It lapsed in fact to its suzerain; and its earls, barons, and gentry swore homage in Parliament at Berwick to Edward as their king.

The sacred stone on which its older sovereigns had been installed, an oblong block of limestone which legend asserted to have been the pillow of Jacob as angels ascended and descended upon him, was removed from Scone and placed in Westminster by the shrine of the Confessor.

It was enclosed by Edward's order in a stately seat, which became from that hour the coronation chair of English kings.

To the king himself the whole business must have seemed another and easier conquest of Wales, and the mercy and just government which had followed his first success followed his second also.

The government of the new dependency was entrusted to John of Warenne, Earl of Surrey, at the head of an English Council of Regency.