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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 109
hither, and sent thither a great multitude of [churlish] 1 folk
with women and cattle, there to dwell and to till the land. 2
1093
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, MS. E, S.A. 1093. 3
In this year, in Lent, king William was taken so very
ill at Gloucester 4 that he was everywhere proclaimed to be
dead.
And in his sickness 5 he vowed many vows to God : to lead
his own life aright and to ; protect and have peace with
God's churches, and never again to sell them for money and
;
to have all just laws among his people. And
. . .
to many
monasteries he granted land.
But that he afterwards withdrew, when he had recovered ;
and relinquished all the good laws which he had previously
promised us.
Then after this the king of Scotland sent and desired [the
fulfilment] of the agreement which had been made with him.
And king William summoned him to Gloucester, and sent
him hostages to Scotland, and Edgar Etheling afterwards and
;
thereafter the men again, who brought him with much honour
to the king.
But when he came to the king he could not be held worthy
either of speech with our king or of the agreements which had
been formerly made with him. And therefore they parted in
great enmity, and king Malcolm went home to Scotland.
1 In text Eyrlisces ; read cyrlisces. (Thorpe.) Ann. of Wav., u.s.,
multos villanos.
2 "
Fl. of W., u.s.. mentions no colonization, but adds : For this city,
like several others in those parts, had been destroyed by the pagan Danes
two hundred years before, and remained deserted to that time."
3
Cf. Fl. of W., ii, 30-31 ; S. of D., ii, 220-221 ; Hoved., i, 145-146.
Ann. of Wav., in A.M., ii, 202.
"
W. of M., Gf.R., ii, 366 : But indeed at that time [1091, supra], through
the efforts of earl Robert, who had long ago given his intimate friendship to
the Scot, harmony was established between Malcolm and William. Nevertheless
when many disputes had been raised on both sides, and because justice
wavered through the ill-will of either side, Malcolm came of his own accord
to Gloucester, praying much for peace, but only upon just conditions. But
he obtained nothing, except to return scatheless to his kingdom ; because the
king disdained to take by guile him whom he had conquered by valour."
4 " Was struck down by a violent illness at Alveston, and hastened to
the city of Gloucester, and there lay sick during the whole of Lent," Fl. of W. ,
U.S.
5 " When he thought he was soon to die, as his barons insinuated to
him," Fl. of W., u.s.