Note 3. I find no indication of the date: only that she was at Ludlow on October 26, 1330.
Note 4. The precise date and place are not recorded, but it was about this time, and the King, who was present, was in the West only from December 16th to the 21st. It is asserted by Walsingham that Beatrice was married “about” 1327.
Note 5. The Lady Elaine’s chronicle is “Lady Sybil’s Choice.”
Part 3—- Chapter 1.
Wherein Sister Alianora La Despenser Maketh Moan (1371).
Caged.
“But of all sad words by tongue or pen,
The saddest are these—
‘It might have been!’”
Whittier.
“I marvel if the sun is never weary!”