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214 SCOTTISH ANNALS
castle of Slede by siege. And after this he advanced into Scot-
and since he conducted his cause there with Mars and
land ;
Vulcan as his leaders 1 the king of Scotland was compelled to
be reconciled with him.
So [Stephen] taking with him into England Henry, the son
of the king of Scots, besieged Ludlow; and there this Henry
was dragged from his horse by an iron hook, and almost captured
but the ;
king himself brilliantly rescued him from the
enemy.
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RICHARD or HEXHAM, DE GESTIS REGIS STEPHANI, IN
CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. Ill, pp. 177-178. 2
Now immediately after the oft-named legate [Alberic] had
departed from England messengers passed between the two
kings, and peace was made in this wise :
Stephen, king of England, granted to Henry, son of king
David of Scotland, along with all the lands which he had had
before, the earldom of Northumbria excepting two towns,
for these two he kept in
namely Newcastle and Bamborough ;
his own hands. But for these towns he was to give him cities
to their value in south England.
He instructed also that the barons who held of the earldom,
as many as would, should acknowledge their lands to be subject
to earl Henry and do him homage, saving the fealty which
they had sworn to himself. And this most of them did.
But the king of Scotland and Henry his son, with all their
subjects, thenceforth so long as they lived were to continue
at peace with and most loyal to king Stephen of England in all
things. And that he might be the surer of their loyalty they
were to give him as hostages the son of earl Gospatric, and the
Wav., in A.M., ii, 227. R.W., E.H.S. ed., ii, 225-226. M.P., Chr. Maj., ii,
170 ; H.A., 261-262.
1 "
Since he wasted everything with sword and fire," Hoved., u.s. But
contrast with this the account given by the Hexham chroniclers, infra.
2 "
Cf. J. of H., in S. of D., ii, 300 : And by the perseverance of the
queen of the English peace was concluded between the two kings ; Henry,
son of the king of Scotland, receiving at Durham the earldom of Northumbria."
Hoved., i, 198, s.a. 1140: "In the same year king Stephen gave
Northumbria to Henry, the son of David, king of Scots."
O.V., XIII, 19, in Migne, 188, 971-972 :" After prolonged warfare
between the two kings, waged by both sides fiercely to the injury of many,
legates of peace were divinely aroused and went between the two kings, who
were now weary of the loss and slaughter and constant trouble and labour ;
and restored them to peace."