England under the Angevin Kings, Volume IINorgate, Kate
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Norgate, Kate
Anjou, House of; England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485; Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216
[803] _Gesta Hen._ as above, p. 66. Cf. Rog. Howden as above;
Will. Newb., l. ii. c. 32 (as above, pp. 182, 183), and Jordan
Fantosme, vv. 1671–1729 (Michel, pp. 76–78). On the Scottish
misdoings see also R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 376; Gerv.
Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 247; and _Gesta Hen._ as above, p.
64; this latter writer can find no better way of describing
them than by copying Henry of Huntingdon’s account of the
Scottish invaders of 1138 (Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 6, Arnold,
p. 261).
[804] Will. Newb., l. ii. c. 33 (Howlett, vol. i. pp. 183–185).
Jordan Fantosme, vv. 1731–1839 (Michel, pp. 78–84). Cf. _Gesta
Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 67; Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii.
p. 63; and Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 249.
[805] Jordan Fantosme, vv. 1841–1849 (Michel, p. 84). Will.
Newb. as above (p. 185). On Adam de Port (whose presence on
this occasion is mentioned by Jordan only) see _Gesta Hen._
as above, p. 35 and note 2, and Stapleton, _Magn. Rot. Sacc.
Norm._ (Soc. Antiq.), vol. i., _Observ._, p. clxi.
[806] Will. Newb. as above.
The capture of William the Lion almost put an end to the rebellion.
A body of Flemings summoned by Bishop Hugh of Durham landed the same
day at Hartlepool; but at the tidings of the Scottish disaster, Hugh
thought it safest to pay them their forty days’ wages and send them
home again at once.[807] On the same day, too, the young king, weary
of waiting for a wind at Gravelines, left the count of Flanders there
alone and proceeded to Wissant with a body of troops whom he succeeded
in despatching from thence into England, under the command of Ralf of
La Haye, to the assistance of Hugh Bigod.[808] In London, meanwhile,
the news brought by Ralf de Glanville’s courier raised to the highest
pitch the spirits both of Henry and of his troops. On that very day he
set out for Huntingdon,[809] whose titular earl had already fled back
to Scotland;[810] at Huntingdon Geoffrey of Lincoln came to meet him
with a force of seven hundred knights;[811] and three days later the
garrison surrendered at discretion.[812] The king then marched to S.
Edmund’s; here he divided his host, sending half against Hugh Bigod’s
castle of Bungay, while he himself led the other half to Framlingham,
where Hugh was entrenched with five hundred knights and his Flemish
men-at-arms. The number of these, however, had dwindled greatly; when
the royal host encamped on July 24 at Sileham, close to Framlingham,
Hugh felt himself unable to cope with it; and next morning he
surrendered.[813] By the end of the month the whole struggle was over.
One by one the king’s foes came to his feet as he held his court at
Northampton. The king of Scots was brought, with his feet tied together
under his horse’s body, from his prison[814] at Richmond.[815] On the
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