184:, accompanying the cardinals on their way North so that Lewis could be enthroned as bishop in their presence. After despoiling the travellers, Sir Gilbert and Sir John imprisoned the Beaumonts at Mitford Castle, "delivering two horses to the cardinals to go freely to Durham" and later freeing Lewis de Beaumont on 17 October. Sir John de Lilburne was listed among those who attacked the party of travellers but was pardoned for his involvement with Sir Gilbert (with the exception of the robbery committed upon the cardinals) on 19 March 1318 in accordance with the terms granted upon surrendering Knaresborough Castle and again on 12 November, forfeiting a portion of his lands for adhering to the Earl of Lancaster's rebellion, some of which were later restored to the family after Sir John's death. In fact, despite his transgressions, Sir John was deemed to have borne "himself well towards the late king and the king and died in the fealty of the latter without any suspicion of evil against him" albeit an "adherent of the Scots with Gilbert de Middleton, traitor to the late king".
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The knights' role in the rebellion ended in the same year after the execution of Sir
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