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212 SCOTTISH ANNALS
back to Carlisle before the same time limit all captive girls and
women whom they might have and restore them to liberty
there.
him most
[The Picts] also, and all the others, promised
faithfully that they would by no means violate churches thenceforth
; and that they would spare children and woman-kind, and
[men] who were disabled by weakness or age ; and that they
would thenceforth slay no one at all unless he opposed them.
The king also spoke with the prior of Hexham, who had
come thither with the legate, before [the prior] had appealed
to him, concerning the loss sustained by him and by his breth-
and deplored it much, and promised that he would cause
ren ;
the whole to be restored : and
moreover that he would compel
his men to compensate them for the wrong which had been done
to them and to their church, and for the slaying of their vassals. l
And this in great part he did. For both their money and
that of their vassals was almost wholly returned.
When thus these things had been done the legate departed
thence on the day of the festival of St. Michael, 2 and returned
by Hexham and Durham to south England, and related to
Stephen, king of England, and his subjects what he had effected
with David, king of Scotland, and his men.
RICHARD OF HEXHAM, GESTA REGIS STEPHANI, IN CHRONICLES
or STEPHEN, VOL. Ill, PP. 171-1 72. 3
And after a few days the king of Scotland learned from some
men who had come out of the town of Carham that they who
were in the town were now oppressed by the greatest scarcity
of food. And so he instructed that they should be more strictly
blockaded.
Nor was this report untrue for the ; knights who were in the
town had killed their horses through lack of food, and, after
preserving them in salt, had now for the most part eaten them.
But not even yet would they surrender the town. Indeed they
planned, when their food wholly failed, to go forth armed from
the castle and to break through the midst of the foe, defending
feast of St. Martin, and should give them their liberty ; and that none of
them should dare thenceforth to violate churches or to slaughter women,
boys or old men."
" 1
Cf. J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 298 : The legate, with his mind sufficiently
in sympathy with [the brethren of Hexham] over this wrong, remonstrated
with the king at Carlisle, and persuaded his royal mind to punish this out-
rage." 2 29th September. So J. of H., u.s., 298.
3 Cf. J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 291-292.