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182 SCOTTISH ANNALS
and in the consecrated places irreverently committed acts
violent, lewd and execrable.
JOHN OF HEXHAM, IN S. OF D., VOL. II, p. 289.
And a certain Scot advanced from the ranks with his
followers, a man powerful and rich in the land of his birth,
and seemed to wish to proceed through the river Tyne to
the church of Hexham, hoping for booty. The young men
of Hexham fell upon him and put to flight his companions,
and bore him to the ground, pierced through the body but
resisting keenly.
Because of this, indignation was aroused through the
whole army of the Scots, who to avenge his death hastened
to fall upon the church of Hexham and to destroy it utterly
with its inhabitants. But William Fitz Duncan called them
back, anxious for the defence of the place.
DE GESTIS REGIS STEPHANI, IN
CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill, p. 153.
RICHARD OF HEXHAM, .
Now while these things were done by his men the king of
Scotland delayed with a great host at Corbridge. 1
At this time in the land of Ranulf de Merlay was destroyed
a certain monastery 2 of the observances of the Cistercians,
built in that year ; and very many others were harassed by
the most grievous oppressions.
And hence also that monastery which is set at the mouth
of the river Tyne, and which in English is called Tynemouth,
paid to the king of Scotland and his followers twenty-seven
marks of silver, to buy for itself and for those who resided
there peace in the present need. 3
But in the madness of this stormy time the noble monastery
of Hexham, although placed in midst of the course, and as
it were in the way, of that wicked army and the evils aforesaid,
and hemmed in by them on every side, yet through the marvellous
merits of the saints Andrew, the apostle, and Wilfrid,
1 J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 289-290 :
" King David followed with his
son and his forces, and remaining at Corbridge until after the Purification of
St. Mary [2nd February], failed not to disturb the affairs of the province."
2 " A later note says Newminster," the construction of which (near
Morpeth) J. of H. places at the end of his annal for 1138.
3 For a copy of the charter v. Dugdale, Monasticon, iii, 313. It is dated
on the day of St. Barnabas, [llth June,] 1138, and is granted for the souls
of David's relatives, for so long as the monks themselves " will keep peace
with us and our vassals."