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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 307<br />

1189, Dec.<br />

BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, GESTA RICARDI, VOL. II, p.<br />

1<br />

98.<br />

In the same year <strong>in</strong> the month of December, at Canter-<br />

bury, on the day after <strong>this</strong> peace and agreement, 2<br />

William,<br />

k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots, and David his brother and Geoffrey, elect of<br />

3<br />

York, came to the k<strong>in</strong>g of England.<br />

And the k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots did him homage for the hold<strong>in</strong>g<br />

4<br />

of his dignities <strong>in</strong> England,<br />

cessors were accustomed to<br />

as the k<strong>in</strong>gs of Scots his<br />

hold them <strong>in</strong> the times<br />

prede-<br />

of the<br />

k<strong>in</strong>gs of England.<br />

And k<strong>in</strong>g Richard of England restored to him the castle<br />

of Roxburgh and the castle of Berwick, free and untrammelled ;<br />

and quit-claimed him and all his heirs for ever, on behalf of<br />

himself and the k<strong>in</strong>gs of England, from all allegiance and<br />

subjection for the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of <strong>Scotland</strong>.<br />

And for <strong>this</strong> redemption of his castles, and the quit-claim<strong>in</strong>g<br />

of fealty and allegiance for the k<strong>in</strong>gdom of <strong>Scotland</strong>, and to<br />

have the k<strong>in</strong>g's charter concern<strong>in</strong>g it, William k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots<br />

gave to Richard k<strong>in</strong>g of England ten thousand marks sterl<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

1 CL Hoved., iii, 25. R.W., i, 171. M.P., Chr. Maj., ii, 355; H.A., ii,<br />

13. Fl. His., ii, 103. J. of E., <strong>in</strong> Fl. of W., ii, 257-258. W. of N., <strong>in</strong> Chr.<br />

"<br />

of Ste., etc., i, 304 : By urgent mandates t<strong>here</strong>fore [Richard] summoned<br />

the k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots, who still laboured <strong>in</strong> his ancient sorrow for his castles,<br />

taken from him, as has been mentioned above, by the chance of war<br />

namely Roxburgh and Berwick. (For the third, which is called Maidens'<br />

his wish and counsel<br />

castle, he had received aga<strong>in</strong> under k<strong>in</strong>g Henry, when by<br />

he took a wife from foreign parts.)<br />

" He came t<strong>here</strong>fore to the k<strong>in</strong>g of the English, and barga<strong>in</strong>ed to give<br />

him ten thousand marks of silver for his resignation of the castles. And<br />

return<strong>in</strong>g to his own, he scraped together that sum from his subjects by the<br />

presence of his royal authority ; and paid it to the k<strong>in</strong>g of the English, and<br />

with much rejoic<strong>in</strong>g took his castles aga<strong>in</strong>."<br />

W. of N. makes no mention of release from subjection. Cf. also R. de<br />

" D.,<br />

ii, 72 : William, k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>, came to Canterbury, hav<strong>in</strong>g as leaders<br />

of the way the elect of York and the bishop of Durham, and did homage<br />

to the k<strong>in</strong>g ; and found favour <strong>in</strong> the eyes of the k<strong>in</strong>g, [promis<strong>in</strong>g] to<br />

pay ten thousand marks for <strong>this</strong>, to receive aga<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> his own power all his<br />

possessions ; also the allegiance of his vassals, which by agreement they had<br />

bound themselves to make to our k<strong>in</strong>g."<br />

2 Between archbishop Baldw<strong>in</strong> and the monks of Canterbury ; B. of P.,<br />

ii, 97-98, and notes. The date of <strong>this</strong> conciliation is given <strong>in</strong> Epistolse Cantuarienses,<br />

322-323, as the 1st December ; <strong>in</strong> R. de D., ii, 72, and G. of C.<br />

i, 475-481, as 29th November.<br />

3 Cf. G. of C., i, 474.<br />

4 " As Malcolm his brother held them," Hoved., iii, 2;~>.

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