And Edmund Mortimer said to me that he had heard from his servants who were at the death that he asked for a priest before his death, but without sure certainty we will do nothing. In the third he told Bishop Robert of Bath and Wells about the affair with the proviso that he desired to protect the king against the plots of his enemies. The meaning of this seems all too clear, even if there is confusion as to who, if anyone, holds the original treasonable document. O f the deeds themselves carried out that December night even contemporaries were confused. The king issued no public statement as to the death of his enemy and it is unlikely that those who had lured Llywelyn to his untimely death would have shouted about their part in the deed.
Several chronicles carry abridged and confused accounts of the day.
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