. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 384 ELEANOR OF PROVENCE. Henry's absence in Gascony. " At this time," says Madox' " the queen was custos regni, and sat vice regis "^ We have thus an instance of a queen-consort performing, not only tho functions of a sovereign, in the absence of the monarch, but acting as a
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 384 ELEANOR OF PROVENCE. Henry's absence in Gascony. " At this time," says Madox' " the queen was custos regni, and sat vice regis "^ We have thus an instance of a queen-consort performing, not only tho functions of a sovereign, in the absence of the monarch, but acting as a judge in the highest court of judicature, curia regis. There can be no doubt but this princess took her seat on the King's-bench.'' No sooner had queen Eleanor got the reins of empire in her own hands, unrestrained by the counterbalancing power of the great earl of Leicester, who had volunteered liis services to king Henry against the Insurgent Gascons, than she pro- ceeded to play the sovereign in a more despotic manner, in one instance at least, than had ever been attempted by the mightiest monarch of the Norman hue. Remembering her former disputes with the city of London, she now took the opportunity of gratifying her revenge and covetousuess at the same time, by demanding of their magistrates the payment of a large smn, which she insisted they owed her for aurum regim, or queen-gold,—a due which the queens of England were entitled to claim on every tenth mark paid to the king, as voluntary fines for the royal good-will in the renewals of leases on crown lands, or the granting of charters. Eleanor, in this instance, most unreasonably demanded her queen-gold on various enormous fines that had been uiunghteously and vexatiously extorted by the king from the plundered mer- chants and citizens of London. For the non-payment of this unjust claim, Eleanor, in a very summary manner, committed the sheriffs of London, Richard Picard and John de North- ampton, to the ]Mai'shalsea p
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