oijeus meins, 
 Car meinte pere amont offrirent, 
 E meinte pejant coup JbufFrirent. 
 
 He had a Jhield of vaire, neither more nor lejs. 
 
 Theje had not idle hands, 
 
 For they threw up many a Jlone, 
 
 And JufFered many a heavy blow. 
 
 jRETOUNS ejloit li primerains, 
 E li Jecunds fu Loherains, 
 Dont nuls ne troeve le autre lent, 
 Ainz donnent baudour e talent 
 As autres de je i acuellier. 
 Lors vint le chajlel aJOfaillir 
 Li Fiz Mermenduc, a baniere, 
 O une grant route e pleniere 
 De bons bachelers ejleus. 
 
 I HE firjl was a Breton, 
 And the Jecond a Lorrainer, 
 Of whom neither finds the other tardy ; 
 So they give encouragement and emulation 
 To the others to imitate them. 
 Then came to ajjail the cajlle 
 Fitz-Marmaduke, with a banner, 
 And a great and full troop 
 Of good and choije bachelors. 
 
 jOBERT de Wileby veus 
 I fu, en or de inde frette. 
 
 J?2^0BERT de Hamfart tout aprejle 
 
 I vi venir, o bele gent, 
 Rouge o trois ejloiles de argent, 
 Tenant le eJcu par les enarmes. 
 
 jOBERT de Willoughby^ feen 
 t^i^ Was there, bearing gold fretty azure. 
 
 f^OBERT de Hamjart,^ fully equipped, 
 \^^ I Jaw arrive there, with a fair troop, 
 Red with three jilver jlars 
 Holding his Jhield by the Jlraps. 
 
 lENRI de Graham unes armes 
 Avoit vermeiUes cumme fane, 
 O un Jautour e au chief blanc, 
 Ou ot trois vermeiUes cokilles. 
 
 jENRY de Graham' his arms 
 Had red as blood, 
 With a white Jaltire and chief. 
 On which he had three red ejcalopjhells. 
 
 jHOMAS de Richemont, ki killes 
 Fejoit de lances derechief, 
 O deus jumeaus de or e au chief 
 Avoit vermeiUes armeures. 
 
 jHOMAS de Richmont,* who ninepins 
 Of lances made again. 
 With a chief and two gemells of gold. 
 Had red armour. 
 
 ' Robert de Willoughby was the eldeft fon of William 
 de Willoughby, by Alice, daughter and coheirefs of John 
 Bek, Lord of Erefby. He was born in 1270. He ferved in 
 the expedition to Gafcony in the 25th of Edward I, three 
 years before the fiege of Caerlaverock. He ferved in the 
 Scottifh wars under Edward II. Through his wife, he was 
 one of the heirs of Anthony Bek, Bilhop of Durham. He 
 died in 1316. Arms, Willoughby of Erefby, or, frette 
 azure ; but after the death of Bilhop Bek, Robert de Wil- 
 loughby adopted the arms of that family. 
 
 " Robert de Haumfart is believed to have been the fon of 
 Sir John Hamfard,Lordof Evenwood in Durham. In 130 1, 
 the year following that of the fiege of Caerlaverock, he was 
 again fummoned to ferve in the Scottifh wars ; and two 
 years afterwards he was appointed a commiflioner of array 
 in the county of Durham. He was alfo employed in the 
 wars of Scotland under Edward II j but we are ignorant of 
 
 the dates of his birth or death. Arms, gules, three mullets 
 argent. 
 
 * Henry de Graham. Of this name all the information we 
 have is that a Henry de Graham was one of the peers of Scot- 
 land who, in 1283, agreed to receive Margaret of Norway 
 for their fovereign. Arms, gules, a faltire argent 5 on a chief 
 of the fecond, three efcallops of the firft. Thefe arms Ihow 
 him to be nearly allied to the houfe of Graham in Scotland. 
 
 * Thomas de Richmont is not mentioned in documents 
 before«this expedition to befiege Caerlaverock, but he is 
 fpoken of in fubfequent years as ferving at various times 
 againft the Scots. His family eftates appear to have lain 
 chiefly about Richmond in Yorkftiire ; but he had lands in 
 Cumberland, and in 13 14 he received a grant of the caftle 
 and honour of Cockermouth for life. Nothing is known 
 of the time of his birth or death. Arms, gules, tworbars 
 gemels, and a chief or. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK, 
 
 29 
 
 Cijl ne vont pas cum gens meures, 
 Ne cum genz de Jen alumees, 
 Mes cum arjes e enfumes 
 De orguel e de malencolie ; 
 Car droit ont lour voie acuellie 
 Juk a la rive du fojje. 
 
 Theje do not go like dijcreet people, 
 
 Nor as perjbns enlightened by underjlanding ; 
 
 But as men inflamed and blinded 
 
 With pride and dejpair ; 
 
 For they have made their way right forwards 
 
 To the very brink of the ditch. 
 
 CIL de Richemont pajje 
 A meintenant juques au pont ; 
 Le entre demande ; on li rejpont 
 De grojQTes pieres e cornues. 
 Wilebi en Jes avenues 
 Ot une piere en mi le pis, 
 Dont bien devroit porter le pis 
 Son ejcu, ji le daignoit faire. 
 
 ^^ND he of Richmont has pajjed 
 j^MvV At this moment quite to the bridge ; 
 He demands entry ; they an/wer him 
 With Jlones great and Jharp. 
 Willoughby in his advances 
 Received a Jlone in the middle of his breajl. 
 The worjl of which ought to have been borne 
 By his Jhield, if he had deigned to do ^o. 
 
 II fiz Mermenduc eel affaire 
 Tant entreprijl a endurer, 
 Cum li autre i porent durer, 
 Car il ejlut cum une ejlache ; 
 Mes Ja baniere ot meinte tache 
 E meint pertuis mal a recoujlre. 
 
 i»^ITZ-MARMADUKE this affair 
 
 j^^^ Has undertaken to endure 
 
 As long as the others could remain there, 
 
 For he Jlood like a pojl ; 
 
 But his banner received many a jlain, 
 
 And many a rent difficult to mend. 
 
 jAMSART tant noblement fe i moujlre, 
 Ke de fon eJcu moult fouvent 
 Voit on voler le taint au vent. 
 Car il e cil de Richemont 
 Ruent lour pieres contremont, 
 Cum Ji ce fujl as enviales ; 
 E cil dedenz a deffiailes 
 Lour enchargent tejles e cous 
 De I'emcombrance de granz cups. 
 
 m 
 
 AMSART bears himfelf fo nobly there. 
 That from his Jhield very often 
 
 The colour is Jeen flying to the wind. 
 For he, and he of Richmont, 
 Drive the Jlones upwards 
 As if it were in play ; 
 Whiljl thofe within in defiance 
 Load their heads and necks 
 With the weight of great blows. 
 
 jIL de Graham ne fu pas quites ; 
 Car ne vaudra deus pomes quites 
 Kanques entere emportera 
 De I'ejcu, kant s'en partira. 
 
 jE of Graham did not ejcape ; 
 For it will not be worth two apples 
 All that he will carry away entire 
 Of hisjfiield, when he leaves the battle. 
 
 5S-V0US la noife comencie ; 
 Ovoec eus Je ejl entrelancie 
 De genz le roi une grant majje, 
 Dont Ji je touz les nons nomajje, 
 E recontaijje les bons fais, 
 Trop m'en Jeroit pej*ans li fais, 
 Tant furent e tant bien le firent. 
 
 jEHOLD the tumult begins ; 
 With them is intermixed 
 A great body of the king's followers. 
 All whofe names if I were to repeat. 
 And recount their brave adions, 
 The labour would be too heavy for me. 
 So many were there, and Jo well did they fight. 
 
30 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERL AVEROCK. 
 
 E non porquant pas ne Jbuffirent, 
 
 Sanz la maijnie au fiz le roi, 
 
 Ki moult i vint de noble aroi. 
 
 Kar meinte targe frejchement 
 
 Peinte e guarnie richement, 
 
 Meinte heaume, e meint chapeau burni, 
 
 Meint riche gamboi/on guarni 
 
 De jbi e cadas e coton, 
 
 En lour venue veijl-on, 
 
 De diverjes tailles e forges. 
 
 Neverthelejs they were not Jiifficient, 
 
 Without thofe of the retinue of the king's Jon, 
 
 Who came there in very noble array. 
 
 For many a Jhield newly 
 
 Painted and adorned Jplendidly, 
 
 Many a helmet, and many a burnijhed hat, 
 
 Many a rich gambejbn garnijhed 
 
 With Jilk, tow, and cotton, 
 
 Were there to be Jeen as they came. 
 
 Of divers (hapes and makes. 
 
 ILUEQUES vi-je Rauf de Gorges, 
 Chevalier nouvel adoube, 
 De peres a tere tumbe, 
 E defoule plus de une foiz ; 
 Car tant ejloit de grant bufoiz, 
 Ke il ne s'en deignoit departir. 
 Tout jbn harnois e Jon atire 
 Avoit majcle de or e de ajur. 
 
 jHERE Jaw I Ralph de Gorges,* 
 A knight newly-dubbed. 
 Thrown to the ground by Jlones, 
 And bruijed more than once ; 
 For he was ^o haughty of fpirit, 
 That he would not deign to retire. 
 He had all his harnejs and attire 
 Majcally of gold and azure. 
 
 jEUS ki ejloient Jur le mur 
 Robert de Tony mult grevoit ; 
 Car en Ja compaignie avoit 
 Le bon Richart de la Rokele, 
 Ki ceus dedenz Ji enparkele, 
 Ke moult Jbuvent les fait retraire. 
 Cil ot fon ejcu fait portraire 
 Mafcle de goules e de ermine. 
 
 IHOSE who were on the wall 
 HaraJJed much Robert de Tony; 
 But there was in his company 
 The good Richard de Rokeley,^ 
 Who lo well plied them within. 
 That he frequently obliged them to retire. 
 He had his Jhield painted 
 Majcally of red and ermine. 
 
 jDAM de la Forde au mur mine 
 En tel maner cum il puet ; 
 Car auji dru cum pluie pluet 
 Volent Jes pieres enz e hors, 
 Dont moult fu defoulez li ors 
 De trois lyonceaus couronnez, 
 Ke il ot rampans en inde nez. 
 
 IDAM de la Forde^ mines at the wall 
 As well as he can, 
 For as thick as rain rains 
 Theje Jlones fly in and out. 
 By which was much crujhed the gold 
 Of three lioncels crowned. 
 Which he bore rampant in clear blue. 
 
 ' Ralph de Gorges cannot be fat'isfactorily identified, as 
 I'everal perfons of that family living about this time bore the 
 name of Ralph ; but he is fuppofed to be the one who, in the 
 33rd Edward I, obtained a grant of market and fair in his 
 manor of Liditon in Dorfetfhire, and of free warren in that of 
 Staunton in Devon. He was a man of fome importance in 
 the reign of Edward II, for he was appointed juftice of 
 Ireland by that monarch in the 14th year of his reign. He 
 died in 1323. Arms, mafcally or and azure. 
 
 ' Richard de Rokefle appears here as a knight of Suffolk, 
 and he was therefore no doubt the individual who held lands 
 
 in that county and in Norfolk. He had been employed in 
 military fervice in Scotland before the events related in this 
 poem. In 1302 he was elefted a knight of the (hire for 
 Norfolk. He appears to have been fummoned to ferve in 
 the various Scottifti wars until 1 3 1 9, after which date nothing 
 more is heard of him. Arms, mafcally gules and ermine. 
 
 * Adam de la Ford is fuppofed to be the individual who is 
 mentioned in the 26th of Edward I. as then poifefled of the 
 manor of Wickford in Wiltfliire, and who died about the 
 year 1 325. Arms, azure, three lioncels rampant and crowned 
 or. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAV EROCK. 
 
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 IE bon baroun de Wiguetone, 
 §1 Merveilleis efl ke tout ne ejlone 
 Li fais des coups ke il i recoit j 
 Car ja ce ke venus i Jbit, 
 Sanz Jegnour hors de retenance, 
 Ja plus n'en a la contenance 
 EJbahie ne ejpoentee. 
 Cil portoit bordure endentee, 
 O trois ejloiles de or en jable. 
 
 g^HE good Baron of Wigtown,^ 
 
 jgj It is a wonder he is not quite Jlunned 
 By the weight of blows he receives there ; 
 For though he came there 
 Without lord or pay, 
 None Jhows a bearing 
 More rejblute or unembarrajjed. 
 He bore a bordure indented, 
 With three gold Jlars on Jable. 
 
 EINTE pejant piere e quaijjable 
 Cil de Kirkebride i porta ; 
 Mes le ejcu blanc devant bouta, 
 O la crois verde engreellie, 
 Si ke mult fu bien ajallie 
 De li la porte du chajlel ; 
 Car onques fevres de martel 
 Si Jiir Jon fer martela, 
 Cum il e li Jien firent la. 
 Non porquant tant i ont ejle 
 De grojjes pieres tempejle, 
 E de quareaus e de Jagettes, 
 Ke de blejQfures e plaiettes 
 Sont Ji las e Ji amorti, 
 Ke a mult grant peine Jbnt parti. 
 
 |AN Y a heavy and crujhing Jlone did 
 He of Kirkbride*^ receive there. 
 But he placed before him his white Jhield 
 With the green crojs engrailed, 
 So that Jloutly was ajjailed 
 The gate of the cajlle by him ; 
 For never did Jmith with hammer 
 Strike his iron Jo hard 
 As he and his did there. 
 Notwithjlanding, there had been Jo many 
 Huge Jlones Jhowered upon them, 
 And quarrels, and arrows. 
 That with wounds and bruijes 
 They were Jo wearied and exhaujled. 
 That it was with very great difficulty they retired. 
 
 ES ainz ke il Je en fuj^fent partiz, 
 Cil de Cliffort, cum avertiz, 
 E cum cil ki ne a eu pourpos 
 Ke cil dedenz aient repos, 
 I a Ja baniere envoie ; 
 E tant cum bien le a convoie 
 De Badeljmere Bartholmieius, 
 
 jUT as foon as they had retreated, 
 He of Clifford, being informed of it, 
 And like one who had no intention 
 That thofe within Jhould have repofe, 
 Has Jent his banner there ; 
 And while it has well e/corted 
 Bartholomew de Badlejmere,^ 
 
 * The Baron of Wigton was John, the fon and heir of 
 Walter de Wigton, whom he fucceeded in 1289, and was 
 frequently employed in the wars of Edward I. In the 29th 
 of that reign, he was returned a knight of the (hire for the 
 county of Cumberland. In a document of the date of 1 307, 
 printed in the " Foedera," he is ftyled as here John, Baron 
 of Wigton. In the reign of Edward II. he joined the party 
 of the Earl of Lancafter. He died in 1315. Arms,C?Lh\et 
 three eftoils within a bordure indented or. 
 
 * Richard de Kiricbride wasof Kirkbride in Cumberland. 
 He was frequently employed againft the Scots, both in this 
 reign and that of Edward II. He is fuppofed to have died 
 in 1 331. Arms, argent, a crofs engrailed vert. Another 
 contemporary authority fubftitutes a faltire for the crofs. 
 
 * Bartholomew de Badlefmere was the fon and heir of Sir 
 Guncelinede Badlefmere, and was born about the year 1275. 
 
 In the 26th of Edward I. he was employed in military fervice 
 in Flanders. In the year of the fiege of Caerlaverock, his 
 father died, and Bartholomew fucceeded to the eftates. In 
 the 35th of Edward I, he was returned a knight of the fliire 
 for the county of Kent. He was made governor of Briftol 
 caftle immediately after the acceflion of Edward II. In the 
 3rd of Edward II. he obtained a grant of the caftle and 
 'manor of Chilham in Kent. In the December of 1308, he 
 was made captain of the forces then fent into Scotland. He 
 was now rapidly rifing in importance, and in fucceflive 
 years received many grants and appointments. In i 316 he 
 was fent to reprefs the rebellion of Llewelyn Prince of Wales. 
 The fame year he was fent as one of the ambafladors to the 
 court of Savoy ; and in the following year he went to Roms 
 in the fame capacity. In 13 19, he was appointed fteward 
 of the king's houfehold, and was fubfequently employed in 
 
32 
 
 THE ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK. 
 
 Johans de Cromewelle au mieus 
 Ke puet i a mije ]e entente ; 
 Car nuls de ceus ne fait atente 
 De abejjier e pieres cuellier, 
 E de ruer, e de ajjaillir, 
 Tant cum durer lour puet aleine. 
 
 !* ES les genz a la chajleleine 
 aS>gaa Ne lour lejQfent avoir Jbujour. 
 Badel/inere, ki tout le jour 
 Iluec je contint bien e bel, 
 Portoit en blanc, au bleu label, 
 Fejje rouge entre deuz jumeaus. 
 Cromewelle, li preus, li beaus, 
 Ke entre le pieres va tripant, 
 En inde ot blanc lyon rampant, 
 Couronne de or, o double coue. 
 Mes ne croi pas ke il la refcoue 
 Ke iluec ne li Jbit recoupee, 
 Tant fu de pieres ejlampe 
 E broie, ainz ke il je en ala. 
 
 IPRES ceus deuz revindrent la 
 La Warde e Johans de Gray, 
 Ke de nouvel ont envay 
 Ceus dedenz, ki bien atendent, 
 E ars e arbalejles tendent, 
 E traient de lour ejpringaut, 
 E bien je tienent paringaut 
 E au getter e au lancier. 
 
 jUIS vont le ajjaut recommencier 
 Le gens mon jegnour de Bretaigne, 
 
 John de Cromwell,^ as well 
 
 As he could, has employed himjelf there ; 
 
 For none of them ceajed 
 
 To jloop and pick up Jiones, 
 
 And to throw them, and attack, 
 
 So long as their breath lajled. 
 
 jUT the people of the lady of the cajlle 
 Did not permit them to remain there quiet. 
 Badlejmere, who all the day 
 Behaved himjelf there well and bravely, 
 Bore on white, with a blue label, 
 A red fejs between two gemelles. 
 Cromwell, the brave and handjbme, 
 Who went hopping among the jlones. 
 Bore on blue a white Hon rampant, 
 Crowned with gold, and double tailed. 
 But I believe he will not bring it away 
 Without being curtailed there. 
 So much was it battered by jlones. 
 And crujhed, before he retreated. 
 
 ^^ FTER theje two returned there 
 j^^.^ La Warde and John de Gray, 
 Who renewed the attack upon 
 Tho/e within, who are fully expe6ting it, 
 And bend their bows and crojs-bows. 
 And jhoot with their efpringalls, 
 And keep themjelves equally ready 
 Both to throw and to hurl. 
 
 I HEN go to recommence the ajfault 
 The followers of my Lord of Britany, 
 
 many high diplomatic and military fervices. He was 
 conftable of Dover and the Cinque Ports in 132 1. In fpite 
 of all thefe great favours received from the king, Badlef- 
 mere joined the Earl of Lancafter in his attempt to obtain 
 a reform of the government, and thus became an objeft of 
 the efpecial hatred of Edward II. After the defeat of 
 Thomas of Lancafter at Boroughbridge, Badlefmere, who 
 became a prifoner, was fent to Canterbury, and there hanged 
 as a traitor, and his head fet on a pole at Burgate. Arms, 
 argent, a fefs between two bars gemels gules ; differenced 
 at this time by a label azure, becaufe his father was ftill 
 ali^. 
 
 ' John de Cromwell is fuppofed to have been the fon and 
 fuccefTor of a Ralph de Cromwell, who was living in the 
 35th of Edward I. He ferved conftantly in the Scottifh 
 wars of that monarch, and after the acceffion of Edward II. 
 he foon rofe very high in royal favour. He was fummoned 
 
 to parliament as a baron in 1308, and foon afterwards he 
 was appointed conftable of the Tower of London, befides 
 other important offices. In 1310, he was appointed ambaf- 
 fador to France. He continued to be one of the leading 
 peers of England and was loaded with court favours, until 
 he joined the rebellion of Thomas of Lancafter, when his 
 vaft tftates were forfeited, and he only recovered them after 
 the acceffion of Edward III. But he appears, neverthelefs, 
 to have recovered fomewhat of the king's favour, for in 1 324 
 he was admiral of the king's fleet, and in that capacity 
 efcorted Queen Ifabel in her vifit to France. He recovered 
 the office of conftable of the Tower from Edward III, whom 
 he ferved in the Scottifh wars, until 1333, when he is fup- 
 pofed to have died. Arms, azure, a lion rampant double - 
 queued argent, crowned or. He alfo ufed the coat of Vipont, 
 gules, fix annulets or, in the right of his wife, who was one 
 of the heireffes of that family. 
 
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THE ROLL OF CJERLA FEROCK. 
 
 33 
 
 Cum il lyon de la montaigne 
 Corajoufes e empernans, 
 E Jbnt chejcun jour apernans 
 Le fait de armes e le mejlier. 
 Mult tojl couvrent li portier 
 Du chajlel lour acointement, 
 Car autre plus felounement 
 Ainz ne les orent ajjili. 
 Non porquant ne ont mie faiUi, 
 Ke ki ke pres viegne ne ait part 
 De lour livree ainz ke il Je enpart, 
 Tant ke plus ke ajjez li enfemble. 
 
 APRES ceus iluec fe ajemble 
 
 La gent mon fegnour de Hajlingues ; 
 
 Ou je vi Johan de Cretingues 
 
 En peril de perdre un cheval, 
 
 Kant fur li un vint contre val 
 
 EJperonnant au jaietiz ; 
 
 Mes pas ne Jemble ejlre faintiz, 
 
 Ki tant Je hajle au fait ateindre. 
 
 En jbn blanc ejcu ot fait teindre 
 
 Un chievron rouge o trois molettes. 
 
 As lions of the mountain 
 
 Fierce and daring, 
 
 And every day learning 
 
 The praSice and uje of arms. 
 
 Very Jbon clofed the porters 
 
 Of the cajlle their acquaintance, 
 
 For none more furioujly 
 
 Had attacked them before. 
 
 Neverthelejs they have not failed, 
 
 That whoever comes near had not his Jhare 
 
 In their liberality before he goes away, 
 
 Till it Jeems to him more than enough. 
 
 ^^ ND after the/e ajjemble there 
 
 ji^ytl The people of my Lord of Hajlings ; 
 
 Where I jaw John de Cretingues^ 
 
 In danger of lojing a horje. 
 
 When one came down upon him 
 
 Spurring like an arrow ; 
 
 But he did not jeem to be feining. 
 
 He ujed Juch hajle to attain his objeS. 
 
 On his white Jhield he had caujed to be depi6?ed 
 
 A red chevron with three red mullets. 
 
 J^^IL ki porte dance e bilettes 
 
 De or en ajur, al ajjaut court, 
 
 Johans avoit a non Daincourt, 
 Ki mult bien i fijl Jbn devoir. 
 
 IE who bears a dancette and billets 
 Of gold on blue, rujhes to the ajjault ; 
 He was named John Deincourt,' 
 Who there very well performed his duty. 
 
 ^^ NSI le firent bien por voir, 
 j?^!^ En recevant meinte colee, 
 Li bon frere de Berkelee, 
 E li ij. frere Bajfet auji, 
 Dont li ains nez portoit enji, 
 De ermine au chief rouge endente 
 De trois molettes de or ente ; 
 Li autres de cokilles trois. 
 
 jO alfo did in truth, 
 In receiving many a blow, 
 The good brothers of Berkeley, 
 And the two brothers Bajfet^ likewije, 
 Of whom the eldejl bore thus, 
 Ermine, a red chief indented. 
 Charged with three gold mullets ; 
 The other with three Jhells. 
 
 ' John de Creting was the fon of Sir Adam de Creting, 
 from whom he inherited lands in the counties of Eflex, 
 Huntingdon, Suffolk, and in Wales. He is believed to 
 have been born between 1275 and 1279. He ferved in the 
 wars of Edwards I. and II, and he was fumraoned to parlia- 
 ment as a baron in the 6th of Edward III. (1325), after 
 which date we hear no more of him j but he is fuppofed to 
 have died about 1333 or 1334. Arms, argent, a chevron 
 between three mullets gules. 
 
 ' John Deincourt is fuppofed to have been a younger fon 
 
 of Edmund Lord Deincourt, mentioned in an earlier part 
 of this poem. Arms, as here defcrlbed, azure, billetee and a 
 fefs dancette or. 
 
 ^ The brothers Baffet were Sir Edward and Sir John, 
 knights of the county of Gloucefter; but nothing certain is 
 known of them. Arms of Sir Edmund Baffet, ermine, on a 
 chief indented gules three mullets or ; of Sir John, ermine, 
 on a chief indented gules three efcallops or. This much we 
 learn from the roll of arms in the '* Cottonian Manufcript," 
 Caligula A. xviii. 
 
3+ 
 
 THE ROLL OF C4ERLAVER0CK. 
 
 Chemins trouveroient ejlrois. 
 
 Cil de dedenz, Je or s'en alajjent ; 
 
 Car touz jours cum li un Je laj]ent, 
 
 Autre i revienent fres e froit. 
 
 Mes porquanques on lour offrit 
 
 De tels ajjaus, ne s'i rendirent, 
 
 Cil dedenz, ainz Je defFendirent, 
 
 E J*e tindrent, ki ke il anuit. 
 
 Tout eel Jour, e tout la nuit, 
 
 E lendemein juques a terce. 
 
 Mes durement eus e lour fierce 
 
 Entre les ajjaus ejmaia 
 
 Frere Robert, k'i envoia 
 
 Meinte piere par robinet, 
 
 Juk au Jbir des le matinet 
 
 Le jour devant cejje ne avoit. 
 
 De autre part oncore i levoit 
 
 Trois autres enginz moult plus granz. 
 
 E il penibles e engranz, 
 
 Ke le chajlel du tout confonde. 
 
 Tent e retent, met piere en fonde, 
 
 Dejbche e quanques ateint fent, 
 
 A Jes coups rien ne Je defFent, 
 
 Bors de bretejche ne gros fus. 
 
 Non porquant n'en firent refus ; 
 
 Ainz tindrent touz jes envians 
 
 Cil de dedenz, tant ke en mians 
 
 En fu uns ferus a la mort. 
 
 Mes lors checuns de eus Je remort 
 
 De Jon orguel, e J*e ejbahi ; 
 
 Car auji li combles chay 
 
 Par tout, par ou la piere entra ; 
 
 E kant acun de eus encontra, 
 
 Chapeaus de fer, targe de fujl 
 
 Ne Jauva ke blejciez ne fuJl. 
 
 Thoje within would find the roads 
 
 Narrow, if they attempted to ejcape ; 
 
 For always as one became fatigued, 
 
 Others returned there frejh and jlout. 
 
 But notwithjlanding Juch ajjaults 
 
 Made upon them, thoJe within 
 
 Did not furrender, but Jo defended themjelves. 
 
 That they held out, in dejpite of all, 
 
 All that day and night, , 
 
 And the next day till tierce. 
 
 But greatly their courage and force 
 
 DepreJJed during the attack 
 
 Brother Robert, who Jent there 
 
 Many a Jlone by the robinet, 
 
 From dawn to night 
 
 The day before he had not ceajed. 
 
 Moreover on the other Jide he was erecting 
 
 Three other engines, much larger. 
 
 And he with pain and labour 
 
 Who confounds the cajlle entirely. 
 
 Bends and bends again, puts Jlones in the Jling, 
 
 Dijcharges and Jplits everything he hits. 
 
 Nothing rejijls his blows, 
 
 Bretejche nor great timber. 
 
 Yet they did not flinch ; 
 
 But held upon their defence, 
 
 ThoJe within, until unexpe^edly 
 
 One of them was killed by a blow. 
 
 But then each begins to repent 
 
 Of his objlinacy, and to be dijmayed, 
 
 For aljb the roof fell in 
 
 On all Jides, whereby the Jlones entered ; 
 
 And whomever one of them jlruck. 
 
 Neither iron cap, nor wooden target. 
 
 Saved him from being wounded. 
 
 QUANT virent ke plus durer 
 Ne porrent, ne plus endurer. 
 Pas requitrent li compaignon, 
 Et bouterent hors un penon. 
 Mes celuy ki hors le bouta, 
 Ne jai ques Jergans Jaieta 
 Par mi la mien juk en la face. 
 Lors requijl c'on plus ne li face. 
 Car le chajlel au roi rendront, 
 E en Ja grace hors vendront. 
 
 K^iND when they Jaw that hold longer 
 
 K^tS They could not, or endure more, 
 
 The companions begged for peace. 
 
 And put out a pennon. 
 
 But he who dijplayed it 
 
 Was Jhot by an arrow, by Jbme archer. 
 
 Through the hand into the face. 
 
 Then he begged that they would dejijl, 
 
 For they will give up the ca/lle to the king. 
 
 And will come out upon his mercy. 
 
THE ROLL OF CAERLAFEROCK. 
 
 35 
 
 E marechaus e conejlables, 
 Ke ades iluec furent ejlables, 
 A eel moult le ajQfaut defFendirent, 
 E cil le chajlel lour rendirent. 
 
 And marjhal, and conjlable, 
 
 Who were already ejlablijhed there, 
 
 At that notice forbad the aJOfault, 
 
 And theje Jurrendered the cajlle to them. 
 
 jORS s'en iflirent, ce ejl la Jbme, 
 Ke de uns ke de autres Jeijant home, 
 A grant merveille rej*guarde. 
 Mes tenu furent e guarde, 
 Tant ke li rois en ordena, 
 Ki vie e menbre lour dona, 
 E a chejcun robe nouvele. 
 Lors fu joiouje la nouvele 
 A toute le ojl du chajlel pris, 
 Ki tant ejloit de noble pris. 
 
 IHEN they came out, in number 
 Of different forts Jixty men, 
 Who were beheld with much ajlonijhment. 
 But they were kept and guarded 
 Till the king dijpofed of them. 
 Who gave them life and limb, 
 And to each a new robe. 
 Then was the whole hojl rejoiced 
 At the news of the conquejl of the cajlle. 
 Which was Jo noble a prize. 
 
 UIS fijl le rois porter a mont 
 
 3 Sa baniere e la Seint Eymont, 
 La Seint George, e la Seint Edwart, 
 E o celes par droit ejwart 
 La Segrave e la Herefort, 
 E eel au feignour de Cliffort, 
 A ki li chajleaus fu donnez. 
 
 PUIS a li rois ordenez. 
 
 Cum cils ki de guere ejl mut fages, 
 Touz Jes chemins e Jes pajjages 
 Comment ira parmie Gawee, 
 Cele fort tere loee. 
 
 I HEN the king caujed them to raije up 
 His banner, and that of St. Edmond, 
 That of St. George, and that of St. Edward, 
 And with them, by right award, 
 Thoje of Segrave and Hereford, 
 And that of the Lord of Clifford, 
 To whom the cajlle was entrujled. 
 
 ^TA^ND then the king has ordered, 
 
 ft^)^ Who is fo well Jkilled in war. 
 
 All the roads and pajjages 
 
 How they Jhould proceed through Gallowaj', 
 
 That jlrong and important land. 
 
 Ci finiji le Siege de Karlaverok. 
 
 Here ends the Siege of Caerlaverock. 
 
sinner of tit iSames of Iptinceg, TBarong, ano Emgj)t0 
 in tfje EoU of Caerlatjetocfe. 
 
 RUNDEL, Richard Earl of, 21. 
 
 Badlefmere, Bartholomew de, 31, 32. 
 
 Baliol, Alexander de, 25. 
 Bar, John de, 10. 
 Bardolph, Hugh de, 2. 
 Baflet, the Brothers, 33. 
 Beauchamp, John de, 9. 
 Beauchamp, Walter de, i J. 
 Berkeley, Maurice de, 24. 
 Berkeley, the Brothers, 33^ 
 Botetourte, John, 14. 
 Brette, Eurmenions de la, 11. 
 Britany, John of, 9, 32. 
 
 Cantilupe, William de, 1 7. 
 Carew, Nicholas de, 7. 
 Clavering, John, 4. 
 Clifford, Robert, Lord of 1 1, 31, 35. 
 Courtenay, Hugh de, 13. 
 Creon, Maurice de, 11. 
 Cretingues, John de, 33. 
 Cromwell, John de, 32. 
 
 Deincourt, Edmond, 24. 
 Deincourt, John, 33. 
 Defpencer, Hugh le, 12. 
 Dunbar, Patrick of, 15. 
 Durham, Bifhop of, 22. 
 
 Edward III., the King, 1, 9. 
 Engaigne, John de, 13. 
 Eftrange, John le, 1 6. 
 
 Ferrers, William de, 20. 
 Fitz-Alan, Brian, 15. 
 Fitz-Marmaduke, 24, 28, 29. 
 Fitz-Paine, Robert, 6. 
 Fitz-Roger, Robert, 4. 
 Fitz- Walter, Robert, 2. 
 Fitz- William, Ralph, 8. 
 Forde, Adam de la, 30. 
 Frefel, Simon de, 15. 
 Furnival, Thomas de, 16. 
 
 Gloucefter, Countefs of, 21. 
 
 Gondronville, Gerard de, 27. 
 Gorges, Ralph de, 30. 
 Graham, Henry de, 28, 29. 
 Grandifon, William de, 10. • 
 Grey, Henry de, 3. 
 Grey, John de, 17, 32. 
 
 Hache, Euftace de la, 14. 
 Hamfart, Robert de, 28, 29. 
 Haftings, John de, 23, 33. 
 Haftings, Edmond, 23. 
 Hereford, Earl of, 4. 
 Holdefton, John de, 3. 
 Huntercombe, 16. 
 
 Kirkbride, 3 i . 
 
 Lancafter, John de, 3. 
 Lancafter, Thomas, Earl of, 20. 
 Lancafter, Henry, 20. 
 Laonois, Count of, 14. 
 Latimer, William le, 19, 20. 
 Leyburne, William de, 19. 
 Lincoln, Henry, Earl of, 2. 
 
 Mare, John de la, 1 6. 
 Marfhall, William le, 2. 
 Mohun, John de, 8. 
 Monbouchier, Bertram de, 27. 
 Money, Walter de, 6. 
 Montagu, Simon de, 17. 
 Monthermer, Ralph de, 21. 
 Montalt, Robert de, 3 
 Mortaigne, Roger de, 16. 
 Mortimer, Hugh de, 17. 
 Mortimer, Roger de, 19. 
 
 Paignel, John, 24. 
 Percy, Henry de, 6. 
 Pointz, Hugh, 9, 16. 
 
 Richmond, Thomas de, 2 3, 29. 
 Ridre, William de, 16. 
 Rivers, John de, 11. 
 Rokely, Richard de, 30. 
 Ros, William de, 8. 
 
38 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Scales, Robert de, 14. 
 Segrave, Nicholas de, 4. 
 Segrave, John de, 5. 
 St. Amand, Aumary de, 13. 
 St. John, John de, 18, 20, zi. 
 Suwart, Richard, 15. 
 
 Tateftiall, 8. 
 
 Tony, Robert de, 18, 30. 
 Toucher, Emlam, 14. 
 Tyes, Henry le, 18. 
 
 Valence, Aymer de, 7. 
 
 Vavaflbur, William le, 3. 
 Vere, Hugh de, ll. 
 
 Wales, Edward, Prince of, 1 7. 
 Warde, Robert de la, 32. 
 Ware, Roger de la, 7. 
 Warenne, John, Earl of, 6. 
 Warwick, Guy, Earl of, 8. 
 Welles, Adam de, 1 4. 
 Willoughby, Robert de, 28. 
 Wigtown, Baron of, 31. 
 
 Zouch, Alan de la, 22. 
 
 3[ntjer of tfie Localitieg mentioneti in tf)e il^otes. 
 
 ILCESTRE, Manor of, Warwickfliire, 
 
 Alnwick, 6. 
 
 Anglefey, 1 1 . 
 Anjou, 1 1. 
 
 Aquitaine, 10, 18, 23, 24. 
 Alhby, Leicefterfliire, 22. 
 Afperton, Herefordfhire, 10. 
 Ayr, Caftle of, 21. 
 
 Baliol College, Oxford, 25. 
 
 Bannockburn, 5, 7, 11, 15, 21. 
 
 Beaumaris Caftle, Ifle of Anglefea, 17. 
 
 Berwick-upon-Tweed, 8, 15. 
 
 Berwick Caftle, 15. 
 
 Boulogne, 18. 
 
 Bordeaux, 13. 
 
 Boroughbridge, 4, 12, 20, 32. 
 
 Briftol, 12, 31. 
 
 Britany, 10. 
 
 Burgate, 32. 
 
 Burgh, in Gafcony, 7. 
 
 Canterbury, 32. 
 
 Carlifle, 8, 11, 16. 
 
 Ceftreton, Warwickfliire, 14. 
 
 Chefter, 20. 
 
 Chilham, Kent, 25, 3 1. 
 
 Chirk, 19. 
 
 Cinqueports, 32. 
 
 Clavering, Effex, 4. 
 
 Clun, 21. 
 
 Cockermouth Caftle, 28. 
 
 Cod nor, 9. 
 
 Corfe Caftle, 6, 7. 
 
 Cumberland, 3, 28, 31. 
 
 Dean, Foreft of, 14. 
 Derby, 16, 21. 
 Devizes, Caftle of, 12. 
 Dorfetftiire, 6. 
 Dover, 13, 20, 32. 
 
 Dumfries, 15. 
 Dunbar, 6, il, 12, 14, 15. 
 Durham, Bifliop of, 8, 21, 22, 28. 
 Durham, 15. 
 
 Edinburgh, Caftle of, 16. 
 Egremont, Cumberland, 3. 
 Effex, 4, 33. 
 Evenwood, Durham, 28. 
 Evefliam, 6. 
 
 Falkirk, 4, 8, 14. 
 Flanders, 13, 21, 24, 25, 31. 
 Fountain's Abbey, 6, 
 Framlingham Caftle, Suffolk, 6, 14. 
 France, 7, 8, 10, 11, 32. 
 
 Gafcony, 5, 8, 9, 10, 1 1. 
 Gloucefter, 21 
 Grimfthorpe, Yorkfliire, 8. 
 
 Hache, Manor of, Somerfetfliire, 9. 
 
 Hacche, Wiltftiire, 14. 
 
 Hacke, Wiltftiire, 1 4. 
 
 Haledon Hill, 15. 
 
 Hafelwood, Manor of, Yorkfliire, 3. 
 
 Hereford, 4. 
 
 Herefordfliire, 19. 
 
 Hertford, 21. 
 
 Hordene, Durham, 24. 
 
 Huntingdon, 33. 
 
 Ireland, 2, 7, 30. 
 
 Kent, 2. 
 
 Kilwardeby, Yorkfliire, 15. 
 Kirkhride, Cumberland, 31. 
 Kirkcudbright, 15. 
 
 Lancafter Caftle, 3. 
 Leicefter, 16, 20. 
 Lewes, 6. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 39 
 
 Liditon, Manor of, Dorfetfhire, 30. 
 
 Lincoln, 2, 16. 
 
 Lincoln's Inn, 2. 
 
 Long Compton, Manor of, Warwickfliire, 8. 
 
 Man, Ifle of, 22. 
 
 Marches, Warden of, 8, 1 1 , 1 6. 
 
 Marlborough Cattle, i 2. 
 
 Menftreworth, Manor of, Gloucetterfhire, 10. 
 
 Middle, Shropfhire, 17. 
 
 Milburn, Cumberland, 3. 
 
 Monmouth Cattle, 20. 
 
 Morton-Merhull, 14. 
 
 Norfolk, 2, 6, 30. 
 Northampton, Cattle of, 5. 
 Northumberland, 16. 
 Nottinghamfhire, 16, 17, 21. 
 Nottingham Cattle, 5, 11. 
 
 Odeham Cattle, Hampfhire, 1 2. 
 Oxfordfhire, 16. 
 
 Pevenfey Cattle, 19. 
 Pickering Cattle, Yorkfhire, 19. 
 Pontrefadt, 7, 20. 
 Porchetter Cattle, 18. 
 Portfmouth, 14. 
 
 Radley, Manor of, Gloucetterfhire, 10. 
 
 Richard Cattle, Herefordfhire, 17. 
 
 Richmond, 10. 
 
 Richmond, Yorkftiire, 28. 
 
 Rome, J, 'i^- 
 
 Rockingham Cattle and Forett, Yorkfliire, 14. 
 
 Roflin, 15. 
 
 Rotherfied, Oxfordfhire, 17. 
 
 Saint Briavel, Cattle of, Gloucetterfhire, 14. 
 
 Saint Cyverine, 1 1. 
 
 St. Johns-Town or Perth, 24. 
 
 Salifbury, 2, 17. 
 
 Savoy, 31. 
 
 Selkirk, Forett of, 15. 
 
 Sheffield, Yorkfhire, 1 6. 
 
 Shrewfbury, 16. 
 
 Shropfhire, 19. 
 
 Snowdon, 1 1 . 
 
 Somerfet, 9. 
 
 Staunton, Devon, 30. 
 
 Stirling, 6. 
 
 Suffolk, 30, 33. 
 
 Surrey, 6. 
 
 SufTex, 27. 
 
 Syhal, Northumberland, 27. 
 
 Thornton, 6. 
 
 Wales, 9, 13, 15, 19, 23, 33. 
 
 South Wales, 24. 
 Wallingford Cattle, 24. 
 Warren, 6. 
 
 Warrewike, Gloucetterfhire, 7. 
 Warwick Cattle, 8. 
 Weftmintter, 18. 
 Weftmoreland, 3. 
 Whittington, 21. 
 Wickford, Wiltfhire, 30. 
 Winchefter Cattle, 6. 
 
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