FICTITIOUS CHARACTERS.

These are, the priests at Bury Castle; the various Jews introduced;

Levina; Doucebelle de Vaux.

Eva de Braose, Marie de Lusignan, Sir John de Burgh and his wife Hawise,

are historical so far as their existence is concerned, but the

characters ascribed to them are imaginary.

The dreadful end of Delecresse is thus far true,--that a Jew was thus

treated by Richard de Clare. But who it really was who revealed to King

Henry the clandestine marriage of Richard and Margaret, is one of the

inscrutable mysteries of which no evidence remains.

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