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PART V
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WILLIAM OF NEWBURGH, IN CHRONICLES or STEPHEN, ETC.,
VOL. I, p. 33.
WHILE thus [Stephen] strove with vain labour in the southern
parts of England against those who had rebelled against him
and were acting hostilely, the .fury of the Scots reviving broke
out again and took possession of Northumbria, exhausted
by the cruellest despoliations.
1138
GESTA STEPHANI, IN CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill,
pp. 32-33.
When Bedford had at last been taken [by Stephen], and
you might have thought that now an end had been put to
the strife, and that all disturbance of rebellion had been stilled
and wholly allayed, behold, the root and source of all the
mischief arose to promote strife and war, plundering and
burning, in that part of England
bria. . . .
!
which is called Northum-
GESTA STEPHANI, IN CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill,
p. 34.
There was a king in Scotland, which is conterminous
with England, a certain river dividing the two kingdoms
with a definite boundary ; a king of meek heart and born
of pious parents, whom he too emulated upon the righteous
path of life.
Because he, with the other magnates of the realm, indeed
first of them all, had bound himself by an oath in presence
of king Henry that when [Henry] died he would receive none
into the kingdom save either the daughter of the king or her
heir, he was greatly grieved that Stephen had succeeded to
the helm of the English kingdom. But since that had been
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Lights and portents in the sky give warning of approaching evil.
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