Note 1056 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227

In the Querimonia, l.c. we read: “Cujus captio postquam mihi fuerat nunciata, ego apud Northamptoniam propter servitium regis cum aliis baronibus terrae conveneram, ad castrum de Bedeford pro exquirendo fratre meo ... tam cito perveni.” But the King, in a letter written a few weeks later, says Falkes refused to come before the Council when summoned to answer for Braybroke’s capture, “cum alias teneatur ratione possessionum magnarum et officii maximi quam tenuit in curia nostra” (see above, footnote 1037) “ad nos in conciliis nostris venire non vocatus” (Roy. Lett., vol. i. p. 226). This seems to imply that Falkes had not attended the Northampton meeting at all.