able condition be was led through the town of Pontefract to the place of execution, in front of his own castle.* A few days afterwards, the king, whilst he yet tarried at Ponfract, granted the Temple to Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, by a royal charter couched in the following terms :— M Edward by the grace of God, king, &c, to the archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justiciaries, &c tkc.., health. Know that on account of the good and laudable service which our beloved kinsman and faithful servant Aymer de Valence hath rendered and will continue to render to us, we have given and granted, and by our royul charter have confirmed to the said earl, the mansion-house and messuage called tbe New Temple in the suburb of London, with the houses, rents, and all other things to the same mansion-house and messuage belonging, formerly the property of the Templars, and afterwards of Thomas earl of Lancaster, our enemy and rebel, and which, by the forfeiture of the same Thomas,have come into our hands by way of escheat, to be had and holden by the same Aymer and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, of us and our heirs, and the other chief lords of the fee, by tbe same services as those formerly rendered ; but if the said Aymer shall die without heirs of his body lawfully be gotten, then the said mansion-house, messuage, &c. &c, shall revert to us and our heirs." ή- Rather more than a year after the date of this grant, Aymer de Valence was murdered. He had accompanied queen Isabella to the court of her father, the king of France, and was there slain (June 23rd, A. D. 1323) by one of the English fugitives of the Lancastrian faction, in revenge for the death of the earl of Lancaster, whose destruction he was believed to have compassed. * Processus contra comitem Lancastrian. Acta ffyri , torn. iii. p. d3t. Lei. coll. Vol.i. p. 66ft. La Afore, Walsinghma. t CnrL 15. E. II. m. 91. Acta ffjmwri, tom. in. p. 940.