Note 290 — THE MINORITY OF HENRY III CHAPTER I THE WAR WITH LOUIS 1216–1217 (continued 2)

Hist. G. le Mar., ll. 17434–55, and Hist. Ducs, p. 202; cf. R. Wend., vol. iv. pp. 29, 30. This last says it was Richard the king’s son who answered the inveterate turncoat’s offers of ransom and service by exclaiming “Nunquam de caetero falsis tuis promissionibus quenquam in hoc saeculo seduces, proditor nequissime,” drawing his sword and striking off his head. The French account seems more probable, as I think we may safely identify the “Stephen Trabe” (or “Crave”) of the Hist. Ducs with the poet’s “Stephen of Winchelsea.”