14 HISTORICAL MEMORANDA OF 



Car il et li devant nomes For he and the before-named 



Au fils le roy furent comes Were appointed the king's son 



De son frein guiour et gardein. To conduct and to guard. 



At this time he must have been about forty years of age, and the 

 poem confirms Dugdale's statement that he was then in the retinue 

 of the Prince of Wales. It is recorded, in the wardrobe accounts, 

 that he received his winter's fee of £6. 13s. 4d. in the same year, 

 and they give the following particulars : — 



Domino Rogero de Mortuo Mari, baneretto pro vadiis suis, duo- 

 rum militum et xiiii scutiferorum suorum xxviii die Julii, quo die 

 equi sui fuerunt appreciati, usque xxix diem Augusti, utroque com- 

 putato per xxxiii dies, xxxvi.i^i. vi.s. Eidem pro expensis oris sui 

 et unius militis sui, a ix die Julii, quo die venit ad curiam apud 

 Karlaverok, usque xxviii diem ejusdem mensis, quo die equi sui 

 fuerunt appreciati, primo die computato et non ultimo per xix dies, 

 per quos fuit in cur et extra rotulum hospicii, praecipienti per diem 

 vj.s. per statutum factum apud Sanctum Albanum de hospicio £v. 

 xiv.s. per compotum factum cum eodem apud Lincoln' xx die Feb' 

 anno xxix. Summa xlii.£i.* 



In the baron's letter to the pope, dated Lincoln, 29th of Febru- 

 ary, 1301, Roger Mortimer is styled lord of Penketlyn, one of the 

 manors which he held of Humphrey de Boun, Earl of Hereford, 

 which, probably, is Pengethly, in that county. He was summoned 

 to the Scottish wars in 1301 and 1302, arid was present in the par- 

 liament held at Carlisle, in January, 1304 ; on the 5th of April in 

 which year, he was ordered to attend at Westminster, to determine 

 upon the aid to be granted to king Edward, on knighting his eldest 

 son.t 



Soon after this time, Mortimer swerved from the fidelity which 

 had hitherto marked his conduct, as, in the thirty-fifth, that is, 

 the last year of the reign of Edward I., he and some other peers 

 were accused of having quitted the king's service in Scotland, and 

 gone beyond the sea ; in consequence of which, orders were issued 

 to the escheator of the crown on each side of the Trent, dated 15th 

 of November, 1306, directing them to seize their lands and chattels. 



• These accounts notice Hugh de Mortymer, banneret of Richai-d's castle, 

 and Dominus Willielmus de Mortymer, brother of Robert. The arms of 

 Hugh de Mortymer were gules two bars vaire. 



t Ashmole, History of the Order of the Gorier, says that Roger de Morti- 

 mer and Roger his son (probably Roger his nephew), were knighted in the 

 thirty-fourth of Edward I. 



