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In the Raign of Edward the 2d. upon the Ad∣vancement of the two Spencers to the Kings favour, Thomas Earl of Lancast••r, and in a manner all the Barons of the Kingdom, as if it had been a Crime in the King to love any one but whom they pleas'd,
never rested till by the Terrour of Rebellious Ci∣vil Arms, they had enforced the King to banish his two favourites.
Thereupon the King manfully resolving to die in the quarrel, or bring his Lords to be at his dis∣posal, levies an Army, marches to Cicester, taking many Castles and beseiging others.
This put the Barons into such a Consternation, that many of them deserted their Chieftain the Earl of Lancaster, and rendred themselves to the Kings Mercy. Others were apprehended, as were the two Mortimers; the rest sent to Walling∣ford Castle. However the Faction, tho weaken'd by these defections, made head in the North un∣der the Earl of Lancaster: Thither the King march∣ed, and with the only shew of his Army made the Earl fly to Burton upon Trent. Nor did the di∣spleasure of Heaven, nor the revenging Arm of Soveraign Power leave them so; for at Borrough-bridge Humfrey de Bohun, one of the Chief Rebels was slain by a Welshman, who thrust him from un∣der the Bridge into his Body with his Spear. The Earl of Lancaster also, with other Principal Barons and Knights, to the number of Fourscore and ten were also taken Prisoners, by Persons of no great Note, the Captains of Carleil and York, who with considerable forces out of those parts, stopt the farther Progress of the Rebels at Borrough-bridg already mentioned.
The Earl of Lancaster with five or six Barons more were beheaded at Pontfraict. The Lords Clifford, Mowbray and Dey-vil were hanged in Iron
Chains at York; the Lord Badlesmore was Exe∣cuted at Canterbury, and others in other places, as the Lord John Clifford at Glocester, the Lord Henry Teys at London, and at VVindsor the Lord Francis de Aldenham; all which miserable Tragedies were only the dire Effects of Disloyalty and Rebellion.
True it is, that this unfortunate Prince was depo∣sed by the revengful Contrivances of a Disloyal Wife overswayed and governed by the most Ambitious and vindicative Rebel then alive, Roger Lord Mortimer. But Heaven would not permit that either should long enjoy the Fruits of that dismal Tragedy which they had acted: For Mortimer when he least suspe∣cted it, was ravished by the Young King from the Embraces of his Adulterous Moth r, and ignomi∣niously hanged at the common Gallows at Tiborn. The Queen Mother was deprived of al••••••er Ample Dower, confined within the streight Limits of a nar∣row aboad at Risings near London, put to a short Pension and Allowance of only a thousand Pounds per annum, upon which she liv'd a solitary Widow for thirty Years together, debarred of all those Pomps and Honours, otherwise due to her high Birth and Quality.