MR. GIBSON will find that this story, as well as that relative to Sir
William Gascoigne, is also told by MR. FOSS (_Judges of England_, vol.
iii. pp. 43. 261.), who suggests that the offence committed by Prince
Edward was an insult to Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and
Coventry, occasioned probably by the boldness with which that prelate,
while treasurer, corrected the insolence of Peter de Gaveston, and
restrained the Prince's extravagance. (_Ibid._ p. 114.)