A History of England Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... Norwegian interest, he contrived to bring about a meeting at Salisbury between commissioners on the part of Eric, of the Scotch government, and of himself, at which it was agreed that the young Queen should be received in Scotland free of matrimonial engagements, but pledged not to marry except by the advice of Edward and with the consent of her father. Almost immediately after this, the plan of the marriage was made public, and was at once willingly accepted by the Scotch, who were anxious to be saved from a civil war, but whc, while accepting it, Accepted vMll took care, at a parliament held at Brigham in 1290, to reetrictiom guard with scrupulous care the independence of the 1M0' kingdom. It was not exactly thus that Edward understood the treaty. He at once despatched Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, to act in unison with the guardians of Scotland, as Lieutenant of Queen Margaret and her husband, at the same time demanding possession of the royal castles, ostensibly for the purpose of preserving the peace of the kingdom. The governors of the castles declined to give them up, but '"Homagium suum nobis debitum nobis absque conditione aliqua obtulit et detendit."--Rymer. seven great Earls wrote to Edward, as though to a superior, beginvitation to ging him to curb the power of the regency, while, on the fedtt"the other hand, a member of the regency, the Bishop of succession. St. Andrews, also wrote, begging Edward to approach the border to assist in keeping order, and to appoint a king if the rumour which had been spread of the death of the Maid of Norway should Death of the prove true. The report was true, Margaret had died on Mai4-her journey from Norway in the Orkney islands; and acting on these two letters, which he construed as an invitat...