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232 SCOTTISH ANNALS
And so the whole people of the land raised up Malcolm,
the son of earl Henry, king David's son ; and at [Scone,] l
as is the custom of that race, appointed the boy king, though
he was still but twelve years old, in the place of his grandfather
David.
And of this it may truly be said, "With their seed their
goods remain, and their grandchildren are a holy heritage." 2
And Northumbria was subject to his brother William. 3
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AlLRED OF RlEVAULX, EPISTOLA, IN TWYSDEN, COL. 347-350. 4
Of David, holy king of Scots.
The religious and pious king David has departed from
the world ;
and though he has found a place worthy of such
a soul, yet his death imposes grief upon us. For who would
not grieve that a man so necessary to the world has been
removed from humanity, save he who grudges to humanity
peace and progress ?
For this gentle king, just king, chaste king, humble king,
who may readily say how much benefit he has conferred on
human life whom ; gentleness had made lovable, justice
terrible, chastity fit, humility accessible ? And if all this
is adjudged most worthy of praise in any private person,
how much more so in a king, to whom power grants permission
for ? everything For inferiors readily favour his vices, eager
to imitate, quick to flatter; when even impunity prompts
boldness, and lust sharpens and inflames luxury.
For we know that he sought not the kingship, but abhorred
it, and did rather receive it because of outward necessity
than seize upon it greedily, conquered by the lust of reigning.
And hence he so abhorred those acts of homage 5 which are
offered by the Scottish nation in the manner of their fathers
upon the recent promotion of their kings, that he was with
difficulty compelled by the bishops to receive them.
And when exalted to the kingship he showed no pride in
his manners, no cruelty in his words, nothing dishonourable
in his deeds ; and hence the whole barbarity of that nation
in the Chr. of Hoi.,
1 In text apud Scotiam ; read apud Sconam ? (But
36, s.a. 1153, apud Scotiam means "in Scotland.")
2 For Ecclesiasticus, XLIV, 11.
3 A. of R. prays Henry II to protect David's ; grandsons Epis., in
Twysden, 369-370.
4 Ailred commends David's example to Henry of Anjou.
Cf. A. of R.'s Eulogium Davidis, in Pinkerton, 439-456.
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