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328 SCOTTISH ANNALS
The bishopric of Brechin culdees.
;
The bishopric of Aberdeen.
The bishopric of Moray.
The priory of Urquhart ;
black monks of Dunfermline.
The abbacy of Kinloss ; white monks.
The bishopric of Ross ; culdees.
The bishopric of Glasgow ; secular canons.
The abbacy of St. Kinewin ;
l monks of Tiron.
The bishopric of Galloway : the abbacy of Whithorn, white
monks.
The bishopric of Dunblane ; culdees.
In lona, an abbacy ; culdees.
Total, twenty-two.
1209
ROGER WENDOVER, FLORES HISTORIARUM, VOL. II, p. 50,
S.A. 1209.2
How the king of the English made a treaty of friendship with
the king of Scots.
About these days John, king of the English, collected a
great army and directed his standards and arms against
Scotland. And coming into the province of the Northumbrians
1
Kilwinning (the church of St. Vinin.)
2
Cf. M.P., Chr. Maj., ii, 525; H.A., ii, 118-119. Fl. His., ii, 137-138.
"
G. of C., G.R., ii, 102-103 : And [John] sent letters and messengers
to the king of Scotland, a man of distinguished sanctity, commanding him
to restore to him three castles which he held of him in the borders of England
and Scotland, or to send him his son as
"
hostage.
And when the king of Scotland refused to carry out this command the
king of England wished with a great army to snatch from him what he could
not obtain by request, and to restore the castles aforesaid to his own domain.
" When therefore the king of England advanced with a numerous army to
Scotland, the knights who were in the army murmured, saying, '
Whither go
we ? What do we ? We are as pagans, without Christianity, without the
law of God. How then shall we be able to assail the holy man, that king of
Scotland ? Assuredly God will fight against us for him, for whom he has
done several miracles.'
" So when these and other murmurings of his soldiers had been reported
to the English king, lest haply the army should wholly forsake him, and forsake
him in the hour of combat, he commanded Geoffrey Fitz Peter prefect
of England and certain other earls to apply their whole minds to the peace
of Canterbury and of the English church, and to recall in peace to England
both the archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops and monks. For the
lord pope had given mandates to the bishops aforesaid to pronounce the
sentence of excommunication upon the person of the . . .
king.
"
And when the bishops aforesaid prepared their return to England, and
the king of England advanced with a great army to Scotland, providing for
the safety of his realm the king of Scotland wished rather to have peace than
war, and to make provision for himself and his subjects by discretion rather
than by war. So he sent his two daughters by trusty messengers to the