+Source.+--_Walter of Hemingburgh's Chronicle_, vol. ii., pp. 266-267.
(English Historical Society Publications.)
When the evil intents of the new King (Robert the Bruce) became known,
our King sent to the nobles of the land ordering them to come to
Carlisle, ready for war, a fortnight after the blessed John the
Baptist's day. In the interval, because the King was afflicted with
severe dysentery, and none had speech with him save with his attendants,
it was noised abroad among the people that the King was dead. Edward,
hearing this, ordered everything to be prepared for his journey to
Scotland, and moved his camp almost two miles from Carlisle on the third
day of July--a Monday; on the Tuesday he rode almost two miles; on the
fourth day of the week he rested, but on the Thursday he proceeded to
Burgh-on-Sands, and there he proposed to remain over the following day.
It was his habit and custom almost every day to remain in bed until the
ninth hour; but on the Friday, when he was being raised up by his
attendants to partake of food, he expired in their arms. The King
departed from this world on the day of the translation of S. Thomas,
Archbishop and martyr; his servants concealed the death of the King
until his son and the nobles of the kingdom should come, and many were
imprisoned for proclaiming it. When the Prince his son and the other
nobles arrived, they decreed that the King's body should be removed with
all honour to the south by his Treasurer, the Bishop of Chester, and all
his household, and should remain in the church of the monks of Waltham
until some definite policy should be adopted regarding Scotland, and
there should be leisure to arrange for sepulture; and this was done.