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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 289
kingdom of Scotland. And the lord king received them with
honour, and kept them about him for several days and showed
himself sufficiently kind and friendly to them in order ;
that
in an affair of this kind he might influence their minds to
his aims. For at last he addressed the king of Scotland
himself in these words: "The many merits of thy prede-
cessors urge, and the nearness of our relationship especially
impels, and the affection of kindness compels me to receive
thee into fuller favour of love. Hence it is that we spoke
long ago of my niece, daughter of the duke of if Saxony, she
might be married to thee. And since the usage of Christian
law does not permit it, because of the nearness of consan-
guinity, I will give thee as wife a certain cousin of mine,
namely Ermengard, daughter of Richard, viscount of Beaumont,
the grandson L of my most beloved lord and grandfather
Henry, king of England, with the fulness of my love
and friendship."
Hearing these words of the lord king, William, king of
Scotland, took counsel with his friends, and at last agreed.
And thus surety was given on either side regarding these
agreements, and the lord king of England sent his messengers
for his cousin aforesaid.
1186
BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA HENRTCI II, VOL. I,
pp. 34S-349. 2
And after a few days, after receiving from the aforesaid
earls and barons of Scotland surety of their preserving faith
with him, and after taking hostages from them, he sent them
to their land, and instructed them to subdue Roland, son of
Utred, unless he would come to his court and stand before
the law for this, that contrary to [Henry's] prohibition and
to that of his justiciars he had entered with hostile force the
land of Gilbert Fergus' son, and of the other barons of Gallo-
way, and had occupied or conquered it, subjugating it to
himself.
And when the aforesaid Roland had heard this, he collected
a numerous host of horse and foot and obstructed the
entrances to Galloway and its roads to what extent he could,
the roads felled and half-hewn trees.
placing along
Without delay Henry, king of England, gathered a great
army from all provinces of England ; and coming to Carlisle
1
By an illegitimate daughter, Constance. 2 Cf. Hoved., ii, 309.
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