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106 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
If so, they were certainly a distinguished generation, the head of the
house, perhaps, more for evil deeds than good,
for we are told that he
with his wife's sister
was a man of dreadful immorality, and had an intrigue
Alyna, for which he was admonished by the Archbishop of York, and
absolved " on condition that he pays one hundred marks to the fabric
"of York Minster."*
Two years later he was in more serious trouble with the King, for
opening a cart belonging to the prioress of Walton, and carrying off seven
nuns he found therein. Eventually he was sentenced for his excesses to
a severe penance, viz., that every Friday in Lent, the Ember days, and
Advent, for seven years, he is to fast on bread and small beer, and on
Good Friday and the vigil of the Festival of All Saints to use only bread
and water. He is to make a pilgrimage to the shrines of St. William of
York, St. Thomas of Hereford, the Blessed Mary at Southwell, St. John of
Beverley, and St. Wilfrid of Ripon, and is to be " fustigated seven times
" before a procession in the church of York, in sola basna capucio deposito,"
i.e. well stripped.f He seems, however, in spite of his peccadilloes, to have
been exemplary in matters political and social, a firm supporter of the
Earl of Lancaster. Probably for that reason he was excused from attending
the Parliament of 1315, together with Walter Vavasour, Walter de Fauconberge,
and others ;
and to that exemption has been attributed the result of
Bannockburn and the regal imbecility. In 1324 he was ordered for service
in Germany, and died 1333 (Archceologm, xxxi. 224).
Edmund de Mauley behaved so valiantly in the wars of Edward I.
that Edward II. made him " Seneschallus hospitii,"
i.e. steward of the
household. In the 32nd year of the previous reign he had obtained a
grant of the manor of Seton in Whitby-strand and in the fifth year of
;
Edward II. he was appointed governor of Bridgnorth, and also of the
castle town and bar town of Bristol. Two years after, he had conferred
on him for life the governorship of Cockermouth Castle, and in the next
year " he was slain at the battle of Bannockburn," says Dugdale. Vincent
uses the expression " submersus," J which probably means that he and his
horse fell
into one of the pits with which the Bruce had so craftily fortified
his lines. Robert de Mauley seems also to have been under-sheriff of
Roxburgh, or as he is described in "the further orders" already alluded
to, "Viscount de Rokesburgh."
We are also told concerning Peter, that when Sir Edmund de
Mortimer, of Wigmore, was ordered to march against Rhys ap Meredyth
in South Wales, this Peter was retained to serve with him, and provide
ten horses "cooperti," i.e.
completely armed in mail under their housings.
They were to be one black with a white foot, valued at 60 marks, or
* Fasti Ebor (Canon Raine), p. 383. t \Vheater. Archaologia xxxi., J p. 245, p. 243.