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But a good lady obtained his respite, and after the conquest of the place was released. The castle then, once the residence of Piers Gaveston, of Henry III, and of John of Gaunt, was dismantled and destroyed. During the reign of Henry III great progress was made in the improvement and development of castle-building.
These were a younger and elder Hugh Le Despenser, son and grandson of the Justiciar who had fallen beside Earl Simon at Evesham. Greedy and ambitious as they may have been, they were able men, and their policy was of a higher stamp than the wilful defiance of Gaveston.
A few days after the events which we have just related, the Duke of Gaveston and Lady Laura left Beaufort House for the Earl's seat in Hampshire, which Lord Aylesbury had pointed out as the best suited to the occasion.
Edward made a last desperate attempt to save Gaveston. He would agree to all the other ordinances, if he were still allowed to keep his brother Peter in England and in possession of the earldom of Cornwall. But the estates refused to yield the root of the whole matter. Threatened with the prospect of a new battle of Lewes, if he remained obdurate, Edward bowed to his destiny.
I came furnished with authority, and accompanied by a Messenger of State, to deliver Lady Laura Gaveston, who, I understand, is at this very moment in this house." "That is most strange," said the Lady Helen "I wrote to to him who who whom you saw me with; in short, to tell him that they had brought the poor girl here, never thinking that you, my boy "
But the weakness of the king and the rashness of the favourite soon caused murmurs to arise. Early in 1308 Edward crossed over to France, leaving Gaveston as regent, and was married on January 25, at Boulogne, to Philip the Fair's daughter Isabella, a child of twelve, to whom he had been plighted since 1298.
His next was The Shepherd's Garland , afterwards reprinted as Eclogues. Three historical poems, Gaveston , Matilda , and Robert, Duke of Normandie followed, and he then appears to have collaborated with Dekker, Webster, and others in dramatic work. The rushing verse is full of vigour and gusto.
Attended by a numerous and splendid household, Gaveston crossed over to Ireland and took up the government of that country, where his energy and liberality won him considerable popularity. Edward was inconsolable at the loss of his friend. For the first time in his reign he threw himself into politics with interest, and intrigued with rare perseverance to bring about his recall.
But we must return to "the Red Earl," the central figure in our own annals during this half century. The new King, Edward II., compelled by his English barons to banish his minion, Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, had created him his lieutenant of Ireland, endowed him with a grant of the royalties of the whole island, to the prejudice of the Earl and other noblemen.
"And will you dare to tell me, earl," asked his interrogator, "that within this quarter of an hour he has not been in this tower? nay, in this very room? The guards in your antechamber have told me that he was; and can Lord Carrick stoop to utter a falsehood to screen an wandering beggar?" While he was speaking, Bruce stood eying him with increasing scorn. Gaveston paused.
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