[96] Blore’s “Monumental Remains.”
[97] “Siege of Carlaverock.”
[98] This celebrated Inn of Court is recorded to have been the town residence of the Bishops of Chichester, from the reign of Henry III. till that of Henry VIII. It seems, however, to have been for a short time possessed by the subject of this memoir, who, although the only Earl of Lincoln who resided there, left it the name, which it has permanently retained during the five subsequent centuries. The arms of Lacy, on the gatehouse in Chancery-Lane, were erected by Sir Thomas Lovel, together with his own, 1518.
[99] Vide Langtoft, vol. ii. 275–6. This author does not say a word of Baliol and his barons having been made acquainted with the agreement to surrender the castle on the third day.
[100] From the following reproof, which he gave the Treasurer at Roslin, it would appear that these, or similar monies due to him, had not been justly settled for; and perhaps the chagrin he felt on that account may have partly occasioned his defection from Edward.
“Symon was austere, to Rauf spak fulle grim:
‘That mad the Tresorere thou has desceyued him,
& me & many mo, fro our wages zede quite.
Sir Rauf thou resceyued tho, bi taile & bi scrite,
Thou did vs more trauaile, ilk man thou reft his wage.
Now salle I wite the taile, & put the in the Arerage,
Of preste thou has no merke, albe ne non amite,
Bot laced in a hauberke, thai is no clerkis abite.
For alle tho clerkes of Rome, that sing in kirk or rede,
Thou salle haf thi dome, als thou serued in dede.’”
Langtoft, vol. ii. p. 319.
[101] Harl. MSS. 266.
[102] Harl. MSS. No. 2253.
[103] Ancient Songs.