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184 SCOTTISH ANNALS
JOHN OF HEXHAM, IN S. OF D., VOL. II,
P. 290.
Afterwards they pursued across the Tyne the provincials
who had taken refuge in the desert places, and in a place
which is called Tanfield they fell upon the multitude of the
whole province, peaceful and inapprehensive, slaughtered
them all, and bore away abundant spoil.
At last king [David] returned with his followers to his
own and in Lent ; l
king Stephen came at Wark with his
forces of knights into the land of the king of Scotland, and
instructed his men to slay and to pursue. 2
RICHARD OF HEXHAM, DE GESTIS REGIS STEPHANI, IN
CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill, p. 155. 3
And [David] turned aside to Carham, and afterwards
entered his own land and lay hid with his army in certain
desert places not far from Roxburgh, preparing a trap for
the king of England. For he hoped that [Stephen] would
stay in Roxburgh. And he had instructed its citizens to
receive him with friendship, as if they would keep faith with
him ; but also instructed them that when he should arrive
in the night with his army the host of soldiers also whom
he had placed in the town should come forth suddenly, and
with the citizens should join him, and all combining should
surround the unwary king of England and annihilate him
and all his men.
JOHN OF HEXHAM, IN S. OF D., VOL. II, PP. 290-291.
For [David] was on the watch for an occasion and for
favourable opportunities by night to fall upon him. Indeed
1 Ash Wednesday was the 16th February in 1138.
2 "
R. of H., G.R.S., in Chr. of Ste., etc., iii, 155 : Meanwhile about the
Purification of St. Mary [2nd February] Stephen, king of England, came with
an immense number of earls and barons, and with a very great army of horse
and of foot. And when the king of Scotland learned this he left Northumbria
with his army, and hastened to his own land."
"
H. of H., 261 : King Stephen therefore bestirring himself burned and
destroyed the southern parts of the kingdom of king David, while David
himself dared not meet him." So Hoved., i, 193 ; R. de T., in Chr. of Ste.,
etc., iv, 134 Ann. of ; Wav., in A.M., ii, 226. M.P., Chr. Maj., ii, 167 :
"
King Stephen therefore moved a great army into Scotland ; but before he
came there the king of Scots retired into his own, and took to impregnable
places. And the English king burned with fire the southern parts of Scot-
land, and so returned to England." Cf. M.P., H.A., i, 257.
3 "
Cf . J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 290 : But king David gathered himself and
his followers not far away within a certain swamp, quite small, and wholly
inaccessible on all sides, except by a certain narrow footpath ; and instructed
the citizens of Roxburgh boldly to receive the king of England within the
town, if he should come."