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whetted his teeth, and did bite now on one staff, now on another, as he
walked, and oft brake the same in pieces when he had done, and with
such disordered behaviour and furious gestures he uttered his grief,
that the noblemen very well perceived the inclination of his inward
affection concerning these things before the breaking-up of the council,
and therefore sore lamented the state of the realm, guessing what
would follow of his impatience, and displeasant taking of the matter."
The faithless king made an attempt to regain his lost power, and war
breaking out afresh in the following year, a numerous army, under the
command of William de Nivernois, besieged the castle, which was
stoutly defended by Inglehard de Achie and sixty knights. The barons,
however, learning that John was marching through Norfolk and Suffolk,
and ravaging the country, hastily raised the siege and advanced to
meet him. But he avoided them, marched to Stamford and Lincoln, and
from thence towards Wales. On his return from this expedition he was
seized with the distemper of which he died.
Henry the Third was an ardent encourager of architecture, and his reign
marks the second great epoch in the annals of the castle.
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