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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 207
throw aside the banners by which we are marked out from the
others, and let us mix with the enemy as though we pursued
with them, until we outstrip them all and come as soon as
may be to my father's column, which I see afar off yielding to
necessity, but continuing still in its strength."
So saying he spurred his charger and rode through the midst
of the enemy, until having passed the foremost he reined in his
steed to a milder pace. And that you may know how confidently
he ruled his mind in adversity, and with what fore-
: thought while the rest of the knights cast the load of their
armour anywhere from them, the noble youth, patient of toil,
bore up till he came to a certain poor man's hut he called out
;
the poor man, undid his cuirass, and throwing it before the
man's feet said " Take it, that 1 what is a burden to me may
furnish thy need."
But the king had now advanced far, already proceeding
in terrible array, so that by taking some of his pursuers he very
greatly deterred the others who were pressing on. And thus
he came as far as to Carlisle and ; there, secure as to himself
but anxious for his son, he awaited for two days, doing
nought beside. At last on the third day he recovered his longlooked-for
son, safe and unhurt.
JOHN OF WORCESTER, IN Fl. OF W., VOL. II, PP. 111-112.
But our men, because they were on foot and had caused all
their horses to be removed to some distance, could not pursue
otherwise they would either have taken or put to
them long ;
death the king himself, and his son, and all who were with
him. 2
. . .
But the king's son came on foot with one knight only to
Carlisle, while his father scarce escaped through woods and
passes to . . .
Roxburgh.
Of two hundred mailed knights whom [David] had, only
1 Here the York MS. ends ; the remainder is from the 13th century
Cambridge MS. (Cf. Hewlett, ibid., liii, liv.)
2 Cf. J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 294 (after the escape of the king) :
"
Also
the army of York did not pursue them as they retired, but hastened each
man to return to his own."
A. of R., De S., in Chr. of Ste., etc., iii, 198-199 :
pursued long,
"
The English nobles
and slew both Scots and Galwegians, and took many of the
knights.
" A single knight fell on either side. The English leaders, however,
all came back safe and sound. . . ."
The brother of Ilbert de Lacy was the only knight slain on the English
side ; H. of H., 264 ; Hoved., i, 196 ; cf. R. de T., in Chr. of Ste., iv, 135>
R.W., E.H.S. ed., ii, 225 ; Ann. of Wav., in A.M., ii, 227.