A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



him to arrange the marriage between himself and Isabella of France. 1 He 

 was one of the nobles who swore on the king's behalf that he would reconfirm 

 the charters on his return from the Scottish war, in which campaign he 

 accompanied the king, and was present at the battle of Falkirk on 22 July. 8 

 The same month he was summoned to the council at York to deliberate on 

 the affairs in Scotland, and in July, 1 300, was present at the siege of Caerlave- 

 rock, where he commanded the first division.' In October he went with 

 Hugh Despenser on a mission to Rome to complain of the injury done by the 

 Scots, and later to arrange the terms of peace between the kings of England 

 and France. 4 In February, 1301, he was appointed governor of Corfe Castle, 6 

 and in March was directed to attend the Prince of Wales on his invasion of 

 Scotland at Midsummer. During September and October he was engaged in 

 the subjection of Galloway, 8 and early in 1302 was appointed one of the 

 envoys to treat for peace with Philip of France, and in connexion with these 

 negotiations was constantly in France until the proclamation of peace at Paris 

 on 20 May, 1 303^ In October he went abroad to take possession of Gascony 

 in the king's name, remaining there for the following year. 8 On 1 6 Sep- 

 tember, 1305, he was one of the commissioners appointed in the Parliament 

 at Westminster to arrange the affairs of Scotland, and in the same Parliament 

 was a receiver and trier of petitions from Gascony. 9 On 1 5 October he was 

 sent on a mission to Lyons with presents to Pope Clement V. 10 When he 

 returned to London on 16 February, 1306, he was publicly received by the 

 mayor. 11 Later in the year he went to Scotland with the Prince of Wales, 

 who was ordered to act by his advice. 12 In July, in this year, contemplating 

 the foundation of a college at Oxford, he obtained licence to alienate in mort- 

 main the advowsons of five churches in cos. Lincoln and Northampton to 

 thirteen scholars to dwell in the proposed house. 13 In January, 1307, he was 

 one of the commissioners appointed to hold a Parliament at Carlisle, 1 * and 

 during the summer accompanied King Edward on his march to Scotland, and 

 was present at his death at Burgh-on-the-Sands on 7 July. 15 Towards the end 

 of the year he was engaged in a mission to France. 16 



Having attended Edward II. into Scotland, he was present at the king's 

 coronation at Westminster on 25 February, 1308, when he carried one of the 

 swords of state. 17 He advised the king in the first council after his coronation 

 to confirm by writ his promise to ratify whatever the nation should deter- 

 mine. 18 The monk of Malmesbury says that Lincoln gave his assent to the 

 creation of Piers Gaveston as earl of Cornwall in August, 1307, and advised 



1 Rymer, Foedera (Rec. Com.), i. 905. 3 Diet. Nat. Siog. xxxi. 374. 



8 Ibid. Nicolas, Caerlavenck, 96. Henri le bon Conte de Nichole ' bore a banner of yellow silk with a 

 purple lion rampant (p. 5). 



* Cat. Pat.R. 1292-1301, 538-43 ; Rishanger (Rolls. Ser.), 195-6, 451. 



5 Cal. Pat. R. 1292-1301, 564. 6 Bain, Cal. of Docs. Scot. ii. 1191, 1224, 1235, 1240. 



7 Rymer, Foedera (Rec. Com.), i. 952-5 ; Cal. Pat. R. 1301-7, 30-128 pass.; Chron. Edw. I. and II. 

 (Rolls Ser.), 1.127-9 5 Hemingburgh (Eng. Hist. Soc.), ii. 230. 



8 Cal. Pat. R. 1301-7, 157, 209. Rolls of Par!. (Rec. Com.), i. 126, 159. 



10 Rymer, Foedera (Rec. Com.), i. 974; Cal. Pat. R. 1301-7, 380. 



11 Chron. Edw. I. and II. (Rolls Ser.), i. 143-4. ls Chron. Lanercost (Bannatyne Club), 204. 

 13 Cal. Pat. R. 1301-7, 455 ; 1307-13, 1 1 ; Rymer, Foedera, i. 990. 



i* Rolls of Par/. (Rec. Com.), i. 188-9; Parl - Writs. (Rec. Com.), i. 183. 



15 T. Walsingham, Hist. Angl. (Roll Ser.), i. 1 16. 



1 Cal. Pat. R. 1307-13, 13, 32. " Parl. Writs (Rec. Com.), ii. 10. 



18 Stubbs, Constit. Hist. edit. 1880, ii. 346. 



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