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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 233
was softened, and immediately submitted itself to a king of
so great benevolence and humility ; as if forgetting their
natural fierceness they submitted their necks to the laws
which the royal gentleness dictated, and received with gladness
the peace which till then they did not know. And hence
he seemed not undeservedly beloved by God and man ; by
God beloved indeed, because immediately in the beginning
of his reign he diligently practised the things which are of
God, in the building of churches, in the founding of monasteries,
which also he enriched with possessions and loaded
with honour.
For while he found three or four bishops only in the whole
Scottish kingdom, and the other churches wavering without
a pastor to the loss of both morals and property, when he
died he left nine, both of ancient bishoprics which he himself
restored and of new ones which he himself erected. And he
granted many great
monasteries in full to the brethren of
the Cluniac, Cistercian, Tironian, Aroensian, Premonstratensian,
Belvacensian orders. And among these he was as one
of themselves, both praising what was good, and hiding his
shame when anything arose that was less to be praised ;
impartial to all, anxious for all ; granting much, demanding
nothing.
sweet soul, whither hast thou ? gone whither hast thou
departed ? Where are those eyes full of pity and grace,
with which thou wert wont to rejoice with the joyous, and
to weep with the tearful ?
1 with my eyes have seen how once, when ready to go
a-hunting, his foot was placed in the stirrup and he wished
to mount his horse, yet at the voice of a poor man requesting
that an audience be given him he drew back his foot, left his
horse and returned to the hall, not to return on that day to
his purpose ; and kindly and patiently heard the case for
which he had been appealed to.
Moreover he was accustomed to sit at the entrance of the
royal hall, and diligently to hear the cases of poor men and
old women, who on certain days were called to him singly,
in whatever district he came to ;
and often with much labour
to satisfy each. For often they disputed with him, and he
with them, when he refused to take the person of a poor man
contrary to justice, and they refused to agree to the reason
which he gave.
Moreover, if it chanced that a priest, or a knight, or a
monk, or a man rich or poor, or a citizen or a stranger, or a