Nam sup'bit vane

Rex Anglor' nobilis Vocatus Edwardus
Ferox est et stabilis Tanq'm leopardus
Fortis et non debilis Velox et non tardus[135]
Senciet id flebilis Pomposus Picardus.

[Footnote 135: A similar description of Edward the First, which was
suggested by his arms, occurs in the "Roll of Carlaverock," a poem
composed in the year 1300.

"En sa baniere trois luparte
De or fin estoint mis en rouge
Courant felloun fier et harouge
Par tel signifiance mis
Ke ausi est vers ses enemis
Le Rois fiers felouns et hastans
Car sa morsure n'est tastans
Nuls ki ne en soit envenimez."]

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P. 37. Anno 24 Edward I, 1296. "Also in this yere S^{r}. Thomas
Turbevyle for treson was drawen and hanged."

Of the conduct which caused Sir Thomas Turbeville's execution, the
following fragment of a curious contemporary poem in the Cottonian MS.
_Caligula_ A. xviij, presents perhaps the most accurate information
which is extant. It immediately precedes, and is written in the same
hand as, the only _contemporary_ copy of the Roll of Carlaverock which
is known to exist, and hence it is highly probable that it was
composed by the same person. Under any circumstances, however, it
cannot fail to be deemed to possess sufficient interest to render it a
valuable illustration to the passage in the text.

Seignurs e dames estutez
De un fort tretur orrez
Ke aveit pur veu une treson
Thomas Turbelvile ot a non
A Charlys aveit p'mis
E jure par seint Denys
Ke il li freit tute Englet'e
Par quentise e treson conquere
E Charles li premist grant don
Teres e bon garison
Li treitre a Charlis dit
Ke il aparillast sanz respit
De bone nefs grande navie
E de gent forte co'paignie
E il le freit par tens garner
Ou il dussent ariver
En Engleter sodeinement
Li traiture sanz targement en Englet'e tot se mit
Au rei sire Edewars vint e dist
Ke si apres li vodera fere
Tutes ses choses deust co'quer
Ki sire Charlis li aveit
A force e a tort tollet
Issi ke' li losengur de ambe part fu t'tur
Sire Edeward nentendi mie
Del treitre sa tricherie
Ke il aveit issi purveu
A grant honur le ad receu
E en sa curt fut grant mestre
Q'nt ot espie tut son estre
E le conseil de Engleter
Li treitre feseit un bref fere
A sire Charlis priveme't
On ariver devisse't sa gent
En Engletere e li pais prendre
A sire Edeward fu f