Note 1163 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227

Dugdale, Baronage, vol. i. p. 177, from Register of Lacock Abbey. Roger (p. 117) says that after the reconciliation at Marlborough Hubert invited Longsword to dinner and there, “ut dicitur,” poisoned him. If so, the poison must have been a slow one, since the dinner took place before the court left Marlborough, i.e., before 30th January, and the Earl did not die till five weeks later. His health, already failing in October, was evidently broken down altogether by his sufferings at sea.