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310 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

1190<br />

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

p. 146. 1<br />

In the same year David, brother of William, k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>,<br />

took to himself as wife [Matilda], the sister of Ranulf,<br />

earl of Chester.<br />

II92 2<br />

11933<br />

1193, Mar.<br />

GERVASE or CANTERBURY, CHRONICA, VOL. I, p. 515.<br />

And count John came secretly to England to gather<br />

satellites from the Welsh and Scots and oppose the men of<br />

Flanders, so that he might occupy England <strong>here</strong> and t<strong>here</strong>.<br />

. . . But the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong> would offer the count no<br />

help.<br />

1194<br />

ROGER HOVEDEN, CHRONICA, VOL. Ill, p. 237.<br />

And earl David, brother of the k<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>Scotland</strong>, and<br />

Ranulf, earl of Chester, and the earl of Ferrieres, with a great<br />

army besieged the castle of Nott<strong>in</strong>gham. 4<br />

H[amel<strong>in</strong>], earl of Warenne ; H[ugh] Bardolf butler ;<br />

; Stephen de Longchamp, our<br />

and many others, on the 5th day of December.<br />

"<br />

Given by the hand of W[illiam de Longchamp], elect of Ely, our<br />

chancellor, at Canterbury, <strong>in</strong> the first year of our reign." Feed.<br />

"<br />

the list of witnesses thus : These be<strong>in</strong>g wit-<br />

Hoved., iii, 126, gives<br />

nesses : Baldw<strong>in</strong>, archbishop of Canterbury, and Walter, archbishop of<br />

Rouen and ; bishops Hugh of Durham, and John of Norwich, and Hubert<br />

of Salisbury, and Hugh of L<strong>in</strong>coln, and Geoffrey of W<strong>in</strong>chester, and Gilbert<br />

of Rochester, and Reg<strong>in</strong>ald of Bath, and Hugh of Coventry, and William of<br />

Worcester ; and Eleanour, mother of the k<strong>in</strong>g ;<br />

brother of the k<strong>in</strong>g<br />

and John, earl of Morta<strong>in</strong>,<br />

; and many others."<br />

1 Of. Hoved., iii, 74.<br />

2 Under the 13th March, 1192, Hoved., iii, 172-174, repeats<br />

the bull<br />

ascribed above, s.a. 1188, to Clement III, <strong>here</strong> attribut<strong>in</strong>g it to Celest<strong>in</strong>e III :<br />

v. supra.<br />

3 To the deathbed of Bartholomew on Fame Island <strong>in</strong><br />

"<br />

1193 came also<br />

from Cold<strong>in</strong>gham certa<strong>in</strong> brethren whom he had loved with the preference<br />

of a special affection, that they might look upon the face of the father whom<br />

they were no more to see <strong>in</strong> <strong>this</strong> world, and receive from him a last exhortation<br />

and the lay<strong>in</strong>g on of holy hands." Vita Bartholomsei, <strong>in</strong> S. of D., i, 318.<br />

4 The siege was completed by the arrival of Richard.<br />

Among those present at Richard's council beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g on the 30th<br />

March, 1194, at Nott<strong>in</strong>gham, were " John, bishop of Whithorn ; earl David,<br />

brother of the k<strong>in</strong>g of Scots," Hoved., iii, 241.

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