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208 SCOTTISH ANNALS
nineteen brought back their hauberks ; because each had
abandoned as booty to the foe almost everything that he had.
And thus very great spoils were taken from his army, as well
of horses and arms and raiment as of very many other things.
Eustace Fitz John came with him, and met with the same
fate as he ; for, wounded, he scarce escaped with his life to his
castle. 1
RICHARD OF HEXHAM, BE GESTIS REGIS STEPHANI, IN
CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill, PP. 165-1 66. 2
Now the king of Scotland reinforced the siege of Carham
after he had got back Henry, his son, and had gathered again
his men, who had fled scattered from the battle not as allies
but rather as bitterest foes.
For the English and the Scots and the Picts and the rest of
the barbarians, wherever they chanced to meet one another,
whichever of them were in greater force either slaughtered and
wounded the others, or at the least robbed them : and thus by
the just judgment of God they were oppressed as much by their
own men as by strangers.
The king therefore, when he heard of it, inflicted heavy
penalties and fines upon his followers, and extorted an endless
sum of money from them and in addition he bound them to
;
him by oaths and hostages more strictly than he had ever done
before, to the effect that they would never again desert him in
battle.
JOHN OF WORCESTER, IN Fl. OF W., VOL. II, PP. 112-113. 3
And after his return, to comfort his men and console himself
the king of Scotland besieged with all his strength and with
many engines and diverse contrivances the castle which is called
Wark or Carham, and which belongs to Walter : Espec which
castle he had before besieged, but had been put to flight from it
the earl of Mellent.
by
1
I.e. to Alnwick ; supra. After the battle his castle of Maiton was
besieged ; R. of H., in Chr. of Ste., etc., iii, 165.
2 "
J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 294-295 : The ranks also of the Picts and
Scots themselves, when they came together in their retreat, strove with
disastrous enmity, and destroyed one another.
"
When therefore the king was received into his own realm he summoned
to him the Picts and Scots, and fined them of a great quantity of
and took hostages and oaths from them that in every struggle and
money ;
danger they would stand faithfully by him and for him."
3 Cf. R. of H., G.R.S., in Chr. of Ste., etc., iii, 166 :
" Thereafter he
attempted to take the town of Carham, with machines and new implements,
and in many other ways."