[615] Ibid. p. 51.
[616] Const. Hist., ii. 328.
[617] He was one of those besieging him in Scarborough Castle, May, 1312.
[618] Ed. Hearne, p. 103.
[619] Dictionary of National Biography, li. 204.
[620] The matter has been further complicated by the index to the official calendar of Edward II. Close Rolls, which gives a “Walter de Ferrariis, marshal of England.” The document indexed proves (p. 189) to be a reference (6th July, 1315) to Walter (earl of Pembroke), “late marshal of England.”
[621] Trivet, it is true, even earlier (circ. 1300), wrote of Strongbow as ‘Marshal of England’:—“Ricardus Comes de Strogoil, marescallus Angliæ, terris suis omnibus propter quondam offensam in manu regis acceptis, exsul in Hibernia moratur. Hunc Ricardum Anglici ob præcipuum fortitudinem ‘Strangebowe’ cognominabant” (p. 66). But although the writer may sometimes preserve a forgotten story, he cannot be accepted as an authority for earl Richard’s tenure of an office, of which there is absolutely no trace in any contemporary chronicle or record.
[622] Dictionary of National Biography.
[623] Complete Peerage, vi. 197, 198.
[624] Now MS. Ar. xix. (Brit. Mus.).