CHAPTER V

THE YOUNG KING, 1223–1227 208

NOTES I--The Truces of 1216–1217 269 II--The Blocked Gate at Lincoln 273 III--Falkes de Bréauté at Lincoln 275 IV--The End of the Battle of Lincoln 276 V--The Treaty of Kingston 278 VI--The Tenure of Crown Offices during the Minority 280 VII--The Papal Letters of 1223 286 VIII--The Royal Castles in 1223–1224 290 IX--Falkes and the “thirty pairs of letters” 292 X--Bedford Castle 293 XI--The Hanging of the Bedford Garrison 296

INDEX 301

_Filius non portabit iniquitatem patris._

THE MINORITY OF HENRY III