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174 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

Peter, and that thou mayest receive eternal rewards for<br />

temporal benefits. . . .<br />

And we have by our writ<strong>in</strong>gs commanded our venerable<br />

brother William, archbishop of Canterbury, legate of the<br />

apostolic see, to pronounce the sentence of anathema aga<strong>in</strong>st<br />

John, pseudo-bishop of Glasgow, until he be healed of his<br />

errors and return to the metropolitan right and to subjection<br />

to thee. 1<br />

Be it thy care to pronounce the sentence of anathema<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>st that John, unless with<strong>in</strong> three months he return to<br />

his holy mother the church of Rome and of York.<br />

Given at Pisa, the tenth 2 before the Kalends of May.<br />

1136<br />

GESTA STEPHANI, IN CHRONICLES or STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill,<br />

pp. 20-21.<br />

. . . And<br />

when the castle [of Bathampton] was yielded<br />

<strong>in</strong>to k<strong>in</strong>g [Stephen's] hands the hard condition was imposed<br />

upon [the defenders], 3 whether they would or not, that they<br />

should wander <strong>in</strong> exile from the whole realm until the k<strong>in</strong>g's<br />

mercy should recall them. And they abode for a long time,<br />

as we have heard, with the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>.<br />

H37<br />

RICHARD OF HEXHAM, DE GESTIS REGIS STEPHANI, IN<br />

CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill, PP. 150-1 5 1. 4<br />

The next year, that is <strong>in</strong> 1137, the treaty of peace was<br />

broken, and immediately after Easter 5 David, k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>,<br />

gat<strong>here</strong>d his army and purposed to ravage Northumbria.<br />

But by <strong>in</strong>struction of k<strong>in</strong>g Stephen, who was then <strong>in</strong><br />

Normandy, the chief part of the earls and barons of England<br />

came w T<br />

ith a great army of knights to Newcastle, which is<br />

<strong>in</strong> Northumbria, <strong>read</strong>y to oppose him if he should <strong>in</strong>vade the<br />

realm of 6<br />

England.<br />

At last through messengers between them a truce was<br />

1 Innocent II's letter of the same date to William of Curboil is given <strong>in</strong><br />

Ra<strong>in</strong>e's York, iii, 67.<br />

2 22nd April.<br />

3 The castellans of Robert of Bathampton. Cf. <strong>in</strong>fra, s.a. 1138.<br />

4 Cf. J. of H., <strong>in</strong> S. of D., ii, 288.<br />

5 Easter fell on llth April <strong>in</strong> 1137.<br />

* J. of H., u.s. :<br />

" Very quickly a host of the earls and nobles of Eng-<br />

land assembled at Newcastle, to oppose his efforts."

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