Note 1010 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227
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“Item de hoc respondeat [Hubertus] quod dum dominus rex fuit infra aetatem et subvenire debuit terrae Pictaviae, et exercitus suus proficisci deberet in Pictaviam, fecit ipse comes obsidere castrum Bedfordiae,” &c. Hubert in replying to this charge disclaims responsibility for the siege of Bedford, but appears to endorse the statement that “the King’s host” which went to that siege ought, or was intended or professedly intended, to have gone to Poitou; Responsiones, pp. 66, 67.