Letter, Stabbed him in the Arm with an Impoisoned Knife; whereupon the Prince struck him down with his Foot, and upon the noise, his Guards coming in, cut the Villan in pieces; yet so desperate was the Wound, by reason of the venom, that the Surgeons declared, That unless any at the hazard of their Lives would daily suck the Wound, to draw away the Poison, his Life could not be saved; this, when all his Courtiers strained Courtesie to do, or utterly refused, was under∣taken by Elianor his virtuous and loving Wife, Sister to the King of Spain, who had accompanied him in that tedious Journey; and yet she was not at all injured by it.
And now the King having had some Peace, was a little disturbed by a Tumult in Norwich, who Burnt the Monastery of the Trinity; but he hasting thither, they dispersed, yet escaped not so, for a strict enquiry being made into the matter, 50 of the chief Actors were Drawn, Hanged and Quartered, and their Quar∣ters Burned. Soon after this, the King fell Sick, and Dyed at the Abby of St. Edmund's in Suffolk, on the Sixteenth of November, Anno Dom. 1275, in the 57th Year of his Reign, and 65th of his Age. He was Buried with great Magnificence at Westminster.
In this Kings Reign, an Imposture at the Provincial Synod at Oxford, suffered himself to be Wounded in the Hands, Feet and Sides, saying he was Christ; and a Woman that went about with him called herself the Virgin Mary; but being taken and closed up between two Walls, they there miserably perished.
On St. Paul's Day in the 15th Year of his Reign, such an unusual Thunder and Lightening happened, That whilst Roger Niger Bishop of London was at Mass, in St. Paul's, the Cathedral was so shaken, that the Peo∣ple verily supposed it would have falln, and that they