THE QUEEN INSULTED BY THE LONDONERS (1263).

+Source.+--_William Rishanger's Chronicle_, p. 18. (Rolls Series).

Meanwhile, Edward, the King's son, arrived from across the seas, and

garrisoned Windsor Castle with an armed band of aliens, whom he had

brought with him a short time before. The King, however, fearing to be

imprisoned in the Tower by the army of the Barons, agreed while there

was yet time, through the mediation of timorous men, to the conditions

of peace proposed by the Barons, and promised to observe the Provisions

of Oxford. But the Queen, impelled by woman's malice, opposed the Barons

as far as she could. Consequently, when she had embarked in a boat on

the Thames for the purpose of proceeding by water to the castle at

Windsor, a mob of townspeople gathered at the bridge under which she had

to pass, loaded her with abuse and execrations, and, by throwing stones

and mud, compelled her to return to the Tower.

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