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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 157
men ; and horribly scattering his intestines, sacrificed him
the altar.
upon
He was afterwards received by earl David in England,
for the love of God, and sufficiently sustained in food and
clothing, along with a child, his daughter : and
as if wishing
to caress the two-year-old son of his benefactor, he cruelly
thrust him with the iron fingers which he used, being maimed ;
and thus, by instigation of the devil, without warning scattered
the entrails of the suckling between the hands of his
nurse. And thus was done to death the eldest child of David.
Therefore [the cleric] was bound to the tails of four wild
horses and when ;
they pulled vigorously in different directions,
he was torn asunder, for the terror of miscreants.
1124
WILLIAM OF MALMESBUKY, GESTA REGUM, VOL. II, pp. 476-
477. !
When Alexander was laid with his ancestors, David, the
youngest of Malcolm's sons, ascended the Scottish throne.
Him the king had made an earl, and had presented with a
noble woman in wedlock.
He was a youth more courtly than the others, and one
who had rubbed off all tarnish of Scottish barbarity through
being polished from his boyhood by intercourse and friendship
with us.
Indeed, when he obtained the kingdom, he immediately
relieved from payment of three years' taxes all his countrymen
who were willing to dwell in a more civilized manner,
or to be attired with more refinement, or to be more particular
about their food.
And indeed it has never been placed upon the records
of history that three kings and brothers were of so great
sanctity as they, redolent of the nectar of their mother's
1 Cf . infra, s.a. 1153, for David's character; also supra, s.a. 1093.
"
S. of D., H.R., ii, 275 : And his brother David succeeded him, and
immediately held in peace and loyalty to him on all sides the kingdom which
he had received without opposition, and which his brother had held with
the greatest labour."
A.S.C., MS. E, s.a. 1124: "And David, his brother, who was earl in
Northamptonshire, succeeded to the kingdom ; and had them both together,
the kingdom in Scotland and the earldom in England." Cf. the charters
(1124 x 1134) in Chr. of Ramsey, 280, 255, 226.
Matilda died after 1147 (Scots Peerage, i, 3,) and the earldom of Northampton
appears to have passed to her son Simon. (Cf. supra, Introductory.)
On the death of prince Henry in 1152 Simon received the earldom of
Huntingdon also ; Dugdale, Baronage, i, 58-59.