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256 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

also his most evil army to go away unhurt. For when they<br />

learned of the k<strong>in</strong>g's capture the barbarians at first were<br />

and presently, as if driven<br />

stunned, and desisted from the spoil ;<br />

by furies the sword ,<br />

which they had taken up aga<strong>in</strong>st their<br />

enemy and which was now drunken with <strong>in</strong>nocent blood they<br />

turned aga<strong>in</strong>st themselves.<br />

Now t<strong>here</strong> was <strong>in</strong> the same army a great number of English ;<br />

for the towns and burghs of the Scottish realm are known to be<br />

<strong>in</strong>habited by English.<br />

On the occasion t<strong>here</strong>fore of <strong>this</strong> opportunity the Scots declared<br />

their hatred aga<strong>in</strong>st them, <strong>in</strong>nate, though masked through<br />

fear of the k<strong>in</strong>g ;<br />

and as many as they fell upon they slew, the<br />

1<br />

rest who could escape flee<strong>in</strong>g back to the royal castles. . . .<br />

And the whole k<strong>in</strong>gdom of <strong>Scotland</strong> was disturbed God<br />

;<br />

most justly dispos<strong>in</strong>g, and measur<strong>in</strong>g aga<strong>in</strong> to the wicked <strong>in</strong><br />

the same measure as they themselves had meted : so to wit<br />

that they who had a little while before disturbed the quiet of a<br />

harmless nation, and had thirsted for English blood, received<br />

<strong>in</strong> the fairest manner retribution from themselves.<br />

1174<br />

BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. I,<br />

PP. 67-68.2<br />

But Utred, Fergus' son, and Gilbert his brother, when they<br />

heard that their lord the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> was taken, immediately<br />

returned with their Galwegians to their own lands, and<br />

at once expelled from Galloway all the bailiffs and guards whom<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> had set over them ; and all the English<br />

and French whom they could seize they slew ; and all the<br />

defences and castles which the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> had established<br />

<strong>in</strong> their land they besieged, captured and destroved, and slew<br />

all whom they took with<strong>in</strong> them.<br />

1174<br />

ROGER HOVEDEN, CHRONTCA, VOL. II, P. 63.<br />

And [Utred and Gilbert] very urgently besought the k<strong>in</strong>g<br />

father of England, and offered him very many gifts, that he<br />

would snatch them from the dom<strong>in</strong>ion of the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>,<br />

and reduce them to his empire.<br />

1 Here follows the account of the quarrel between Fergus and Utred of<br />

Galloway ; v. <strong>in</strong>fra.<br />

2 Cf'. Hoved., ii, 63.

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