could have hoped for; at the very first charge the monarch's horse was killed under him, he himself cast to the ground, and taken prisoner, with almost every one of his followers. Many of those even who could have fled surrendered spontaneously, when they saw the King a prisoner. Several other nobles also suffered themselves to be taken, in order to share the captivity of their king; and the small body of English knights, rejoicing in their success, retired unmolested to Richmond, in Yorkshire, carrying their captives with them; while the Scotch army, struck with panic, fled into Scotland, and all the marauding parties which had been scattered over the northern counties followed the same course, and turned their arms to the destruction of each other.*

The joy of the King of England, and the country, was immense. The bells throughout the whole kingdom were rung in triumph; and the people of London, though they had not been amongst the sufferers, were amongst the first in celebrating a victory which delivered the land from its inveterate foes. In the meanwhile, an army had

* It would seem that the barbarities committed by some of the Scottish parties, after their return to their own country, equalled those which they had perpetrated in England. See Hoveden and William of Newbury. The chronicle of Mailros, however, though it mentions the flight of David, the brother of the Scottish King, from Leicester, and his return to Scotland, does not notice these atrocities.

been collected in the neighbourhood of the capital; and taking fortune at the flood, Henry immediately marched to Huntingdon, the garrison of which place surrendered on the 21st of July, receiving a promise of mercy. Turning from Huntingdonshire towards Suffolk, Henry advanced to besiege the Earl of Norfolk at Framlingham, while the King of Scotland's brother, who had been received into the castle of Leicester, effected his retreat into his own land. The English monarch might now have had to contend with a more dangerous opponent than he had hitherto met with; for large detachments of Flemings had already been sent over to the support of the Earl, and a few hours' sail would have brought the Count of Flanders, according to his oath, to aid the English partisans of the younger Henry with the immense army he had collected. But the intelligence of the King himself having sailed for England, was enough to discourage the attempt of the Count;* and almost at the same time with the news of Henry's arrival, came the tidings that the King of Scotland was taken, and his army dispersed.

Giving up all hope of seeing England conquered by his son-in-law, Louis the Seventh, as soon as this information reached him, called the younger Henry and the Count of Flanders to assist in the

*If the account of Diceto be correct, the young King Henry and the Count of Flanders broke up their camp on the very day

the King of Scotland was taken.

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most important siege which he had ever undertaken against the English monarch. Thus, before the fall of Huntingdon castle, the Count and the English Prince had retired from the coast; and on the day following the capture of that fortress, they were both in arms before the city of Rouen. Hugh Bigot might very well receive intelligence therefore, that he was abandoned by his allies, previous to the approach of Henry to Framlingham. number of the Flemings that were with him, was not sufficient to take the field against the King of England; and was yet so great as to be burdensome, rather than useful, while shut up in the castles of Framlingham and Bungay. Under these circumstances, the Earl determined to capitulate; and consequently visiting the royal camp, he treated personally with the King, who, after considerable discussion regarding the fate of the Flemings, granted him much more favourable terms than he had any right to expect. On surrendering his two castles, paying a fine of a thousand marks of silver, and giving hostages for his future good conduct, he received the King's pardon; and the foreign troops in his service were suffered to depart in peace, upon taking an oath not to fight against Henry any more during the continuance of the war.

As soon as Norfolk and Suffolk were quieted, Henry marched to Northampton, and took up his abode in the castle. He had been before joined

by his natural son, Geoffrey Bishop-elect of Lincoln, who came more as a warrior than a prelate, and who shortly after obtained permission to abandon a profession which he had never loved, and follow that of arms, to which his chivalrous disposition led him. At Northampton the King was visited by many other friends, and there also all the rebels who had not yet submitted came in and made their peace. Roger de Mowbray, who had fled at the time of the capture of the King of Scotland, first sent messengers offering to surrender his castle of Thirsk, and subsequently presented himself to receive the King's pardon. The officers of the Earl of Leicester delivered up to the Sovereign the three fortresses of Leicester, Mount Sorel and Groby; the Earl of Derby gave up Tutbury and Duffield, and universal submission showed that the rebels had abandoned all hope of success. The Bishop of Durham, who was strongly suspected of having favoured the insurgents, came to justify himself; and Henry was not unwilling to receive his apologies, but exacted from him the castles of Durham, Norham, and Alverton, which the prelate had garrisoned with foreign troops on very suspicious pretences. The Earls of Clare and Gloucester subsequently met the King, as he journeyed towards Portsmouth with the purpose of embarking for France, and gave him every assurance of their loyalty, which had been strongly doubted.

Henry stayed in England no longer than was

absolutely necessary to reduce the whole land to obedience; and having seen that great object accomplished with a rapidity almost inconceivable, he hastened to the aid of his gallant subjects in the good town of Rouen, who were by this time closely pressed by the enemy. The monarch embarked at Portsmouth on the 7th of August, taking with him, still in strict bonds, the King of Scotland, and the Earls of Chester and Leicester. Queen Eleanor and the Princess Margaret, his son's wife, were left behind in England, as a more secure place of abode, now that not the most remote chance seemed to exist of any renewal of the rebellion in this country. The King was accompanied by the whole body of Brabançois which he had brought with him, and several bands of Welsh soldiers, which had been sent to his aid by Owen, Prince of North Wales. The force which he thus carried with him was very considerable; but the fame of his exploits in England was in itself a host. In little more than three weeks, he had reduced to submission a land which previous to his arrival had been in arms against his authority from one end to the other; nor was the rapidity of this success less wonderful than the means by which it was accomplished,- -means which were so totally inadequate to the object, and apparently so entirely independent of his own efforts, that the hand of Heaven working in his favour appeared to be manifest, and the superstition of the times attributed to the