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180 SCOTTISH ANNALS
RICHARD OF HBXHAM, DE GESTIS STEPHANI, IN CHRONICLES
OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill, PP. 1 5 1-1 52. l
So that execrable army, savager than any race of heathen,
yielding honour to neither God nor man, harried the whole
province and slaughtered everywhere folk of either sex, of
every age and condition, 2
destroying, pillaging and burning
the vills, churches and houses. 3 For they slaughtered by
the edge of the sword or transfixed with their spears the sick
on their pallets, women pregnant and in labour the babes
;
in their cradles, and other innocents at the breast or in the
bosom of their mothers, with the mothers themselves and
;
worn-out old men and feeble old women, and the others who
were for any reason disabled, wherever they found them.
And the more pitiable a form of death they could destroy
them by, the more did . . .
they rejoice.
It is even reported that in one place they slew many little
children gathered together, and draining their blood collected
it in a stream which they had previously dammed up, and
thus drank that bloody water, nay, now for the most part
blood. 4
. . .
AlLREI) OF RlEVAULX, DE STANDARDO, IN CHRONICLES OF
STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill, PP. 187-188 (speech of
Walter Espec.)
It chanced that in the same house were found several
little children. A Galwegian stood, and seizing one after
the other by both feet struck their heads against the door-
post. And when he had piled them in a heap he laughed
to his comrade, and said, " See how many Gauls I alone have
"
slain to-day !
1 A similar but shorter account is given by J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 290.
Cf. A. of R. ? Speech of Espec, in Chr. of Ste., iii, 187.
2 A similar expression occurs in A. of R., u.s., 187. Cf. A. of R., Eul.
Dav., supra ; J. of H., u.s., 290.
3 "
J. of H., u.s., 290 : It is incredible to relate what crimes and outrages,
and blasphemies against God, and abuses of humanity itself that army
of the Scots committed. All places were full of slaughter, rapine and fire."
4 Cf . the speech attributed to Walter Espec before the battle of the
"
Standard, A. of R., in Chr. of Ste., etc., iii, 187 : Wearied by the slaughter
of innocents, with unwashed knives, with which they had scattered the
entrails of their hapless victims, they cut the meats to eat ; and mixing
with water human blood, they quenched their thirst with the cruel draught,
saying that they were most blessed whom fortune had preserved till a time
Scots still call the
when they could drink the blood of Gauls." [Highland
Lowlanders " Gauls " (Gaill for an earlier. Galli ;) the meaning is " foreigners."]