4*a ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



King of Scotland; Euftacc de Vcfcy, Baron of Aln-wick, marry- 

 ing another daughter. His fon and fuccefibr fq), Robert de 

 Ros, and John de Baliol, were guardians of the new married pair, 

 Alexander, King of Scotland, and Margaret, eldefl daughter of K. 

 Henry III, 1251. For their undue behaviour towards their royal 

 charge in denying them focial intercourfe, they were punifhed, 

 on the information of a phyfician fent from the Engll/h court. 

 Robert de Ros had his lands feifed for the King's ufe. John dQ Ba- 

 liol came off by a compliment of money. K. Henry and his Queen 

 took a journey to Edinburgh^ to fee them in pofleflion of all their 

 .withes (r). 



William de Ros, fucceflbr to Robert fs) t on the death of Alexander, 

 King of Scot/and, was a competitor for his crown, with William de 

 Vefcy, Baron of Aluwick, Florence Earl of Holland, Patric de Dunbar, 

 Robert de Pinkeny, Nicholas de Sauls, Patric Golightly, Robert Bruce, 

 and John Baliol, 20 K. Edward I, 1292 ft). He was one of the 

 three barons of Northumberland in the famous lift of Briti/f) Lords 

 who made that noble fland againft the papal ufurpation, in claim- 

 ing the kingdom of Scotland & a fief to the fee of Rome, 29 K, 



(q) Roberta* de Ron tenet baroniam de Jfarke in capite de domino rege per fervic. duor. 

 feod, niilit. ct omnes anteceflbres fui tenuerunt per cund. fervic. port tcmpus domini regij 

 ,primi Hwrici, qu't cot feoffavit. Et dcfcodo illo nulla ct alienatio, &c. Tcfta de Nm>jll, 



(r) Hoi. Chron. vol. ii. p. 2JI, & p. 283, 



(i) WtlMmui dc Raft tenet in capite dc domino regc Work, Lcrcmouth, Myndrom, Carham, 

 Preftfcn, Moncylawes, Downham, Paufton, Shotton, Kitham, Holthill, Ncuton t ct alteram 

 Keuton, Langton, Lilburn, Udert^n, Weperdon, Rofdon, Shawdon, Titlingten, Bolton, 

 Abberwyke, /Butlefton inferior, grangium de Sturton, et medictatcm de Glanton, per duo 

 jfeods et dimid, feodi de veteri feofTamento, Efcaet. de anno i Ed, I, 



(f) Rym, Fad. Angl. torn, ii. 

 Sec Btrwlei, 



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