Note 1925 — Chapter VIII · THE LATER YEARS OF RICHARD. 1194–1199.

The English writers—Rog. Howden and R. Coggeshall—try to shift the blame of their king’s death as much as possible upon the foreign surgeon. Will. Armor. (as above) attributes it wholly to Richard’s disregard of the doctor’s orders; and even R. Coggeshall (Stevenson, p. 96) is obliged to add at last “rege ... præcepta medicorum non curante.” Rog. Wendover. (Coxe), vol. iii. p. 135, says the arrow was poisoned, but this seems to be only an inference from the result.