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In 1300, on the death of the king's childless cousin, Earl Edmund, the wealthy earldom of Cornwall escheated to the crown. To Edward's contemporaries the acquisition of the earldoms of Norfolk and Cornwall seemed worthy to be put alongside the conquests of Wales and Scotland. See John of London, Commendatio lamentabilis in Chron. of Edw. I. and Edw. II., ii., 8-9.
When all thus seemed favourable, a sudden storm burst in Scotland which plunged the old king into renewed troubles. De recuperatione terre sancte, ed. C.V. Langlois . John of London, Commendatio lamentabilis, pp. 5-6. In 1304 Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, became by his father's death the head of his house.
The second contains: JOHN OF LONDON'S Commendatio Lamentabilis in Transitu magni Regis Edwardi quarti, a funeral eulogy containing the most elaborate contemporary analysis of Edward's character. The CANON OF BRIDLINGTON'S Gesta Edwardi de Carnarvon, with a continuation down to the death of Edward III., of little value after 1339.
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