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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 105<br />

deprived of the land 1 which the count [Robert of Normandy]<br />

2 had previously ceded to him and went out of ;<br />

Normandy to<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g, his brother-<strong>in</strong>-law, <strong>in</strong> <strong>Scotland</strong>, and to his sister.<br />

While k<strong>in</strong>g William was out of England, k<strong>in</strong>g Malcolm of<br />

<strong>Scotland</strong> came hither <strong>in</strong>to England and harried a great part of<br />

it, 3 until the good men who had charge of <strong>this</strong> land sent an<br />

army aga<strong>in</strong>st him, and turned him back.<br />

1091<br />

FLORENCE OF WORCESTER, CHRONICON, VOL. II, p. 28. 4<br />

Meanwhile, <strong>in</strong> the month of May, Malcolm, k<strong>in</strong>g of the Scots ,<br />

<strong>in</strong>vaded Northumbria with a great army ; <strong>in</strong>tend<strong>in</strong>g to advance<br />

farther, if success had resulted, and to br<strong>in</strong>g force aga<strong>in</strong>st<br />

the <strong>in</strong>habitants of England. God willed otherwise : t<strong>here</strong>fore<br />

he was h<strong>in</strong>dered from his design. Nevertheless before<br />

he returned his army carried away with it no moderate amount<br />

of booty.<br />

1091<br />

DE MIRACULIS ET TRANSLATIONIBUS S. CUTHBERTI, IN S. OF D. ,<br />

VOL. II, PP. 338-340.<br />

Meanwhile the aforesaid k<strong>in</strong>g of the English [William II]<br />

and Malcolm, k<strong>in</strong>g of the Scots, after disturbance of quarrels<br />

had arisen on both sides, came to violent enmity, to the hurt of<br />

either realm.<br />

And hence Malcolm led forth his army, and compelled the<br />

Northumbrians to seek their places of refuge. And some of<br />

them hid themselves <strong>in</strong> recesses of the woods and mounta<strong>in</strong>s :<br />

but many, and especially those who are called peculiarly St.<br />

Cuthbert's people, carried their goods to Durham for <strong>here</strong> <strong>in</strong><br />

;<br />

times of danger they have ever a sure place of refuge, trust<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>in</strong> the protection not so much of the place as of the peace due<br />

to the presence of the most holy body. Thither they brought<br />

all their flocks and all their furniture, and the open spaces <strong>in</strong> the<br />

town scarcely sufficed for so many and so great crowds of men<br />

and animals.<br />

1 " The honour," Fl. of W., S. of D., Hoved.<br />

3 " And [the k<strong>in</strong>g] expelled him from Normandy," Fl. of W., ii, 28.<br />

3 H. of H., u.s. :<br />

" Meanwhile Malcolm, k<strong>in</strong>g of the Scots, came <strong>in</strong>to<br />

England for spoil and very greatly harried it."<br />

4 Cf. S. of D., H.R., ii, 218. Hoved., i, 143. H. of H., 216.<br />

Malcolm advanced to Chester-le-Street ; S. of D., H.R., ii, 221 ; <strong>in</strong>fra,<br />

s.a. 1093.

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