"
While the friends took the simple breakfast prepared for them by the
widow, Baliol related, that in consequence of the interference of
Philip le Bel with Edward, he had been released from the Tower of
London and sent to France, but under an oath never to leave that
country. Philip gave the exiled king the castle of Galliard for a
residence; where for some time he enjoyed the shadow of royalty, having
still a sort of court composed of his own noble followers, some of whom
were now with him, and the barons of the neighborhood. Philip allowed
him guards and a splendid table. But on the peace being signed between
France and England, in order that Edward might give up his ally the
Earl of Flanders to his offended liege lord, the French monarch
consented to relinquish the cause of Baliol, and though he should
continue to grant him a shelter in his dominions, he removed from him
all the appendages of a king.
"Accordingly," continued Baliol, "the guard was taken from my gates, my
establishment reduced to that of a private nobleman, and no longer
having it in my power to gratify the avidity or to flatter the ambition
of those who came about me, I was soon left nearly alone.
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