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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 199
berks, to forget their helmets, to leave behind their shields ?
Let then your prudence see, king, what it is to have confi-
dence in these, which in a strait are more burden than defence.
We gained at Clitheroe the victory over mail-clad men : we
to-day shall use as shield the valour of our minds, and vanquish
these with spears."
After this was said, when the king seemed rather to incline
to the counsels of his knights, Malisse, earl of Strathearn, 1 was
"
Why is it, king, that thou relies t
greatly wroth, and said :
rather upon the will of Gauls, since none of them with their
"
arms to-day will advance before me, unarmed, in the battle ?
And Alan de Percy, base-born son of the great Alan, a
most vigorous knight, and in military matters highly distin-
guished, took these words ill ; and turning to the earl he said,
" A great word hast thou spoken, and one which for thy life
thou canst not make good this day."
Then the king, restraining both, lest a disturbance should
suddenly arise out of this altercation, yielded to the will of the
Galwegians.
The second line the king's son arranged with great wisdom ;
with himself the knights and archers, adding to their number
the Cumbrians and Teviotdalesmen.
Now he was a youth beautiful of face and handsome in
of such humility that he seemed lower than all,
so gentle, so lov-
appearance ;
of such authority that he was feared by all ;
able, so affable that he was beloved of all ;
so chaste in body, in
speech so sober, in all his ways so honourable, so zealous in
the church, so diligent in prayer so kind to the ;
poor, against
ill-doers so resolute, so submissive to priests and monks, that
he seemed as a king to simulate the monk, as a monk, the king.
He was moreover of such bravery that none in that army was
like him, either in attacking the enemy or in courageously re-
ceiving his attack ;
the repulse, unreadier to flee.
bolder than the rest in pursuit, keener for
To him Eustace Fitz John had joined himself, and was present
in his line, of the great nobles of England the most inti-
mate with the late king Henry ;
a man of the highest prudence,
and in secular matters of great resourcefulness. He had
left the English king because he had been seized by him in
court, contrary to ancestral custom, and had been forced to
give back the castles which king Henry had intrusted to
1 For a similar identification of an earl of Strathearn with the cause of
the Galwegians cf. infra, s.a. 1160.