Note 12 — THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRIDGNORTH. PART I.

“However odious Robert had now become; though his turbulent and vindictive character had left him but few friends, the scene which followed must have been affecting to those who could reflect, if such there were, on the instability of human grandeur. On the King’s approach to Shrewsbury, the Earl quitted the town, perhaps for the last time; bearing himself the keys of the gates, he threw himself at the Victor’s feet, acknowledging his treason, and sued for mercy.”—Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, Vol. 1, pp. 58-9.