St. Lucia, Dec. 1850.
_King John at Lincoln._--Matthew Paris, under the year 1200, gives an
account of King John's visiting Lincoln to meet William, king of Scots, and
to receive his homage:
"Ubi Rex Johannes, [he says] contra consilium multorum, intravit
civitatem intrepidus, quod nullus antecessorum suorum attentare ausus
fuerat."
My Query is, What were they afraid of?