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330 SCOTTISH ANNALS
121 2, Mar.
ROGER WENDOVER, FLORES HISTORIARUM, VOL. II, p. 60. l
How the English king presented the king of Scotland's son,
Alexander by name, with the belt of knighthood.
In the year of the Lord 1212 king John was in Windsor
at Christmas ;
2 and in the following Lent, on the Sunday 3
when Lcetare Jerusalem is sung, the same king presented with
the belt of knighthood Alexander, 4 the son and lawful heir
of the king of Scots, in London, at St. Bride's. 5
1212
ANNALS OF ST. EDMUNDS, IN MEMORIALS OF ST. EDMUND'S
ABBEY, VOL. II, p.
6
20.
A certain relative of the king of Scotland, by name Mac
William, with a great host landed in Scotland and harried
the chief part of the land, putting to death many of either
sex, [and of every] condition and : age and this, as it is said,
by the assent of certain magnates of Scotland.
King John sent many Brabantines to the aid of the king
of Scotland, their leader being a certain English noble.
1 Cf. M.P., Chr. Maj., ii, 533. Fl. His., ii, 141. Ann. of St. Edm., in
Mem. of St. Edm. Abb., ii, 20. J. of T., in Fl.of W., ii, 169 (s.a. 1211). R.
of C., 164. W. of C., ii, 206, infra. Ann. of Wore., in A.M., iv, 400.
2 25th December, 1211.
3
I.e. 4th March, the fourth Sunday in Lent. So Ann. of St. Edm., u.s. ;
"
and M.P., H.A., ii, 126. In Easter," say the Ann. of Wore., u.s.
4 "
In the fourteenth year of his age," W. of C., ii, 207-208, n. (Cf.
Chr. of Lan., 10; Chr. of Melr., 113.)
"
Ann. of St. Edm., ii, 20 : although small of stature, yet dignified
[procerus] and of amiable appearance."
5 "
At London," R. of C., u.s.
"
M.P., u.s., adds : At St. Bride's, a hostel of Clerkenwell at ; table,
"
while holding the feast." Ann. of St. Edm., u.s. : at the house of the
hostel ;
. . . and [Alexander] knighted twelve nobles of Scotland upon the
same day."
6
Cf. W. of C., ii, 206, s.a. 1212 :
"
Since William, king of Scots, who
was now of advanced age, was not able to pacify the interior districts of his
kingdom, disturbed by revolt, he fled to the king of the English and intrusted
to his care himself, and his kingdom, and the only son whom he had.
"
And [John] presented [the son] who was commended to him with the
belt of knighthood, and set out with an army to those parts ; and sending
his men through the interior of the kingdom he seized the leader of the revolt,
Cuthred, surnamed Mac William, and hanged him on the gallows.
" [Cuthred] was of the ancient line of Scottish kings ; and, supported
by the aid of Scots and Irish, had practised long hostility against the modern
kings, now in secret, now openly, as had also his father Donald.
"
For the more recent kings of Scots profess themselves to be rather
Frenchmen, both in race and in manners, language and culture ; and after
reducing the Scots to utter servitude, they admit only Frenchmen to their
friendship and service."