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124 SCOTTISH ANNALS
religion violently forced upon them, unless they desired it of
their own will."
And they added, " We were present with them, and we
heard this approved by wise men. And we wish this to hold
good in the present case ; and we request that it be confirmed.
For though we know that her case is less difficult than theirs,
seeing that they wore the veil of their own will, and she for
a like cause under compulsion, yet that none imagine us to
be influenced in favour of any we wish to proceed no farther
in judgment, being satisfied with this alone, that what held
in the greater may also hold in the lesser case."
"
Then Anselm replied, You know whereof I have warned
you, wherein I have instructed you, and what you have promised.
Since, therefore, you have so adjudged among you
as you say, according to what has appeared to you more
just, I by no means reject your decision, but receive it with
the greater security since I hear that it is supported by the
authority of so great a father."
[Matilda] was then brought in, and heard and understood
with cheerful countenance what had taken place and in ;
a
few words asked that a hearing be granted to her.
She spoke therefore, and offered to prove, either by oath
or in any other form of ecclesiastic law they might prefer,
that her plea now terminated was based upon the solid truth.
She said that she was ready to do this not because she
imagined herself to be disbelieved, but with intent to cut off
from spiteful men all future opportunity for slander.
In reply they told her that nothing of this kind was needful
; for if any evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart
brought forth evil, sooner than spoken it would be suppressed,
the actual truth being now proved and confirmed by approval
of so distinguished personages.
After this she received an address and benediction from
Anselm, and went away ; and after a very few days had passed
became, as I have said, a queen and wife.
And when this union was to take place and be sanctioned
by the ceremony of the church, father [Anselm] himself stood
higher than the rest, and publicly addressing the whole nobility
of the realm and the lesser folk who were flocking around
for this purpose, and indeed surrounding the king and
[Matilda] before the doors of the church, informed them in
what manner the maiden's case (made public by report) had
been sifted and decided by the the realm.
bishops and ecclesiastics of