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quae vulgariter Angliam nuncupatur,* divisam ; viz., a mari Sabri- 

 no sicut flumen Sabrinum ducit de mari, descendendo usque ad bo- 

 rialem portam civitatis Wigorniae, et a porta ilia directe usque ad 

 arbores fraxineas in lingua Carabriensi sive Wallensi Onnene Mar- 

 gion vulgariter nuncupatas, quiie in alta via de Bridgenorth ad Kyn- 

 var ducente crescunt, deinde directe per altam viam,qu3e vetus sive 

 antiqua via vulgariter nuncupatur, usque ad caput sive ortura flu- 

 minis de Trent, deinde directe usque ad caput sive ad ortum flu- 

 minis Meuse vulgariter nuncupati, deinde sicut illud flumen ad 

 mare ducit descendendo infra fines, liraites et bundas, suprascriptas. 

 Et prtefatus Comes Nortbumbriae habeat sibi et haeredibus suis co- 

 mitatus infra scriptas, viz., Northumbr., Westmorland, Lancast., 

 Ebor , Lincolniara, Notyngam, Derb., Stafford, Leycestr., North- 

 ampton, Warwic, et Norffblch. Et dominus Edmundus habeat 

 totura residuum tocius Angliae integre sibi et successoribus suis.t 

 Item quod pugna, riota, seu discordia inter duos dominorum ipso- 

 rum quod absit, oriatur, tunc tertius ipsorura dominorum, convocato 

 ad se bono et fideli consilio, discordiam, riotam, seu pugnam hujus- 

 modi debite reformabit ; cujus laudo sive sententise discordante hu- 

 jusmodi obedire tenebuntur. Fideles quoque erunt ad defenden- 

 dum regnum contra omnes homines, salvo juramento ex parte prse- 

 fati Domini Owini illustrissirao principi Domino Karolo Dei gratia 

 Francorum regi,:j: in ligea et confederatione inter ipsos initis et fac- 

 tis praestito. Et ut praedicta omnia et singula bene et fideliter ob- 

 serventur, ipsi Domini Owinus, Comes et Edmundus ad sacrum 

 corpus dominicum quod perse verant jam contemplans et ad sancta 

 Dei Evangelia per cosdem corporaliter tacta jurarunt praemissa, 

 omnia et singula, sicut posse eorum, inviolabiliter observare, et 

 sigilla sua alternatim prsesentibus in testimonium apponi fecerunt.*' 

 This was signed at the house of the Archdeacon of Bangor. 

 Thus the Severn, the Trent, and the Mersey, were to comprise 

 Owain's territory ; while the Percies were to have, not only all that 

 was north of Trent, but Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwick- 

 shire, and even Norfolk. Sir Edmund Mortimer was to get the 

 remainder ; and we may be amused at the superstition of the age, 

 that these great personages conceived themselves to be the parties 



• From this and subsequent passages, as well as from Owain being first 

 mentioned, the treaty seems to have been drawn up by one of his retinue. 



•f The claim of the young Earl of March seems thus to have been entire- 

 ly overlooked. It could not be otherwise, as he was entitled to the whole ; 

 but Owain perceived the selfishness of the uncle. 



± Charles VI. 



