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258 SCOTTISH ANNALS
condition, that the king should receive them in his hand, and
remove them from the servitude of the king of Scotland.
But the aforesaid messengers of the king of England refused
to make this compact with the Galwegians until they had
spoken with the king.
And when it had been shown to the king how Utred Fergus'
son, his cousin, had been slain, he refused to make any terms
with those Galwegians.
1174, Dec.
RALPH DE DICETO, IMAGINES HISTORIABUM, VOL. I, p. 396. l
William, king of Scots, held in chains in Normandy 2 re-
ceived some consolation at Falaise, being visited by his friends
in no small number. Following the counsel, therefore, of
the bishops and abbots, earls and barons of his kingdom, he
made peace with the English king in the region of Coutances,
at Valognes, on the sixth 3 before the Ides of December, in this
4
fashion. . . .
1174, Dec.
RALPH DE DICETO, IMAGINES HISTOEIARUM, VOL. I, p. 398,
S.A. 1175. 5
William, king of Scotland, gave hostages in Normandy, and
returned to England 6 on the third 7 before the Ides of Decem-
ber, being given over into sufficiently free keeping until the
castles about which agreement had been made, and as agreement
had been made, were according to faithful judgment given
up to the keeping of the king of the English.
1 Cf. W. of N., in Chr. of Ste., etc., i, 197, 197-198. R.W., i, 103-104
(s.a. 1175).
2 " Held in chains at Falaise," R.W., i, 103.
3 8th December. Cf. M.P., H.A., i, 392-393, s.a. 1175, Dec. 8.
William the Lion was excluded from the treaty of peace between Henry
and his sons, concluded on the 30th September, 1174 ; cf. B. of P., G.H., II,
"
i, 78 : But the prisoners who had made a compact with the lord king
before peace was made with the lord king, are outside that convention :
namely the king of Scotland, and the earl of Leicester, arid the earl of Chester,
and Ralph de Fougeres, and their hostages, and the hostages of other prisoners
whom he had before." So Hoved., ii, 68.
4 An abridgment of the treaty follows, pp. 396-397.
5
Cf. R.W., i, 104 (s.a. 1175).
8
According to J. of T., in Fl.of W., ii, 154, " William, king of Scotland,
taken by right of war, gave hostages and so returned from Normandy to
Scotland."
7 llth December.