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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 251
one he kept with him, and the remaining two he sent to burn
the surrounding towns and to slay folk from the greatest to the
least, and to carry off
spoil.
And he himself with the part of the army which he had
chosen entered the town of Warkworth, and burned it, and slew
in it all whom he found there, men and women, great and
small and he made his ;
satellites break into the church of saint
Laurence which was there, and slay in it and in the house of
the priest of that town more than a hundred men, besides
women and children ; oh, sorrow ! Then
screaming of women, the crying of old men ;
dying, the despair of the [living]
! *
you might hear the
the groans of the
1174, July.
WILLIAM or NEWBURGH, HISTORIA RERUM ANGLICARUM, IN
CHRONICLES OF STEPHEN, ETC., VOL. I, PP. 183-185. 2
Of the capture of the king of Scots.
While things were thus in the northern parts of England
to butcher children, to disembowel women, and the like ; things which it is
horrible even to speak of.
"
So having let loose upon the wretched province the army of most cruel
marauders, while the barbarians raged in inhuman orgies the king himself
appeared to be idle, surrounded by a bodyguard of knights more honourable
and milder ;
and kept watch around the very strong castle called Alnwick,
lest perchance a force of knights should break out from it and molest the
marauders as they pillaged on all sides."
1 Sic lege. This sentence is from EL of H,, 261 j supra, s.a. 1138. So
in Hoved., ii, 57, 60.
2 Cf. B. of P., i, 66-67 (and Hoved., ii, 63) :
"
But God almighty avenged
on the same day the wrong and violence inflicted upon the church of his
martyr. For the leaders of the aforesaid army of Yorkshire, when they heard
that the king of Scotland had retreated from Prudhoe and had invested
Alnwick, and had so sent his army from him, followed him in haste ; and
as if secure
found him before Alnwick unawares, playing with his knights
and fearing nothing.
" For he, when he saw them coming afar, thought that they were earl
Duncan and those who were with him. But when they had come near to
him they fell upon him, and immediately captured him, and his knights left
him and fled."
Cf. G. of C., i, 249 :
" And upon the same Saturday on which the king
returned from Canterbury, William, king of Scotland, had sent his soldiers
to take spoil, keeping but few companions with him in the siege of the castle
of Alnwick. And when the army of York came upon him unexpectedly, and
he thought that they whom he had before him were friends returning with
spoil, he was suddenly hemmed in by them and captured. The rest of his
men who were present were slaughtered, or slipped away in flight."
Cf. T.W., Chr., in A.M., iv, 35-36.
"
Ann. of Winch., in A.M., ii, 61 : In this year the king of Scotland was
captured, in the war which took place between the father and son."
The capture is mentioned also by Ann. of Wav., in A.M., ii, 240 ; Ann .
of Dunst., in A.M., iii, 21 ; Ann. of Osn., in A.M., iv, 37. Fl. His., ii, 84, 85.
"
R.W., i, 100, gives an ornamental version :
. . . Battle was engaged