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248 SCOTTISH ANNALS
"73
WILLIAM or NEWBURGH, HISTORIA RERUM ANGLICARUM, IN
CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. I, PP. 177-178.
Moreover the king of Scots, having learned how greatly the
king of the English laboured in Normandy, entered English
territory with the hugest forces of his nation, barbarous and
thirsting for blood ; and surrounded with a siege the city of
Carlisle, and defiled the whole neighbouring province with
slaughter and rapine.
But learning that a great army approached from the south
of England he left the siege, and after a vast wasting of the
province
which is called Northumbria he retreated into his own
from before the face of our nobles.
And they arriving with military forces crossed the river
Tweed, which divides the English kingdom from the Scottish ;
and carried retribution into the enemy's land, no one opposing
them. l
But presently by the eager representation of messengers
they were recalled to the south of England ; yet the ferocity
of the king's enemy was checked through caution for a time
by necessary truce, since by the cunning
dissimulation of our
men what had been announced was still hid from him. 2
1173, Oct.
BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. I, p. 61. 3
And when this * was reported to Richard de Lucy and to
Humfrey de Bohun, the king's constable, who had set out with
a great army 5 to harry the land of the king of Scotland, and
who had already burned Berwick, a town of the king of Scot-
land, and the whole province around it, they took a truce *
1 "
Cf. R. de D., i, 376 : Therefore to repel so great and terrible an
injury, the nobles of Englanfl took arms with such speed as it could be done,
and suddenly compelled the king of Scotland to take to flight and retreat
into Scotland. And they followed his steps and wasted with fire the whole
of Lothian and ; whatever was found outside of walls was given to the English
as plunder. And so at the request of the king of Scots a truce was given
till the feast of St. Hilary [13th January], and the nobles returned with
victory." Cf. R.W., i, 95, " at the instance of the king of Scots." Cf. M.P.,
Chr. Maj., ii, 289 ; H.A., i, 380.
2 Robert, earl of Leicester, had landed with a fleet from Flanders.
3 Cf. Hoved., ii, 54.
4
I.e. the arrival of the earl of Leicester (on the 29th September, R. de D.,
i, 377,) and the capture of Hagenet, (13th October, R. de D., u.s.,) B. of P.,
5 "
i, 60.
Into Lothian," Hoved., u.s.
6 "
. . . They were greatly afraid. And they set all other matters
aside, and gave and took a truce, ..." Hoved., u.s.
Contrast with this the version of R. de D. and R.W., supra, note.