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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 339<br />

But when the k<strong>in</strong>g was unwill<strong>in</strong>gly restra<strong>in</strong>ed from <strong>this</strong><br />

purpose by the earl of Brittany, 1 he gave to the earl of Brittany<br />

five thousand marks of silver, and so returned to his own<br />

district.<br />

1232<br />

ANNALS OP D UNSTABLE, IN ANNALES MONASTICI, VOL. Ill,<br />

pp. 128-129.<br />

And [Hubert de Burgh] hav<strong>in</strong>g agreed upon the divorce of<br />

his third wife, to wit the daughter of the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>, 2<br />

for <strong>this</strong> cause that she was related to his second wife, namely<br />

the countess of Gloucester, 8 extended his wickedness by guileful<br />

mach<strong>in</strong>ations, by refus<strong>in</strong>g the audience of good judges, and<br />

maliciously obta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g letters to three judges appo<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> three<br />

corners of England.<br />

1232, Oct.<br />

ROGER WENDOVER, FLORES HISTORIARUM, VOL. Ill, P. 40. 4<br />

At the same time Ranulf, earl of Chester and L<strong>in</strong>coln,<br />

closed his last day at Wall<strong>in</strong>gf ord on the fifth 5 before the<br />

Kalends of November. .<br />

. .<br />

In the earldom of Chester he was succeeded by John, 6 his<br />

nephew by his sister, and son of earl David, the brother of<br />

William k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots.<br />

1234<br />

ROGER WENDOVER, FLORES HISTORIARUM, VOL. Ill, p. 77,<br />

S.A. 1234. 7<br />

. . . [K<strong>in</strong>g Henry] passed through St. Edmundsbury,<br />

and t<strong>here</strong>, moved by pity, he granted to the wife of Hubert de<br />

Burgh 8<br />

eight manors of the lands acquired from her husband,<br />

1 "<br />

By the marshal and the earl of Brittany," M.P., u.s. Peter Mauclerc<br />

was duke of Brittany from 1213 to 1237 : L'Art. iv, 71-72.<br />

2 At <strong>this</strong> time Margaret was <strong>in</strong> St. Edmundsbury, w<strong>here</strong> Hubert de<br />

Burgh had jo<strong>in</strong>ed her after a truce had been granted to him till the octave of<br />

Epiphany [13th January, 1232]; M.P., Chr. Maj., iii, 226.<br />

3<br />

Cf. M.P., Chr. Maj., iii, 205.<br />

4<br />

Cf. M.P., Chr. Maj., iii, 229-230 ; H.A., ii, 349.<br />

5 28th October.<br />

6 For the death of John le Scot <strong>in</strong> 1237 (alleged to be of poison) v. M.P.,<br />

Chr. Maj., iii, 394 ; H.A., ii, 398. Fl. His., ii, 400.<br />

7<br />

After 2nd February. Cf. M.P., Chr. Maj., iii, 271.<br />

Cf. Ann. of Tewkesb., <strong>in</strong> A.M., i, 92, s.a. 1233 :<br />

" Meanwhile the lord<br />

k<strong>in</strong>g went to St. Edmunds, and the countess of Kent was pacified with him ;<br />

and her daughter afterwards went to Bromholm for prayer."<br />

M.P., u.s., says that Margaret " completely humbled herself to him."

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