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282 Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart.<br />

was then marching towards Galloway, should go beyond the said<br />

sea to collect troops. But the king remained on at Berwick.<br />

The said earl received to peace all beyond the Scottish Sea, as far<br />

as the Mounth. After the beginning of Lent 1 the Earls of<br />

Gloucester and Warenne rode through the<br />

great<br />

Forest of<br />

Selkirk, receiving the foresters and others of the Forest to<br />

peace.<br />

About the same time died the noble Henry, Earl of Lincoln,<br />

who was Guardian of England in the<br />

king's absence, in place<br />

of whom the Earl of Gloucester was elected with the king's<br />

consent, and t<strong>here</strong>fore returned from <strong>Scotland</strong> to England.<br />

In the same year died Antony Bek, Patriarch of Jerusalem and<br />

Bishop of Durham (Patriarch, however, only in name), and was<br />

buried with great solemnity in the cathedral church of Durham,<br />

in which church none had<br />

at the northern corner of the east end ;<br />

hitherto been buried save S. Cuthbert. 2<br />

To him succeeded Richard of Kelso, a monk of that monastery<br />

[Durham], soon after Easter, 3 and was consecrated at<br />

York by the archbishop on the feast of Pentecost. 4<br />

In the same year my lord Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, came to<br />

the king in <strong>Scotland</strong>, to do homage for the earldom of Lincoln<br />

which had come to him through his wife after the death of the<br />

aforesaid earl. But, forasmuch as the king was in Berwick, the<br />

earl was advised not to go before him outside the realm to render<br />

homage, neither would the king come across the river to him ;<br />

w<strong>here</strong>fore t<strong>here</strong> was much apprehension of civil war in England,<br />

because the earl, having four other earldoms besides that of<br />

Lincoln, threatened to return immediately with one hundred<br />

knights whom he had brought with him (without taking account<br />

of foot-soldiers besides), and to enter upon the lands of the said<br />

earldom w<strong>here</strong>of he had offered homage to the king, who had<br />

declined to receive it. But by God's influence the king followed<br />

wiser counsel, crossed the water of Tweed, and came to the earl<br />

at Haggerston, about four miles from Berwick, w<strong>here</strong> they<br />

saluted each other amicably and exchanged frequent<br />

kisses.<br />

Although hitherto they had been much at discord because of<br />

Piers de Gaveston, yet [that person] came thither with the king ;<br />

1<br />

24th February, 1310-11.<br />

2<br />

Considering the effusive eulogy or scathing criticism passed by the chronicler<br />

upon other deceased dignitaries of the Church, it is strange that he should have<br />

nothing to say about the character of <strong>this</strong> most redoubtable prelate.<br />

8 nth April.<br />

4<br />

30th May.

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