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When
ancient
Chivalry
display
'd
The
pomp
of
her
heroic
games
,
And
crested
chiefs
and
tissued
dames
Assembled
,
at
the
clarion
's
call
,
In
some
proud
castle
's
high
arch
'd
hall
.
Warton
Prince
John
held
his
high
festival
in
the
Castle
of
Ashby
.
This
was
not
the
same
building
of
which
the
stately
ruins
still
interest
the
traveller
,
and
which
was
erected
at
a
later
period
by
the
Lord
Hastings
,
High
Chamberlain
of
England
,
one
of
the
first
victims
of
the
tyranny
of
Richard
the
Third
,
and
yet
better
known
as
one
of
Shakspeare
's
characters
than
by
his
historical
fame
.
The
castle
and
town
of
Ashby
,
at
this
time
,
belonged
to
Roger
de
Quincy
,
Earl
of
Winchester
,
who
,
during
the
period
of
our
history
,
was
absent
in
the
Holy
Land
.
Prince
John
,
in
the
meanwhile
,
occupied
his
castle
,
and
disposed
of
his
domains
without
scruple
;
and
seeking
at
present
to
dazzle
men
's
eyes
by
his
hospitality
and
magnificence
,
had
given
orders
for
great
preparations
,
in
order
to
render
the
banquet
as
splendid
as
possible
.
The
purveyors
of
the
Prince
,
who
exercised
on
this
and
other
occasions
the
full
authority
of
royalty
,
had
swept
the
country
of
all
that
could
be
collected
which
was
esteemed
fit
for
their
master
's
table
.
Guests
also
were
invited
in
great
numbers
;
and
in
the
necessity
in
which
he
then
found
himself
of
courting
popularity
,
Prince
John
had
extended
his
invitation
to
a
few
distinguished
Saxon
and
Danish
families
,
as
well
as
to
the
Norman
nobility
and
gentry
of
the
neighbourhood
.
However
despised
and
degraded
on
ordinary
occasions
,
the
great
numbers
of
the
Anglo-Saxons
must
necessarily
render
them
formidable
in
the
civil
commotions
which
seemed
approaching
,
and
it
was
an
obvious
point
of
policy
to
secure
popularity
with
their
leaders
.
It
was
accordingly
the
Prince
's
intention
,
which
he
for
some
time
maintained
,
to
treat
these
unwonted
guests
with
a
courtesy
to
which
they
had
been
little
accustomed
.
But
although
no
man
with
less
scruple
made
his
ordinary
habits
and
feelings
bend
to
his
interest
,
it
was
the
misfortune
of
this
Prince
,
that
his
levity
and
petulance
were
perpetually
breaking
out
,
and
undoing
all
that
had
been
gained
by
his
previous
dissimulation
.
