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SCOTTISH ANNALS 177
planned and brought about by the barons themselves without
consulting him, he wisely weighed the consequences, and
awaited in silence some while the result to which affairs begun
should tend.
At last, when king Henry's daughter sent a letter to him
and stated that she was alienated from her father's will,
deprived of the kingdom promised and sworn to her ; that
the laws were broken, justice trampled under foot, and the
oath of the barons of England and their sworn treaty wholly
violated and regarded as nothing ; and when therefore she
prayed him, suppliantly and with tears, that he, as her kinsman,
would help her in her forsakenness, as being bound to
her by oath would afford assistance to her in her pitiable
plight, then the king groaned aloud, and, fired with zeal for
justice, determined to disturb the kingdom of England, both
for the bond of common kinship and for the faith promised
and due to the woman in order that strife should be stirred
;
up on all sides against king [Stephen,] and that he should
be compelled, by God's help, to yield to a juster [claimant]
that which he had occupied unjustly, as it seemed to [king
David.]
King [David] had with him, spurring him on with the
frequent rowel of exhortation to excite disturbance, on one
hand the son of Robert of Bathampton and his associates,
who, as has been said, had been exiled from England, and
had taken refuge with him in the hope of recovering their
country ;
l and on the other hand Eustace Fitz John, king
Henry's chief and familiar friend 2 and ; very many others,
who agitated for war either for the sake of gain or for the
opportunity of defending what appeared to them to be justice.
King David therefore (for such was his name) published
an edict throughout Scotland, and roused all to arms ; and
slackening the reins of his control instructed them to inflict
upon the English all the most bloodthirsty, all the most brutal
deeds they could devise, laying compassion aside.
Now Scotland, which is also called Albany, is a district
closed in by marshes and abounding in fertile woods, in
milk and cattle, and begirt with safe harbours and wealthy
islands ; but its inhabitants are barbarous and unclean,
neither subdued by bitter cold nor stunted by severe hunger ;
and they rely upon swift feet and light armour. They regard
as nothing the dread close of bitter death among the members
1 Cf. supra, s.a. 1136. For R. de Bathampton cf. H. of H., 259.
2 For Eustace Fitz John cf. A. of R., infra.
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