Note 1047 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227

Close Rolls, vol. ii. pp. 72 b, 73. These three writs are entered on the back of membrane 17 of the Close Roll 9 Hen. III (October, 1224–October, 1225), and thus appear to belong to April–May, 1225; but this cannot be their true date; Falkes was outlawed and out of England long before April, 1225. The scribe has put them on a wrong roll. With the chronological data for the year 1224 they fit in perfectly. Falkes says he was accused to the King “triduo post pacem,” i.e., three days after peace was made in London between Hubert and his opponents (cf. above, pp. 216, 217). In 1224 the King was in London, 21st April–26th May (Close Rolls, vol. i. pp. 593 b–601; Pat. Rolls, vol. i. pp. 436–441). Combining this fact with Falkes’s statement and with the writ of 26th April, we see that the “peace” must have been made not earlier than 21st April, and not later than the 23rd. The Monday after the octave of Trinity in that year, 17th June, was the morrow of the day fixed for the re-assembling of the Council at Northampton; see above, p. 222.