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308 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

1189, Dec.<br />

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

pp. 102-1 04. i<br />

In the same year, before k<strong>in</strong>g Richard went forth from<br />

England to Jerusalem, he quit-claimed William, k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots,<br />

from all subjection which Henry, k<strong>in</strong>g of England, his father,<br />

had extorted from him through his capture and made for<br />

;<br />

him his charter <strong>in</strong> <strong>this</strong> fashion :<br />

"<br />

Richard, by God's grace k<strong>in</strong>g of England, duke of Nor-<br />

mandy and Aquita<strong>in</strong>e, earl of Anjou, to the archbishops,<br />

bishops, abbots, earls and barons, justices, sheriffs and all<br />

his servants 2 3<br />

and vassals <strong>in</strong> all England, greet<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

" Know 4 that we have restored to our cous<strong>in</strong> William,<br />

k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots, 5 his castles of Roxburgh and Berwick as his<br />

[own], 6 to be possessed by him by <strong>here</strong>ditary right and by<br />

his heirs for ever.<br />

"<br />

Moreover we have freed him from all<br />

7<br />

conventions and<br />

compacts which my father k<strong>in</strong>g Henry of good memory 8 extorted<br />

from him by new charters, and by his : capture so to wit that<br />

he do to me 9<br />

fully and entirely what 10 Malcolm, k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots,<br />

his brother, did to our predecessors of right, and of right<br />

ought to have .done : and we shall do n to him all that our<br />

predecessors did of right to Malcolm aforesaid, and ought to<br />

have done ; namely [both <strong>in</strong> the matter of] 12 conduct when<br />

1<br />

Cf. Hoved., iii, 25-26, who gives the rubric :<br />

"<br />

Charter of Richard,<br />

k<strong>in</strong>g of England, concern<strong>in</strong>g the acquisition of the royal liberties of Scot-<br />

land."<br />

The orig<strong>in</strong>al charter is pr<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> Rymer, Fcedera, i, 64-65 (Records<br />

edition, i, 50.)<br />

Richard of Devizes, <strong>in</strong> Chr. of Ste., etc., iv, 386 :<br />

"<br />

From the under -<br />

k<strong>in</strong>gs of the Welsh and the Scots the k<strong>in</strong>g received surety that while he was<br />

on pilgrimage they would not cross their boundaries to England's hurt."<br />

Still, accord<strong>in</strong>g to R.W., i, 172 :<br />

" . . . The bishop of Durham had<br />

the justiciary from the great river Humber to the Scottish sea,"<br />

Firth of Forth.<br />

i.e. to the<br />

m<strong>in</strong>istris, B. of P., HoveJl. ; ballivis, Feed.<br />

" Of all England." So Hoved. ; not <strong>in</strong> Feed.<br />

" Our dearest cous<strong>in</strong>," Feed. ;<br />

Hoved.<br />

" By the same grace k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>," Feed. Hoved. assimilates the<br />

two ead<strong>in</strong>gs.<br />

propria, Feed., Hoved.<br />

"<br />

Conventions and," not <strong>in</strong> Feed.<br />

"<br />

Our good father Henry, k<strong>in</strong>g of England," Feed. Hoved. assimilates<br />

the two <strong>read</strong><strong>in</strong>gs.<br />

9 "<br />

To us," Feed., Hoved.<br />

10 "<br />

All that," Feed.<br />

11 " And that we do," Feed., Hoved.<br />

12 <strong>in</strong> conductu veniendo, B. of P., Hoved. et de conductu <strong>in</strong> veniendo,<br />

Feed.

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