Walsingham, “Ypodigma Neustriæ,” ed. Riley, p. 235.
Chron. of William Rishanger, ed. Riley, pp. 225-6.
Maitland Club, Chron. de Lanercost, p. 203; and Documents illustrative of Sir William Wallace.
[126] Annales Monastici, ed. Luard, iv. 294, 489. The treatment under Edward I. of “the Celtic fringe” was severe. We see here how Scotch and Welsh were dealt with. In Ireland, in 1301, it was accounted no offence to kill “a mere Irishman.”
[127] Matthew of Westminster, “Flores Hist.,” ed. Luard, iii. 134-5.
[128] Chrons. of the Reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., ed. Stubbs, i. 150, 255. Tyburn is not mentioned in either case.
[129] Stow, Annals, ed. Howes, 1615, pp. 229, 230. The editions of Stow’s Annals quoted throughout are this, and the continuation to 1631.
[130] Several Chronicles mention Tyburn in connection with the execution of Mortimer: “Drawn from the Tower to the Elms and there hanged with contumely,” Chron. of the Reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., ed. Stubbs, i. 352. “Drawn from the Tower of London to the gallows at the Elms, about a league outside the City of London, and there hanged,” Chron. Avesbury, ed. Thompson, p. 285. “Hangyd and drawne at Tyburn for tresoun,” Chron. Grey Friars, ed. Hewett, p. 152. “Hanged at the Elms on the common thieves’ gallows, where he hung two days,” Chron. Murimuth, ed. Thompson, p. 62. Murimuth was a canon of St. Paul’s in 1325; he died in 1347. In another text (Cotton MS. Nero D. x., in the British Museum) quoted in the Chronicle, it is said: “He was drawn by horses, on the common ox-hide, from the Tower of London to the Elms of Tybourne and there hanged.”
This last passage is interesting: the expression “the common ox-hide” indicates that the ox-hide was now regularly used in drawing.
The interesting indictment of Mortimer, in Norman French, is given in Chron. Knighton, ed. Lumby, i. 454-8.