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342 SCOTTISH ANNALS
it as a sign that they were thenceforth bound in a hitherto
indissoluble and as it were consanguineal covenant, 1 and united
in good fortune and ill even to the sacrifice of. their lives.
So they challenged the king and the kingdom to battle, and
burned their own and their neighbours' houses, that the king
when he arrived with his army might not find lodging or food.
And they applied themselves to plundering and burning,
heaping injury upon injury.
And the king of Scotland hearing this collected his forces
and arraying his
from all sides, and advanced against them ;
warlike troops he attacked them in a struggle in the open.
And the balance of battle turned against the Galwegians, and
they were compelled to take to flight ; and the king's men
pursuing them slew many thousands of them by the edge of
the sword. And those whom the king or his supporters took
alive, he punished without ransom by an ignominious death.
But those who threw themselves upon his mercy he gave up to
chains and strict imprisonment until it should be discussed in
court what should be done with them but ; all, not without
reason, he disinherited with their posterity.
After obtaining this victory, the king magnified God, the
Lord of hosts. And following sound counsel he granted in
mandates to Roger de Quincy, earl of Winchester, and John de
Balliol, and William, son of the earl of Albemarle, that whereas
they had united to themselves in wedlock the three sisters,
they should now
namely the daughters of Alan of Galloway, 2
possess in peace the rights pertaining to them, the disturbance
being stilled.
Now this conflict of battle took place in the month of April,
the favour of Mars more nearly supporting the king of Scots.
1236
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. Ill, pp. 372-373,
S.A. 1236.
Of a council between the king of England and the king of Scotland.
Also in the same year king [Henry] following the advice of his
1 I.e. wed-brotherhood.
2 Helen, the eldest, wife of Roger de Quincy, had no son. She was buried
at Brackley ; M.P., Chr. Maj., v, 341. Her mother was perhaps daughter
of Ronald, king of the Isles. (Cf. Sc. Peer., iv, 141.)
Alan's elder daughter by prince David's eldest daughter was Christina,
the wife of William de Fortibus : they had no children (cf. infra, s.a. 1246) :
his younger was Devorgilla, wife of John de Balliol, the founder of a college
in Oxford. Their son was the king John Balliol.