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The Minority of Henry the Third

Chapter 25: ERRATA
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About This Book

The book recounts the political and military turmoil that followed the king's sudden death and the accession of a young heir, focusing on the efforts to defend royal rights and restore order during a vulnerable minority. It traces emergency regency arrangements, the leadership of a renowned marshal, papal involvement, and campaigns to secure castles, offices, and allegiance amid baronial factionalism and foreign intervention. Attention is given to the selection and duties of tutors and governors, the boy monarch's early public presence, and the treaties, sieges, and governance decisions that gradually shifted authority from regents to the young king as he grew toward independent rule.

Transcriber’s Note

An errata slip was included with this book. It reads (footnote numbers have been added in brackets):

ERRATA

P. 39, note 3 (Footnote 517), line 6, for “li” read “le”; and line 7, for “walls” read “wall.”

Pp. 99–102 passim, for “Gaugy” read “Gouy”; and make a corresponding correction in index.

P. 139, last line, for “Doé” read “Douai.”

P. 148, last line of note 5 (Footnote 686), for “13th” read “12th.”

P. 154, note 1 (Footnote 703), line 2, for “two” read “three.”

P. 160, line 6 of note (Footnote 726), for “later in the summer” read “early next year.”

P. 212, line 1 of second paragraph, for “twenty-eight” read “twenty-five.”

P. 225, line 11, for “falx, faulx” read “faus or fauc”.

P. 291, line 20 of second paragraph, dele “and”; and after “Devizes” insert “and Ralf Gernon that of Corfe.”

These changes have been applied to this text.

Other changes

Other changes that have been made are:

Page 97 - the punctuation mark after “but they were ineffectual” did not print. A comma has been added.

Footnote 517 (originally page 106 note 2) - “1229” has been changed to “1219” in “The date—14th May, Tuesday before Ascension Day—is given in Ann. Wav., a. 1219”.

Page 163 - “Huntingdom” has been changed to “Huntingdon” in “the honour of Huntingdon”.

Footnote 878 (originally page 192 note 5) - “quaequae” has been changed to “quaeque” in “et ferro quaeque sibi obvia devastavit”.

Footnote 1045 (originally page 229 note 2) - “supro” has been changed to “supra” in “cum videret statum suum supra modum subito prosperatum”.

Page 283 - “quamdui” has been changed to “quamdiu” in “quamdiu nobis placuerit”.

Further note

Further note:

Footnote 326 (originally page 60 note 7) - the chronicle referred to is in volume 26 of Pertz’s “Scriptores”, rather than his “Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores”.