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278 SCOTTISH ANNALS
time in one battle ;
but have very seldom heard of four kings
having come to one conference in peace, and in peace having
returned.
Philip, king of the French, Henry, king of the English,
king Henry, son of the English king, William, the king of
Scots, came together in peace to a conference, and in peace
returned.
Philip, king of the French, by the frequent attestations
of those who dwelt in his palace, how Henry the English
king governed peacefully in its remotest parts his kingdom,
so widely spread, inhabited by so barbarous nations
as the Scots and Welsh ; that therefore he might follow in
the administration of his realm the example of so great a
prince was drawn the more willingly, by the common opinion
of those of his household, to place himself wholly under the
counsel of the aforesaid king and so it was done.
;
1181
BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. I,
pp. 277-278. i
Meanwhile, while the king of Scotland tarried with his
lord the king of England in Normandy, the son of William
Fitz Duncan, 2 Donald, who had very often claimed the king-
dom of Scotland, and had many a time made insidious incursions
into that kingdom, by a mandate of certain powerful
men of the kingdom of Scotland landed in Scotland with a
numerous armed host, wasting and burning as much of the
3 and he put the folk to flight, and slew
land as he reached ;
all whom he could take.
1181
BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRICI II, VOL. I,
p. 280.
Meanwhile the lord king came to Nottingham and on
;
his arrival there gathered to him . . . William, king of
Scotland, and the earls and barons of his province. . . .
1
Cf. Hoved., ii, 263.
2 Donald would seem to have been an illegitimate son. Cf. Stubbs, in
Hoved., ii, 263, note.
3 " And he despoiled it along the sea-coast " ; Hoved., u.s.