5 j)4 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



fret, and tried in form, in the king's prcfence, for treafon (rj. 

 He was beheaded on St. Thomas's hill, on the north-eaft fide of 

 that town, 25 March, 1322 ; and was buried in the priory-church 

 on the right hand of the high altar. The king remitted, on ac- 

 count of his being a near relation, grand foil to K. Henry III, the 

 infamous circumilances of hanging and quartering ; the firft: 

 example of which in England was in the perfon of the unfortu- 

 nate Wcljl) Prince David, the laft of his family, and of the firft 

 antiquity in Europe, 10 K. Edivard I, 1282. He was canonized in 

 the reign of K. Richard II, and his pidure hung up in St. Paul's 

 church (s) ; cifcer which time the hill of his execution was called 

 St. Thtmas's hill. He forfeited five earldoms, viz. Lancajler, Lin- 

 oln,Sc.}'vb:.ry, Leicejler -and. Derby. He was the greateft fubject in the 

 realm, and the mightier! Peer in Chriftendom (t). His attainder 

 was taken off, and all his fignories, honours, and lands, reftorcd 

 in the next reign to his brother, Henry Earl of Lancajler, on his pe- 

 tition to the parliament. He was one of the four Lords appoint- 

 ed by the twelve guardians of the kingdom to take care, of K. 

 Edivard 111, in his minority ; who in the 251!! year of his reign, 

 .1351, created him Duke of Lancajler, by his fpecial charter. He 

 was the fecond in the kingdom advanced to that high dignity ; 

 Prince Edivard being the firft, whofe brother, John, marrying the 

 daughter and heirefs of the Duke of Lancajler, fucceeded both to 

 his fortune and title ; to the latter by creation. 



Duke Henry of Lancajler on his inveftiture by the fword, had 

 licence to hold a court of chancery within his dutchy, to fend 



(r) Rym. Feed. Angl. torn. iii. p. 936. 

 Tyrrel's Hift. of Ergland. 



(s) Afla Ri-gla, vol. i. 8vo. p. 113. 

 (t) Ho!. Chron. vol. ii. p. 331. 



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