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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 163<br />

the abbots, and David, k<strong>in</strong>g of the Scots, 1 the earls and<br />

barons of the whole of England, that they would be loyal to<br />

his daughter the empress [Matilda], 2 and secure for her afte]<br />

him the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of England by <strong>here</strong>ditary right, unless whe^i<br />

he died he should leave a son of lawful wedlock as his heir.<br />

To the queen also they swore that all that the k<strong>in</strong>g had given<br />

her they would always preserve <strong>in</strong>violable and unchanged.<br />

1127<br />

JOHN OF WORCESTER, IN FL. OF W., VOL. II, p. 84, S.A. 1125.3<br />

. . . [William of Curboil, archbishop of Canterbury,]<br />

came to Rome and was honourably received by Honorius,<br />

the chief pontiff who had succeeded Calixtus. And that<br />

pope <strong>in</strong>trusted to [William] to represent him <strong>in</strong> England and<br />

<strong>Scotland</strong>, 4 and appo<strong>in</strong>ted him legate of the apostolic see.<br />

1127, July.<br />

LIBER VITJE ECCLESI^E DUNELMENSIS, PP. 67-68 AND 59. 5<br />

In the year from the Lord's <strong>in</strong>carnation 1127, the sixteenth<br />

6 before the Kalends of August, on the festival of St.<br />

Kenelm, the martyr, when Thurstan, archbishop of York,<br />

and Ranulf, bishop of Durham, and Robert, bishop<br />

of St.<br />

Andrews, and John, bishop of Glasgow, and Geoffrey, abbot<br />

of St. Albans, were together <strong>in</strong> Roxburgh with k<strong>in</strong>g David,<br />

the same bishop Robert summoned prior Algar and sub-prior<br />

Roger 7 to the door of the church of St. John the Evangelist,<br />

say<strong>in</strong>g and protest<strong>in</strong>g that he had claimed no privilege, no<br />

custom, concern<strong>in</strong>g the church of Cold<strong>in</strong>gham, except as all<br />

churches of the whole of Lothian <strong>in</strong> common owe obedience<br />

1 " First of the laymen swore David, k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>, the uncle of the<br />

empress." W. of M., H.N., ii, 529 ; cf. ibid., 538, 585.<br />

2 " His daughter Alice, who was formerly the wife of the emperor of<br />

Saxony," says A.S.C., MS. E, s.a. 1127. She is also called Adela, J. of H. ;<br />

Adeliza, R. of W.<br />

3 Cf. S. of D., H.R., ii, 281, s.a. 1127.<br />

4 " Throughout England," S. of D., u.s.<br />

5 The version on page 67 was written by a hand of the twelfth century ;<br />

that on page 59 by one of the thirteenth. (Robert's charter is pr<strong>in</strong>ted by'<br />

Lawrie, Early Scottish Charters, 59-60. H. & S., ii, 213-214.)<br />

Preced<strong>in</strong>g <strong>this</strong> is the follow<strong>in</strong>g letter, ibid., 67 :<br />

" David, by God's<br />

grace k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots, to Edward, monk of Cold<strong>in</strong>gham [Cott'], greet<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

" I command and request thee to give me enough of thy timber to supply<br />

my wood-pile at Berwick, from the wood which is between thee and Liulf<br />

son of Uctred, <strong>in</strong> Calang'.<br />

" Witness Herbert the Chancellor. At Peebles."<br />

8 17th July.<br />

7 Prior and sub-prior of Durham.<br />

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