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130 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
anywhere else can I discern any public manifestation of ill-feeling against
him on this account. Such events in those days travelled very slowly, and
possibly the news of the murder never reached this part of the country
until sung by troubadours or wandering minstrels, long after the actors
therein had gone to their account. It is
very possible, also, that in those
rough times the participation in even such a dark and bloody deed could
not have been deemed an unpardonable offence ;
we have seen that even
a Pope could look indulgently upon it. Besides, in this world, " so long
" as thou doest well unto thyself men will speak good of thee."
Peter de Trehous was in high favour with the King. He had
received from him, as a token of his- confidence and regard, the hand
of Isabel, the daughter of Robert de Turnham, heiress of the barony of
Mulgref. Other honours were added, including the custody of the regalia
which he kept in Corfe Castle, where the unfortunate Alinore, sister of the
murdered Arthur, was still immured. And Henry III. continued to him
the favour which his father had always shewn towards him. Moreover,
when his wife Isabel died he gave large benefactions to the monks of
the Abbey of Meaux, in Holdernesse, where her body was buried. So
the circumstances of his advancement, if known, would not be very
unfavourably criticised. And we can appreciate the appropriate recognition
of his "fount of honour" adopted for his armorial bearings one
of royal sleeves resting upon the most delicate and honourable of furs.
Well, at any rate he remained faithful to his master, for, as far as I
can discover, he never failed him, but, as Dugdale says, "stood firm to
" him on all occasions, though many of his barons reverted from him, and
"the Pope
excommunicated him."
HASTINGS.
There is another sleeve in the first west -window of the Clerestory of
the nave, but this is black (sable) on a white (argent) field.* This is the
arms of Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. The family of Hastings originally
carried the red sleeve also, upon a gold ground, and perhaps, therefore,
received it at the same time though under different circumstances to Peter
de Trehous. Henry, third Earl of Huntingdon, was Lord President of the
North during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and this particular shield
of "the Manor House"
may be his arms. He built a considerable portion
here, where he probably died.
You will not find his arms there, but you will find the bear and
ragged staff, embossed on the cornice of the rooms, which was the badge
of the Earls of Warwick, or owners of Warwick Castle, and which he
* See illustration.