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for 15 years to the detriment of the King” (if he had kept the 
hundred in hand) and from the Hundred Roll of two years before 
we learn that the bailiffs of City and King were equally afraid to 
attempt to levy the fines. It must have created a flutter among 
the civic fathers of that day, and we can scarcely wonder that 
Richard is said to have been quietly poisoned (with the Earl of 
Devon) at the table of Peter of Savoy. His importance and 
still greater vacillation are matters of history. 
“O comes Glovernie, Comple quod cepisti ; 
Nisi Claudas congrue, multos decepisti.” 
From his first wife Margaret, daughter of Herbert de Burgh 
came the seven lozenges, vair, in the Neville shield. 
His son Gilbert the red-—— 
Prudens in consiliis, strenuus in armis, 
et audacissimus in defensione sui juris. 
married first Henry ILI.’s niece, Alice of Angouléme, and secondly, 
Joan (30 Ap., 1290) daughter of Edward I. who is commemorated 
in the three lions passant. His special coat of arms is said to 
have been Or an Eagle displayed vest membered and beaked 
gules. 
His son Gilbert, baptised by a Bishop of Bath and Wells 1291, 
married Matilda, daughter of John de Burgh, whose arms are Or a 
Cross Gules, Gilbert whose three Chevrons Gules are known to 
everyone, was a true hero of romance. Twice regent of England, he 
led the fatal charge of English cavalry at Bannockburn, and died at 
the age of 23 in those fatal pits where one of his feudatories from 
Langridge was taken prisoner. Gilbert was buried at Tewkesbury 
and the inverted torch beside him marks the finished line. 
Eleanor, the eldest sister of Gilbert, married Hugh le Despenser 
a fret or over all a Bendlet sab: and after his execution she 
married William la Zouch, the very man who surprised and 
captured her husband at Llantrissant. 
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