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irrlfulijia Camtotmi THIRD SERIES, No. XX.—OCTOBER, 1859. THE EARLS, EARLDOM, AND CASTLE OF PEMBROKE. No. IV. THE EARLS MARESCHAL. (Continued from p. 202.) The conduct of the Earl Mareschal at this very difficult conjuncture displayed in a remarkable degree his firm¬ ness and conciliatory spirit, and forms an important feature in the history of the new reign. Having caused the royal corpse to be embalmed at Croxton, he escorted it, at the head of the troops, by Newark to "Worcester, where it was committed with due ceremony to the care of God and St. Wolstan. He then reached Gloucester on the 27th October, having, by cir¬ cular to the sheriffs, summoned all persons to pay alle¬ giance to Prince Henry, then only ten years old. At Gloucester he presented the youth to such as were at hand, and next day, 28th, had him crowned in the cathedral. His chief supporter in this ceremony was the Poitevin, Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, one of the turbulent spirits of the reign; " Vir equestris ordinis et in rebus bellicosis eruditus," says Wendover,—a cha¬ racter not altogether uncommon among the prelates of the thirteenth century. The earl and his kinsman, John Mareschal, did homage at the coronation, " We have/' ARCH. CAMB., THIRD SERIES, VOL. V. 21