44 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



Thus much of the principal buildings in Newcajlle, I malt 

 now take notice of the moft remarkable State-tranfaclions and 

 Occurrences in it. 



John Ballol did homage for his crown of Scotland to K. Edward I, 

 in the great hall of his palace on the Side in this town, above- 

 mentioned, December 26, 1292, with great folemnity; and by 

 the advice of the parliament at Wejlminjler, K. Edward fixed the 

 fees, for want of a precedent, at 20 /. fterling, for his vaflalage,, 

 double the fum paid by an earl on the like account (d). 



K. Edward II, for the prefervation of his minion, Pierce Gave- 

 Jloa, retired with him to this town, 1310, from which, on the 

 approach of the incenfed Barons, under the Earl of Lancafte>\ 

 called Contrariants and Or -darners t they took (hipping at Tynemouth 

 for Scarbrough, where Gave/Ion furrendered himfelf to Lord Percy 

 (ej, and not to the Earl of Pembroke^ as affirmed in many of our 

 hiftories. 



A peace was concluded at Newcajlle, 1323, about Afcenfion- 

 day, by the commiflioners of K. Edward II, and of Robert Bruce, 

 JCing of Scotland, for 13 years ; the names of the EngliJ}} commif- 

 fioners, Adomar Earl .of Pembroke, and Hugh de Spenfer, junr. lord 

 high chamberlain, &c. of the Scots,, the Bifhop of St. Andrews, 

 the Earl of Murrey, 8cc. (f). 



(d) Apud Novum Cqflrum fuper Tynam, in aula palatii ipfius domini regis infra caftrum, 

 &c. Rym, Faed. vol. ii. p. 593. p. 6co. Acta Regia, vol. i. 8vo. p. 72, 73. 



(e) Rym. Faed. vol. iii. p. 334. Ada Regia, vol. i. 8vo. p. 110, &c. Brady's Ap- 

 pend, to his Hiftory of England. 



(f) Hal, Chron. vol. ii. p. 334. 



The 



