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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 249
from the king of Scotland until the feast of St. Hilary ;
l and
they gave hostages on either side. And thus as quickly as he
could Humfrey de Bohun proceeded to Bury St. Edmunds,
awaiting
there the arrival of the earl of Leicester. 2
. MJ.
1174
BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. I,
pp. 64-66. 3
But when the feast of St. Hilary approached, Hugh, bishop
of Durham, held a conference between himself and the king of
4 Scotland at Ravendale and there took a truce from the ,
king
of Scotland until the close of Easter. 5
And for this truce he promised him three hundred marks
of silver from the lands of the barons of Northumbria. . . .
And immediately after the close of Easter, having first re-
ceived the three hundred marks of silver from the lands of the
barons of Northumbria, the king of Scotland moved forward 6
his army into Northumbria, and there through his Scots and
Galwegians acted execrably. 7
. . .
Meanwhile the king of Scotland sent his brother David to
Leicester, to be there against the king with the knights of the
8
earl of Leicester and then with his ;
army besieged Carlisle,
which Robert de Vaux had in keeping. And when for a few
days he had tarried there, he left there part of his army around
the castle and went in person with the remaining part of his
army through Northumbria, wasting the lands of the king and
of his barons and took with his arms the castle of ; Liddell,
which belonged to Nicholas de Estuteville and the castle of
;
1 13th January, 1174. So Hoved., R.W., u.s.
2 The battle of Forneham followed, on the 17th October ; K. de D., i,
377-378 (on the 16th, according to B. of P., i, 62.)
3 Of. Hoved., ii, 56-57, 60, 63.
4
apud Revedalam, B. of P. Hoved. has apud Revedene, ii, 57.
5 31st March.
6 "
Wasted Northumbria with a great army of Welsh and Scots," G.
of C., i, 247 ; ii, 81.
W. of N., H.R.A., in Chr. of Ste., etc., i, 181-182 :
"
Meanwhile the
king of Scots with an endless mob of his own nation and no small band of
mercenary horse and foot summoned from Flanders invaded English territories
and obtained two royal castles in Westmoreland, namely Brough and
Appleby, finding them unprepared and without garrisons. And going aside
thence he again determined to attack the town of Carlisle."
7 Here follows a passage upon the excesses of the Scottish army, taken
imperfectly from H. of H., 260-261 ; v. supra, s.a. 1138. So in Hoved., ii,
57. Cf. also G. of C., i, 247. We may note the stereotyped nature of these
accounts.
8 Cf. Hoved., ii, 57, and note.