EVAN of Wales assassinated before Mortmain-sur-mer.
PLATE XXX.
ASSASSINATION OF EVAN OF WALES.
“Evan of Wales,” says Froissart, “was the son of a Prince of Wales, whom King Edward, for some reason I am ignorant of, had put to death, and seized his principality, which he had given to his son the Prince of Wales.” Evan having gone to France to lay his complaint before the French King, received the command of a body of men, and much annoyed the English on many occasions; he eventually laid siege to the town of Mortmain in Poitou; during the siege it was his custom to seat himself in the open air, to have his hair combed and plaited, attended only by one John Lamb, by whom, on one of these occasions, he was treacherously stabbed to death with a short Spanish dagger, and not the singular weapon represented by the illuminator. It appears from an entry relating to the expenses of the war, that Lamb received a hundred francs recompense for this deed, as one exceedingly agreeable to the Prince of Wales.