This, and nothing more, is the plain and natural meaning of the words which Falkes places in the mouth of the Primate. In themselves they afford no ground for the interpretation which he evidently wished his readers to put upon them. Some of the barons were still, it seems, leniently disposed towards Falkes; many of them may have been reluctant to send brave soldiers to the gallows; if so, the execution may have been carried out somewhat as Falkes states. His account of the rescue of “some who are still”--_i.e._, some nine months later--“detained in custody” is easily reconciled with the story told by Matthew Paris and the Dunstable annalist of the three who were given to the Templars. The touch about the four prelates gloating over the ghastly scene may be set down to a fevered imagination. INDEX “Aid,” 82; from clergy, 264; for Holy Land, 194 Alexander, King of Scots, 77; his seizure of Carlisle, 87; homage, _ib._; negotiations with Pandulf, 126; treaty with Henry, 140; meeting with Henry, 145; marriage, 171 Angoulême, county of, 132 Aquitaine, its relations with the English Crown, 130–132; complaints of the towns, 138, 142, 143; projects about seneschalship, 143, 144; seneschals of, _see_ Bordeaux, Mauléon, Neville, Pons, Ulecote, Vivonne. _See also_ Gascony, Poitou Arras, Hugh, constable of, 20, 31, 44 Arundel, Earl of, 49 Athée, family of, 74–75 Aubigné, Philip of, at Henry’s coronation, 5; at council of Bristol, 9; commands English fleet, 21; takes Porchester, 26; his sea-fight with French, 31; at battle of Sandwich, 51, 52, 54; the King’s “master,” 180; envoy to Poitou, 187, 188, 252, 255; to France, 197 Aubigny, William of, 25, 33 Aumale, William, Count of, 9, 33; rebels, 121–123, 154, 155, 163–167; proposed as seneschal of Poitou, 143, 156; at siege of Bedford, 238 Baliol, Hugh de, 17, footnote 490 Barres, William des, 52 Basset, Alan, 6, 9 Basset, Thomas, 33 Bath, Jocelyn, bishop of, 4, 212 Beauchamp, Walter de, 9 Beauchamp, William de, 238, 294–296 Bedford, castle of, 231, 238; its ownership, 293–296; siege of, 232, 239, 242–244; fate of the garrison, 244, 296–299 Berkhamsted, surrendered to Louis, 18 Blanche of Castille, 48, 264, 265 Bloet, William, 43 Bordeaux, 141, 144, 251 Bordeaux, William, archbishop of, 131 Braybroke, Henry de, 29, 44, note 6, 45, 230, 231, 244 Bréauté, Falkes de, _see_ Falkes Bréauté, family of, 225, footnote 1039 Bréauté, William de, footnote 1039, 230–232 Breuse, Reginald de, 89, 90, 173, 196 Brewer, William, 5, 9, 211, 214 Bristol, council at, 9, 10; castle of, 212, 282, 283 Brittany, Duke of, 264