the oath taken at the coronation in 1220. There is indeed no evidence of such a demand having been made; but it appears somewhat significant that both Peter and Engelard were released, and the charges against them practically withdrawn, as soon as the one prisoner had surrendered Corfe and the other given security for the surrender of Windsor on demand. The marriage of Alexander and Joan was now fixed to take place at York in the middle of June.[798] The court therefore moved northward, by way of Oxford, Northampton, and Nottingham; and in each of these castles, it is said, the garrison was reinforced, or a part of it replaced, by some knights of the King’s own household.[799] On 19th June[800] Alexander and Joan were married by Archbishop Walter.[801] A month later {19 July}, at Westminster, in presence of the bishops of Winchester, London, and Salisbury, Pandulf publicly resigned his legation.[802] Archbishop Stephen, who had been at Rome ever since the previous autumn,[803] was now coming home,[804] bringing with him a grant from the Pope of some important privileges, one of which was that during Stephen’s own lifetime no resident legate should again be appointed in England.[805] In all likelihood Pandulf had asked to be released from the double burden which he had now borne for more than two years.[806] By resigning his legation he also laid down his regency; for it was in virtue of his authority as the Pope’s representative that he had been chosen to succeed the Earl Marshal as regent. Neither the Pope nor the magnates took any steps to provide a successor to Pandulf in this latter office; and thus the first English regency suddenly came to an end. FOOTNOTES: [519] He is called “Magister Pandulfus, subdiaconus et familiaris domini Papae,” until his election to the see of Norwich in July, 1215, and even afterwards. See the preamble to Magna Charta, and _Pat. Rolls Joh._, pp. 154 b, 181. Roger of Wendover (vol. iii. p. 235) calls him cardinal in 1211; but Pandulf never was a cardinal at all. [520] _Ann. Worc._, a. 1215. [521] “Domine, de longinquo venimus huc per petitionem tuam,” is the opening speech of the envoys to John, in _Ann. Burton_ a. 1211, pp. 209–210; and the king at the end of the discussion bursts out--“Intimatum mihi erat per quosdam latores meos, immo latrones, quod vos in curia Romana promoveretis causam meam et quod me diligeretis; modo vero hic percipio quod causam meam non fovetis.... Talia autem mihi nunciaturos non mandavi, sed ut causam meam defenderetis,” _ib._ p. 216. [522] _Ib._ pp. 209–217. [523] See _John Lackland_, pp. 175, 179, 180. [524] R. Wend., vol. iii. p. 256. [525] “Domini Papae nuncius,” June, 1213, _Pat. Rolls Joh._, pp. 99 b, 100 b. [526] _Ib._ p. 107, 1st January, 1214. [527] _Ib._ p. 100. [528] “In nuncium nostrum,” _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 141. [529] _Pat. Rolls Joh._, pp. 129 b, 132. [530] R. Wend., vol. iii. pp. 336–338, 340.